Animals Is Inhumane, Ineffective, And Unethical

Imagine being poked with a needle while being experimented on, only to be tested for a new drug, without consent. Would the process of undergoing countless experiments create an acceptable effect while producing a new medicine that would save lives? This controversial topic is the basic ‘behind closed doors’ when it comes to animal testing and research. The permissible use of animals for testing is becoming more common as the marketing industry produces more products. Not only are animals being used for their

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.

Animals do not suffer from the same diseases that us humans have, for example curing heart failure induced by cutting a dogs aorta will not help to cure heart failure caused by a build-up of cholesterol in human arteries. We waste animal lives everyday and for what? The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has noted that 92 percent of all drugs that are shown to be safe and effective in animal tests fail in human trials because they don’t work or are dangerous. And of the small percentage of drugs approved for human use, half end up being relabeled because of side effects that were not identified in tests on animals. This makes it extremely dangerous to humans, because animal testing is not dependable, it can cause serious side effects to humans that weren’t an issue to the animals during testing.

A paper by researchers at Yale University titled “Where is the Evidence that Animal Research Benefits Humans?” looks at various studies in which animals were used and shows that there is a small amount of evidence proving that these tests were directly beneficial to humans. In animal testing, human diseases and toxicity symptoms are mimicked in the animal, and the results of the test are often not similar in humans and animals (Stokes).The Food and Drug Administration reported that over ninety percent of products deemed to be safe for animals failed the test when given to humans. Many prescription drugs, such as Oraflex, Suprol, and Selacryn, are intensely tested on animals, and once they are distributed for human use, the results are not the same, causing sickness or death (PETA). For example, in 2004, a drug called Vioxx, intended to help with arthritis, was tested to be safe on animals, yet when brought up for people to use, it caused over sixty thousand deaths in the United States alone. Animals are not humans; therefore, they are not made up in the same way as humans are. Although we share many of the same functions as animals, our genes, cells, and tissues differ (Stokes). If one were to take a human gene and insert it into a rat, the gene would function completely differently in the rat’s body, just as a chemical would function completely differently in a human or rat. A quote from Pandora Pound, a British medical journal states, “The claim that animal

Animal testing, as previously mentioned, is not as reliable as it is made out to be. It is extremely difficult to replicate the complexity of a disease in humans and translate it to an animal through artificial induce it into an animal. Even if the disease is successfully replicated animals often don't react the same to medications as humans do (Akhtar, 1). The best example of this is that of Thalidomide, which despite animal testing caused deformations in babies born from women who took this drug. After the incident, producers retested the drug on animals, still not finding said deformities in any of the animals it was tested on (Greek, 1). In the article “How Reliable is Animal Testing” Author C Ray Greek makes the statement “An animal that responds like humans to one medication will not necessarily respond the same way to another medicine”, which was the case in the incident with the Thalidomide. This oversight when testing animals can lead to unforeseen fatalities and did lead to the deformation and in many cases death of thousands of babies affected by Thalidomide (Greek, 1). Animal testing is not only unreliable but in some cases even harmful and often does not lead to break through discoveries in the scientific field. In the article “The Flaws and Human Harms of Animal Experimentation”

While opinions on the matter differ greatly, animal testing has been ongoing since at least 500 B.C., and frankly, old habits are harder to break than new ones (animal-testing.procon.org). Like the extensively tested mouse in the short story “Flowers for Algernon”, many creatures are experimented on daily. The mouse, Algernon, went through daily tests that displayed his artificially increased intelligence; that is, until his foreseen but nonetheless tempestuous plummet in health (Keyes, Flowers for Algernon). Animals should not be used for experimental research potentially harmful to them because it is unnecessary with our advanced technology, expensive, and testing is often followed by misled

Have you ever lost a loved one or even heard of someone passing away from a preventable disease that could’ve been stopped if the medicine to cure them was tested? About 21,000 people died around the world today from preventable illnesses. That number can easily be reduced to a much smaller number if doctors and scientists had the capability to test medications on animals. However, some argue that making an animal suffer is terrible, who would you rather want suffering? Your best friend? Or a random rat or mouse? The choice is yours. Animal testing should be used because, it can save lives, there is no other way to test the medicine properly and they help us to figure out what to change in the medicine so that it works the next time.

