Arguments Against Animal Experimentation

Animal testing is a rampant controversial issue in today’s society. Safety tests are conducted with a massive range of chemicals, including: new drugs, vaccines, cosmetics, household cleaners, and packing materials. Approximately 4 million animals have been/will be used in safety tests. Tom Regan, a philosophy professor at North Carolina State University states: “Animals have a basic moral right to respectful treatment… This inherent value is not respected when animals are reduced to being mere tools in a scientific experiment.” Animals that are used in these safety tests are subjected to tests that are often painful or cause permanent damage or death, and they never have the option of participating or not. There are plenty of reasons for understanding

How many animals have died or been severely injured when being experimented on? Animal testing could kill the cute fluffy things everyone calls animals. Additionally, The people that are testing and harming animals do not even own them so why do they even have rights. Also, after doing these terrible experiments, the scientist say animals are a lot like humans,. To summarize, animal testing is cruel and harmful to the test subjects.

Animal Research is another name for animal testing, where an estimated twenty-six (26) million animals are being tested on for medical, commercial, and biomedical purposes. Many people stand behind the use of animals, as it furthers scientific research. “The California Biomedical Research Association states that nearly every medical breakthrough in the last 100 years has resulted directly from research using animals” (). They increase functionality as certain animals, such as chimpanzees who share 99% of their DNA with humans, are genetically similar to humans (); making it “acceptable” to test on animals, as researching on humans is unethical. Research on animals has been around for at least 500 BC, but does all of this reasoning justify animal testing?

Commencing, contrasting viewpoints proclaim animal testing as an excellent way of medically progressing, for the sake of humanity. Scientists, researchers, and professors, claim that researching on animals is vital to understanding human health and diseases, for the emergence of new medicines and surgical techniques, and for preventing harm to humans from new medicines or vaccines. Their belief if that human lives would be put at jeopardy without animal experimentation. Biologist and professor Gerard Ian Evan (at Cambridge University) states that mice are “close enough” to humans, in the YouTube video “Fighting cancer: Animal research at Cambridge,” for justifying the availing of the mice, as 92% of the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) between people

Animal testing should not be allowed. What is animal testing you ask? Well, animal testing is a cruel way of testing medicine and drugs. When people test on animals, sometimes they die by side effects of the medicine. People test on animals to see if it does anything to the body, but their method has flaws. The animal’s body may not work the same as a human body, so there is no one hundred percent certainty that it won’t be bad for us if it wasn’t bad for the animal. The animal’s dna is not the same as a humans. Animal testing is inhumane.

Animal testing is abusive, ineffective, and should be outlawed. The use of animals in life sciences has been in laboratories for over a century. The American Medical Society endorses allowing testing of all animals to create new medicine or treatments for humans. Ever since animal testing has been put into action, many people have expressed their ethical and scientific unease about the experiments. Not only does the procedure cause the creature physical pain and psychological distress, but also it wastes resources.

Experimentation and testing on non-humans such as animals has been happening in the world for an extremely long time. There are many people in the world that agree and disagree with these actions. The animals used for testing are not treated as living creatures but as test subjects for a science experiment. Animal experimentation means the using of animals for research on a purpose of determining if it’s a safe drug or procedure to be used on humans. “Just under two-thirds of Americans (62%) believe that medical testing on animals is morally acceptable, while 32% feel it is morally wrong. This finding is not completely surprising -- medical testing can include researching cures for deadly diseases such as AIDS and cancer, and many people

Imagine living in a world where you can’t say “no”. Where people make decisions for you , test products and do experiments on you simply because you aren’t a human being. For many animals that is the case. Animals should not be tested because it's unethical. Testing on animals is bad science, We can't predict how the products will behave on people based on animal studies. Animals also do not get the same diseases we do, They can’t get major types of heart diseases or HIV. Lastly, because of animals testing more and more animals are starting to be endangered. Animal testing creates more problems than they solve.

Since you were born animal testing was used in your everyday products. The Pampers, Band-Aids, and Visine you purchased were all animal tested products. Every year, millions of animals go through painful experiments usually resulting in death. Normally, scientists use animals to determine and refine a variety of drugs, vaccines, cosmetics, and other chemicals. In the past 50 years, the United States used animal testing as a tool for growth among many industries. With 80 million animals painfully killed in U.S laboratories, animal experimentations has been a heavy controversial topic. Although people truly benefit from animal research, the inescapable pain, suffering, and death are not worth the benefits. Animals used in the name of research is wrong and needs to be stopped.

infected with diseases that they would never normally contract, tiny mice grow tumors as large as their own bodies, kittens are purposely blinded, rats are made to suffer seizures, and primates’ skulls are cut open and electrodes are implanted in them. Experimenters force-feed chemicals to animals, conduct repeated surgeries on them, implant wires in their brains, crush their spines, and much more. (PETA, Cruelty to Animals in Laboratories)

¨Over 100 million animals are burned, crippled, poisioned and abused in US labs every year¨ (¨11 Facts About Animal Testing¨). Imagine if that was someones animal getting tortured in labs just to test things such as beauty products and perfume. Animal testing was first suggested when, ¨Charles Darwin evolutionary theory in the mid 1850s also served to suggest that animals could serve as effective models to facilitate biological understanding in humans¨ (Murnaghan). But, ¨the enormous breakout came in 1922 when animal testing allowed for insulin¨ (Murnaghan). Animal testing should be banned because it is inhumane, most of the testing on animals does not benefit humans, and animals bodies work differently than humans.

Each year in the United States, nearly seventy million animals are killed and hurt in the name of science. “Animal testing is wrong and downright mean”. Innocent animals should not be treated harshly for the

There has always been a debate of whether or not animals should be used for testing and experiments. The discussions focus on the necessity of the procedures, the pain inflicted on the animals and if the actual results can be applicable for humans. "The suffering of animals used in medical research is not contested, although the scale of it often is. However, views diverge sharply on whether animal experimentation is part of good science and results in medical breakthroughs for humans, or whether such progress could have been achieved by other means" (Pycroft and Marston).

The practice of using animals as test subjects in scientific experiments: also known as animal testing has gone on for several decades and it does seem like it will be stopping anytime soon. Experimenting is one of the greatest tools scientists have: as if they fail, they will keep trying until eventually getting them right results. The thing about that matter is that they sacrifice animals to get the results; innocent animals that should not be killed or treated bad for human’s security. There are plenty of reasons to why animal testing should not be allowed for the sake of human research. For example, the torture of innocent animals is unethical as most of the so-called “test subjects” only see life in a laboratory. Next not only is it bad science but it is wasteful not just in animals but in money, time, and resources that could have been used elsewhere. Finally, it’s unnecessary to keep conducting experiments on animals since there are alternative ways to do so; testing methods that include human cells.

Animal testing; appealing or atrocious? Each year, more than 100 million animals are experimented on and killed in laboratories for medicinal training, classroom lessons, and chemical, drug, food, and cosmetics testing. Animals are not objects. Many Americans fight over the pros and cons of this two-sided argument. Although animal testing may further advance the medical field, scientific experimentation on animals is unfavorable among a large portion of the American population because these creatures are imperfect analogs for the human body, the process is wasteful in terms of money and the lives of the creatures, and the testing of innocent, guileless animals is now considered archaic by most.