ANIMAL TESTING INTRODUCTION Animals have been used in scientific experiments for a long time to be able to understand and define how human body works and to cure certain diseases. However, most of the people are in disagreement to use animals in scientific experiments. They suggest using humans as test subjects with the drug trials. The first reason why humans should be used for drugs trials is that animals are living creatures that have rights to reject although they cannot speak in the human language. Moreover, they suffer and there are even people who try to animate their feelings by crying and trying to be like animals. Since people choose to and to be volunteered to be experimented on, it is not ethical to use animals instead. The …show more content…
LITERATURE REVIEW In today’s world, people always try to have the best, and this makes safety an important issue. Both medical and non-medical products need to be approved in terms of safety before it is put on the market (Galson, 2005). That’s why products such as cosmetics and drugs need to be tested on animals. However, researchers showed that there are many physiological differences between animals and human beings (“The Pharmaceutical Racket,” n.d.). For example, sweet almond which is healthy for human beings is deadly for foxes, and drugs which have the label of safety such as Pronap & Plaxin, which is a tranquilizer, killed many babies (“The Pharmaceutical Racket,” n.d.). Due to these false results, it is being questioned that what the drawbacks of using animal on scientific experiments are. Vivisection can be called as the process where animals are tortured in the labs for the good of humankind (“Question Vivisection,” n.d.). Is it not ridiculous that humans who are fighting for freedom keep holding animals in the cages? According to NEAVS, which is the acronym for New England Anti-Vivisection Society, over 25 millions of animals are used in biomedical experimentation, product and cosmetic testing, and science education every year in the United States of America (“Harm and Suffering,” n.d.). For the sake of research and testing, animals are exposed to some experiments such as
Picture yourself in a testing laboratory; needles, drugs, and knives pointed in your direction with you having no idea what’s going on around you, this is how animals everyday are treated, we have to stop this now! Millions of animals are killed in laboratories everyday with no chance to object to what the testers are about to do to them. Animals feel as much pain as humans do so why does it make it okay to test on them when they are so alike to humans? Every day people test makeup, shampoos, and medicines on animals, the strange thing is that animals have different skin, hair, and internal organs than humans have. Since the animals have different internal organs than humans only 5-25% of the testing results are agreeable between animals
The harmful use of animals in experiments is not only cruel and inhumane but also often ineffective. Animals do not get many of the human diseases that people do, such as major types of heart disease, many types of cancer, HIV, Parkinson’s disease, or schizophrenia. There have been past occasions where drugs passed on animals weren’t even safe. There is no excuse for animal testing in today’s techy world, there are now many alternatives for animal testing that would put an end to the pain and suffering endured by these innocent animals during human testing.
Animal testing has been around since the third and fourth centuries BC, when it was performed by Greek philosopher-physicians. However, it is unknown when people began to question this process. In today’s society, the idea of testing products on animals has become more and more controversial with numerous groups being created and becoming even more vocal. While people will decide for themselves where they stand in this argument, I would hope that most would agree that animal abuse is wrong. So, if animal abuse is wrong and animal testing can be, and usually is, much more painful and severe than animal abuse; why can’t people agree on the subject of animal testing? However, the argument for animal testing is also legitimate. Animal testing
Animal testing, also known as animal research or experimentation refers to the use of non-human animals to conduct experiments which seek to control certain variables that have the potential to impact the biological systems or behaviors under study. The most commonly used animals are usually mice, cats, rats, dogs and primates. More than 20 million animals are usually subjected to food, drugs, chemical and cosmetic testing each year in the United States alone (Sharma et al, p.1). These animals usually suffer and die in the cruelest of ways despite the fact that there exist more modern non-animal tests which have been found out to save time, money and with more educational value. This essay explains why animal testing is bad and provides
Did you know that the shampoo you use was probably forced down the throat of a rabbit, cat, or maybe even a dog? Each year, millions of animals are used to test how safe and effective products, such as cosmetics, are. They are genetically modified, force-fed harmful chemicals, blinded, scalded, and maimed. How could one not object to this awful cruelty? Animal testing should be banned because it is cruel, unnecessary, inaccurate, and expensive.
We cannot overlook the factor that this process of using animals in experiments against their will subjects them to a lot of stress which in hindsight could tamper with the results making them less accurate and unreliable. As found on the Food and Drug Administration, Non-human creatures cannot contract the HIV virus yet it is considered deadly in humans. A medication that appeared promising in treating rhesus macaques in animals was also ineffective in humans. Animal experiments should stop because alternatives have been widely discovered (Christopher 40). In addition to this, scientists have developed a lot more in the campaign to terminate use of animals in experiments (Hackmann 40). Plastic models and computers can effectively substitute use of animals in experiments. In vitro examination: IC50 assesses how much chemicals can be to cells hence can replace LC50 examination that oversees a chemical given to a number of animals to determine what amount is able to kill more than half of the all population of the animals. Another method is the FDA, which is a technique that provides credible information on how humans can be widely affected by new drugs (Food and Drug Administration 77).
