Animal Testing Should be Banned

Every year millions of animals are burned, tortured and crippled in research that does not even result in safer products for humans. In fact, more than 90% of experimental drugs that are shown to be safe and effective in animals do not work for humans and are considered unsafe. Animal testing is barbaric; the small benefit that may be gained through testing in no way rights the torture these animals are put through. Not only is the testing harmful to the animals, it is extremely expensive. Millions of dollars a year are made by companies that provide the animals, but billions are spent on research that cannot even be used. In an effort to create data, we use animal testing results and try to apply it to the genetic makeup of humans, it doesn’t work. The physiology of humans is just too different to apply the information used in animal research. Research that involves the use of animals is inhumane and cruel, it incurs costs that are wasteful because the research is unsubstantiated and does not give useful information that can be applied to human benefit. There are better alternatives to this completely ineffective testing and waste of money, we should all voice our concerns and plead with law makers to ban testing on animals.

Animal testing is seemingly needed to test medicines, cosmetics, and other consumer products. Imagine poor helpless animals, trapped in cages, and having chemicals injected into their bodies. These animals just want to be free, but they are treated poorly so the scientists know if a product is safe or not for humans. But who is this really helping? The animals are being mistreated by being experimented on the humans behalf. Some of the experiments fail and end up killing the innocent animals. Animals should have the same rights humans have. They feel pain, they have emotions like humans, but they do not have the voice to say no. Even though some say that it is necessary to test on animals, there are better methods of testing consumer products.

Can you imagine your pet rabbit being stuffed into a steel cage that is only twice its size? Can you envision your rabbit’s eyes clamped open while different liquids, that can cause swelling and blindness if not treated properly, are dropped into their eyes with no relief or their backs being shaved and cut open for implants, then their mutilated bodies only studied for a few days before being executed? Experiments like these happen to millions of helpless animals all around the world every year. Although many people believe that testing on animals for safety and effectiveness is a necessary evil, medical testing on animals should be banned.

All types of animal testing should be banned by law. Treading away from the usual argument of animal cruelty, there are other equally notable reasons why a cat’s skull need not be smashed. The cost of animal testing per year is staggering, especially at a time where other sectors of our economy need more funding. There are other options that have proven to be more accurate and less expensive than traditional animal testing. Due to the biological differences in humans and animals used for testing, various results have had disastrous effects on humans when they did not for animals. Animals should not be used in experimental testing due to the extreme cost, other methods available, and flaws in experiment accuracy.

Should animals really be used for practicing medicine, cosmetics, and diseases that only inflict pain and suffering on them? Animal testing is controversial because scientists believe that the tests are doing a good deed to society by using animals to test products that may not be safe to humans, but animal testing is an inhuman practice and is animal abuse. The animals that are being used for the testing are the ones that do not cause harm to us and even help balance the ecosystem such as rats, rabbits, cats, snakes, cows, sheep, etc. Animals should not be used in this manner, there are much safer uses that can benefit humans that do not allow animals to suffer in such ways. Dogs and cats make great family house pets, cows provide us with dairy products, rabbits fertilize and graze the grass, and so on and so forth. So why do experimenters feel that it is okay to take them from their natural habitat and perform procedures that do not guarantee results?

In today’s cosmetics industry, many ordinary animals, such as dogs, cats, rabbits, and monkeys, are being subjected to animal testing on products that could potential benefit a person’s complexion. Such animals are often chosen, because their DNA is genetically very similar to humans, and thus could be used for testing. The extensive procedures to testing various merchandises could potentially harm the animals during the process, because there are multiple trials to see whether or not the product is safe to use on humans. Of these trials, many animals suffer from intensive allergic reactions that could have long-term affects on them or potentially kill them. American cosmetic industry today are harming innocent animals, specifically rabbits, through testing procedures and instead should be using human cells to make synthetic cells that could be tested on rather than on live animals.

As a society we have failed to notice, it’s everywhere. The animal testing footprint. Aeroguard, Chapstick, Michael Kors, Palmolive and Dettol: these common household brands all have the dark footprints of animal experimentation embedded into it.

Nearly every disease known to humans has been researched at some point in time using animals (Lee). As a matter of fact 100 million animals are used in chemical, food, cosmetic, and medical testing every year (Mendoza). Testing on animals can be cruel and inhumane. Many of the test done to animals have already been performed. Despite animal testing alternatives many researchers still use animals in research today. Animals should not be used in research.