Tests that pass animals can have major effects on human’s population. In the UK 70,000 people die or are severely disabled by medical drugs that have passed animal tests(33 Reasons Why). This can show how unreliable it is and why it would not be good to use medicine that is not tested on humans. In America 106,000 people die from medical drugs (33 Reasons Why). This shows that more people in America trust this type of medication. Not only this but treatment tortures and kills animals, they can not only ruin human population but animal’s too.

According to the highly regarded sources like “British Medical Journal”, “The Journal of the American Medical Association, and “The New Scientist” shows that the prescribed animal safety tested are main causes of deaths in United States and UK. Another good example of the side effect of the animal testing is “TGN 1412”. Six men suffered from multiple organ failure in the testing of TGN 1412. This drug has been tested on rats and monkeys found safe to use on human. This incident proves animal experimentation is no guarantee for

Researchers test these medicines that have saved lives on animals but testing these animals to get cures is very cruel and inhumane. According to the Humane Society International, “Animals used in experiments are commonly subjected to force feeding, forced inhalation, food and water deprivation, prolonged periods of physical restraint, the infliction of burns and other wounds to study the healing process, the infliction of pain to study its effects and remedies, and "killing by carbon dioxide asphyxiation, neck-breaking, decapitation, or other means"(Humane Society International).Animals should not have to go through this type of pain and suffering to test products when other, more available ways of testing products exist. Also, laws do “protect” these animals while being tested,95% of animals are not protected during testing. Apparently the Animal Welfare Act does not protect all animals, “The AWA does not cover rats, mice, fish and birds, which comprise around 95% of the animals used in

According to NEAV, “The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has noted that 92 percent of all drugs that are shown to be safe and effective in animal tests fail in human trials because they don’t work or are dangerous.” The article goes on to explain that out of the 8 percent of drugs that do pass the human trials, half of them must be relabeled to account for unforeseen side effects on human subjects. The ramifications of these failing experiments cost companies millions of dollars. Furthermore, PETA explains that there are several drugs that are essential to human medicine that react quite negatively in animals. For example, aspirin kills cats and causes birth defects in several other animals including dogs and monkeys. If that drug had first been tested on cats, it never would have reached the market and provided the extensive relief it has to date. Also, animals in laboratories to be experimented upon are known to display understandably stressed behavior which jeopardizes the accuracy and credibility of the results. For example, in a NewScientist article by Ann Baldwin, the dangers of anxious animals are explained. The report writes that “rats housed in such conditions (laboratories) show an inflammatory response in their intestines accompanied by leaky blood vessels.” The article proceeds to examine the outcome of that response (along with others) and

For centuries animals have been using by researchers as tools for human medications. Researchers admit that they are getting closer to find the cure for the terminal illnesses like cancer or AIDS. But in fact the cure for cancer that researchers found by using mice, did not work in humans as it did in mice. Animals have different biological systems than humans do and they do not suffer from the diseases as the way humans do. Therefore the tests cannot be accurate. “The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has noted that 92 percent of all drugs that are shown to be safe and effective in animal tests fail in human trials because they don’t work or are dangerous. And of the small percentage that is approved for human use, half are relabeled because

Every year, millions of animals suffer through painful and unnecessary tests. Animals in laboratories all over the world live lives of deprivation, pain, isolation, and torture. Even though vast studies show that animal experimentation often lacks validity, leading to harmful human reactions, we still continue to use this method of experimentation, while many other less-expensive and more beneficial alternatives exist. Going beyond the issue of animal experimentation being morally wrong, this form of research is also hindering medical progress. Although the use of animals in laboratories is said to be necessary for the welfare and health of humans, people mistakenly believe that this immoral and unscientific method of experimentation is

It is shocking that researchers still use helpless animals to test new drugs and products, despite the fact that new medical advances can replace the need to do that. Defenseless animals are often taken away from their homes, and are often starved, shocked, or paralyzed with fear, just to test new products. After all of that, there often isn’t any medical benefits made to human society. Animal welfare acts were passed to limit what researchers can do to animals, but these acts are often not followed. Animal experimentation clearly should be discontinued because it is unethical, and unnecessary.

Testing and researching products on animals to see if they are safe for humans, is inhumane. Performing experiments on animals is not only inaccurate but it has caused cruel acts as well as unethical ones. In this paper I argue that testing on animals for research and experiments should be banned because there are multiple different ways to find out if the cure you have come up with will be effective or not.