Recently, the problem of animal testing has aroused people’s concern. Between twenty-five and fifty million animals are killed in American laboratories each year, and these animals include mice, rats, cats, monkeys and son on. Animal testing is one of the traditional approaches to studying how human and animal bodies work, and it is also frequently used to test medicine and chemicals. For example, a lot of medical students do animal testing to help them learn more about the medical science and finish their assignments. Since the technology has developed, there are all kinds of drugs and chemicals that are manufactured by humans, and animals are increasingly used to make sure the drugs and chemicals work, especially when a new disease is
Should people hurt animals? Should people kill animals for human drugs? These are questions citizens need to ask themselves everyday. Many animals are being hurt or killed every year because scientists are testing on them. Animals do not deserve this abuse just for human gain. Animal testing is wrong and should be stopped, because animals are being hurt and mistreated and the scientists are not using new methods, and developing bad drugs. Approximately 23 million animals are being tested each year, according to the Office of Technology Assessment. This is not ok, the madness needs to stop.
Animal testing goes back to the Greeks in 4th and 3rd centuries, with Aristotle and Erasistratus among the first to perform experiments on living animals. Using birds, mice, eels, snails, and flies early physicist conducted experiments trying to discover cures for illness. In the 18th century a physicist by the name of Antoine Lavoisier, used a guinea pig in a calorimeter to demonstrate that respiration was a form of combustion. Later on Luigi Galvani demonstrated that electricity applied to a dead, dissected, frog’s leg muscle caused it to twitch. It wasn’t until the 1880’s and 1890’s that physicists made medical advances, Emil von Behring isolated the diphtheria toxin and demonstrated its effect in guinea pigs. He went to demonstrate immunity
To begin, one of the most important reasons why animal testing should be unacceptable, is because the human species is very different compared to any other animal; therefore, they make unreliable test subjects. For example, according to PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences), they found that nearly 150 clinical trials [human tests] of treatments, to reduce inflammation in critically ill patients, have been undertaken, and all of them failed, despite all the animal tests being successful (Should Animals Be Used for
Millions of animals in our generation today are being tested for human products. Experimentation causes many animals to fall vile with disease and having no choice but to be experimented on. Animal experimentation should be banned all over the United States. Not only is it cruel and inhuman method of research, but challengers view it as an essential evil to test on animals.
Animal experimentation has been a controversial issue for many years. Over tens of millions of animals such as rodents, birds, apes, and rabbits are utilized in labs to test the toxicity of chemicals used in shampoos, cosmetics, vaccines, and much more. In this essay, I will talk about the types of experiments, the scientific break throughs of those tests, and lastly debate whether or not the act is morally justified.
Throughout the world, right under the human nose, millions of innocent and helpless, animals are being tortured and murdered. They are used for product testing as well as to put into products without consumer knowledge. These defenseless animals are deprived of respect and are victimized to an extent where it becomes unbearable to watch. There are many organizations that are trying to fight for animal rights. However, these organizations struggle with is because there is no legislation in the United States to combat animal testing. Even though it is not against United States regulations, animal testing should be outlawed because of its harmful and cruel effects.
Humans are animals, and as such it is morally wrong to use them to test pharmaceuticals intended for use by humans. Those who support animal experimentation believe it is a necessary evil, in part due to the false information put out by the media. The so-called benefits of animal testing have not helped humans for years, yet in many countries the law still requires researchers use animals to test their medications. In fact, although alternatives have been found, few steps have been taken to put an end to animal experimentation. Unfortunately, the way the activists present their argument that is one main reason they are not taken seriously, even though their points are valid. Animal testing is morally wrong and has not benefited humans as the media has claimed, but there are alternatives, such as new technology, if only humans would take the first step.
Animal testing has been around for centuries. It started out for curiosity reasons; people wanted to learn more about the internal construction of the body and animals were convenient—more so than humans. When it comes down to it, the word animal testing and animal research are interchangeable, moreover, both relate to the same meaning: the use of animals in scientific experiments. One of the scientists that made the first major use with animal testing was Louis Pasteur in the finding of milk pasteurization. However, while his conclusions were beneficial as a result from animal testing,that was back in 1880 and a considerable amount of technology has advanced since then. Biomedical research in the past has benefited from animal testing, but now, in 2016, animal research is concluded to be cost ineffective, increasingly inaccurate, and most importantly, how inhumane animal testing really is. Technological advances have happened since the late 1800s and hologram guided surgeries have become available, as well as microfluidic chip testing—all which can help provide a more accurate version of testing than we have been able to do in the past. Animal research has been talked about again and again, only this time, medical advances are finally becoming better and more useful than testing on animals. We must use this information and once and for all move towards the advancement in limiting the number of animals used in testing, all while reaching for those alternatives in