Animals are the main experiment testers. They are seen as the most similar organism next to humans. With the same bodily functions as humans, animals are viewed as the perfect option for testing out new medicines, food, perfumes, makeup and even household products. Or are they? Animal testing is a very controversial topic. While it ensures the safety of product lines, the testing on animals is inhumane and cruel and there are alternative methods. In this paper, I will discuss the reason animals are the chosen factor in experiments, what is done to them during the experiments, and other ways to approach the testing of products while ensuring safety of the public.

Locked in a small cage with restraints holding their limbs down. While scientists pour burning chemicals onto the poor and innocent creatures. They scream for help in pain but no one will come to their rescue. The Humane Society estimates thousands of animal deaths a year in the United States alone that are caused by cosmetic animal testing. Animals typically used in this specific type of testing are guinea pigs, rats, mice, and rabbits. Today, we have technology that can replace jobs yet, we still use primitive procedures that no longer cater the best to our current society. Cosmetic animal testing is not only harmful but it is also ineffective Animal testing is unethical and unnecessary, cruel and should no longer continue.

According to this website called Animal testing procon.org it tells us how there is 95% of our animals being used for scientific experiments. The animals were not protected in any way by the federal Animal Welfare Act, which will exclude any birds, rats and or even mice bred for research. There were cold blooded animals such as reptiles and or even fish from our oceans. I feel as if Animals should not be tested for scientific experiments because, well, why would people want to be so cruel to animals that can not even speak they did nothing to do deserve such cruelness upon themselves. What I am trying to say is I speak for the animals I love animals and their habitats I would never want to go ruin their precious home or even them. Basically if you have ever seen the lorax, the lorax is trying to protect him and his home, so why ruin a animal that has done no harm in the world. Why do scientific experiments on them when you can do it to someone that is your size.I feel as if Animals should not be used for scientific testing. They are basically living things they do nothing they love their home and themselves. Instead we should use technology. It does no harm to the animals or their habitats of where they live.

The use of animals in research has created a diverse range of attitudes, as some individuals support the use of animals in research and others are against it. Sometimes people do not have enough background knowledge on this topic to be involved in a discussion of animal testing. Animal testing dates back to around 400 years ago, when one of the first famous researchers William Harvey was curious to discover how blood circulates around the body. The modern era of animal testing began around 150 years ago, although the conditions were quite different; there were no painkillers as the animals suffered a great deal (Understanding Animal Research 2013).

Every year millions of animals are tested for research or experiments and end up dying in the process or are put to death after the tests. Animals like cats, dogs, rabbits, mice, monkeys and more. These animals are treated as test subjects so scientists can see if certain products are safe for humans to use. Scientists test many things on these animals from chemicals to make up products. They also use the animals to practice medical procedures on and they inject drugs into the animals to find out what sort of reaction they might have resulting in pain and even death to the animals. Which is unnecessary, because humans and animals are biologically different so the experiments aren’t really accurate and there are alternative methods that don’t require animal testing. Animal testing should be banned, because millions of animals suffer and even die every year in an inhumane way, there are alternative testing methods and laws like the Animal Welfare Act are not supportive enough.

Have you ever been shopping and picked up an item at the drugstore and thought about whether or not the product was tested on animals? You might be contributing to the market of animal experimentation without even knowing it. Each year millions of animals are killed in the U.S. laboratories for biology lessons, medical training, curiosity-driven experimentation, and chemical, drug, food, and cosmetics testing. People have debated whether animal testing is cruelty or science for many years, and it still seems to be a hot topic of debate. But with the experiments that are conducted being so unreliable, expensive and cruel to animals, animal experimentation should be banned in the United States.

In addition, in extreme cases, which are becoming to be more common, animals are put to death from animal testing. “Each year, more than 100 million animals...are killed in U.S. laboratories for biology lessons, medical training, curiosity-driven experimentation, and chemical, drug, food, and cosmetics testing” (“Experiments on Animals”). The injuries from animal testing were already horrible to hear, it is truly appalling to hear how millions of animals are actually put to death from animal experimentation. Also, the millions of animal deaths are definitely not good in the means of animal population of a species and in future lead to animal extinction of a population, in which loosing animal species is proving how humans are the main causes to the extinction of animals.