Ayten Pamuk
K. Goldsmith
Exhibition
28 February 2017
Killing for Living
“The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated’’ (“Mahatma Gandhi Quotes”). Right now, thousands of mice, rats, rabbits, primates, cats, dogs, and many other animals are living in barren cages in laboratories across the country. They scream in pain, suffer from frustration, live in loneliness, and want to be free. They can feel pain and suffer unlike what some people think (“Animals Used in Education”). They are not giving their consent or any other form of approval for the experiments to be done on them. İf we want to be a great nation, then we need to change the way we treat animals and stop animal testing because it is inhumane and
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turtles are smashed on the head with hammers and have holes drilled into their shells so that their hearts can be viewed and manipulated. Frogs’ brains are destroyed when pins are stuck through their skulls so that students can cut them open and stimulate their exposed muscles with electricity” (“Animals Used in Education”). As shown in Figure 1 animals are getting electrocuted for experiments. Animals are getting hurt and suffering because of scientific testing as well as trainings and exercises.
Figure 1
(“Animals Used in Education”)
Animals are being used to predict toxicity, corrosivity, and other safety procedures as well as the effects of a new product, chemicals, medical devices, and new drugs.
“... Animal-based (in vivo) toxicity testing, which causes severe suffering, distress, and death for the animals used, is typically performed without anesthesia or analgesics…” (“Animals in Science”). People use anesthesia and many other drugs even in a minor procedure and expect animals to bare the most painful tests, they are no different than us and can feel pain. Dr. Gerhard Zbinden, one of the world 's leading toxicologists, described a standard in vivo test as “a ritual mass execution of animals” (“Animals in Science”). Testing one drug on this many animal and not getting enough results to go to human trials is not ethic and questionable, if any, scientific value. Testing for drugs are expensive as well as being
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.
At this moment, tens of millions of animals, such as rats, rabbits, monkeys, cats, and dogs, plus more, are being locked inside cages in labs all throughout the country due to being used in horrific experiments. These animal experiments are used to develop and enhance new drugs and to test the safety of products before being used on humans. Many of these experiments inflict pain to the animals and decrease their satisfactory of life. More than a hundred million animals suffer and die every year in the U.S. from medical education and clinical experiments, as well as merciless chemical, drug, food, and cosmetic tests. Animals also suffer and die in classroom biology experiments and dissection.
Have you ever wondered why animals are used in experimentation? Each year over 100 million are killed due to experiments for biology lessons, medical training, chemical, drug, food, cosmetic testing, and curiosity driven experimentation. The better question is why? Why use animal when there are many alternatives. Animals may not be able to speak up for themselves but humans have a voice for them. Many people have participated in protest, taken surveys, and created organizations to protect animals from the cruelty.
In animal testing, animals often face depressing conditions in which they themselves turn into a shell of their former selves. The statistics of animal testing reveal what is really happening behind the scenes in animal testing, and the completely unacceptable ways that scientists are in using animals in their experiments. The little differences in humans and animals when it comes to livelihood and communication shows that animals aren’t so different from us after us. Due to this, animals should be given more rights and granted some of the same privileges as humans. And maybe one day, more constitutions will pledge to protect the natural foundations for life for animals as well as
due to cruel chemical, drug, food, and cosmetics tests as well as in medical training exercises and curiosity-driven medical experiments at universities. Even though modern non-animal tests have been repeatedly shown to have more educational value, save teachers time, and save schools money, animals still suffer and die in classroom biology experiments and dissection. Examples of these horrid tests include forcing mice and rats to inhale toxic fumes, force-feeding dogs pesticides, and dripping corrosive chemicals into rabbits’ sensitive eyes. Even if a product harms animals, it can still be marketed to consumers. Contrarily, just because a product was shown to be safe in animals does not guarantee that it will be safe to use in humans. An exact number isn’t available because mice, rats, birds, and cold-blooded animals, who make up more than 99 percent of animals used in experiments, are not covered by even the minimal protections of the Animal Welfare Act and therefore go uncounted.
Everyday animals are being locked up in cages and are being tested on. Animals in laboratories do not provide reliable results in human beings, and are going through cruel and inhumane tests. There are also alternative methods that replace the need for the animals. Testing animals has contributed to many life savings cures and treatments, along with animals themselves benefiting from the results of the testing. Animals are also similar to humans in many ways and are appropriate test subjects. Animal testing needs to stop because every year 100 million animals die. The animals have no say in this treatment being done to them. Animals cannot be tested in a variety of human procedures despite what the benefits are.
About 1,027,450 animals were used for testing in 2007 (Evans). Animal experimentation is when animals are used to test the safety of products. These products range from cosmetics to medication and anatomy. Many animals are used for testing such as dogs, monkeys, rats, birds, and mice. Some people believe that these testings should go on because it gives essential information about humans (“Animal Experimentation”). Those who are familiar with animal experimentation will have a better idea about all the ways that animals testing is unneeded. They will know how this process is abusive and cruel to animals. People will also know about how there are now new technologies that could act as alternatives. Animal Experimentation should stop because animal testing is unnecessary, it's cruel to animals, and there are alternatives.
“Given the climate of poor regulatory oversight, many animals are also abused, neglected, and harmed in ways that violate the law”( “Animal Testing and the Law” ) , revealing the horrific underlying effect of animal testing that society does not want to display to the public. Not to mention, many animals are unprotected by the law and forced against their will to undergo a horrid experience—“legal tests include burning, poisoning, mutilating…, and dissecting without painkillers”( “Animal Testing and the Law” ). Many animals are caged behind closed doors that the public cannot see because scientists who use these techniques do not want to upset the public; however, the law is not forcefully used to protect animals in a harmful environment. Furthermore, animals have no voice to establish a strong faith for their future; humans determine the fate and well-being of the animals. Animal Welfare Act, a Federal law that addresses the standard of care animals receive at research facilities, excludes about 95 percent of animals used in research and has low protection for the rest ( “ Animal Testing and the Law” ). Precious animals used in experimental research should be protected fully, if animals are going to be used, otherwise animal testing should be banned if the laws cannot fulfill their duty of protection because of the horrible experiments that may take place. “M.A. Fox
high schools each year (Parks 37). Animals are dissected in order to teach students about the anatomy of living creatures. “Students gain an understanding of the animal's’ internal structures, as well as how their tissues and organs are interrelated.” (Parks 39). Animal’s lungs are inflated to show how lungs work, pig’s hearts are dissected to study the circulatory system, and impregnated rats are dissected to learn about their reproductive systems (Parks 40). Not only does dissection harm animals, it also harms the environment and the students that partake in the activity. When animals are taking out of their natural habitat it affects “ecological balance” and prevents “bio-diversity”(Animals Used 9). The chemicals that are used to preserve the animals or “specimens” can be harmful to students and cause them to be ill (Animals Used 11). Nine states have created a “choice-in-dissection” law that allows students to use an alternative method of study without having to dissect, and they receive no deduction (Parks
“An estimated 26 million animals are used every year in the united states for scientific and commercial testing” (ProCon.org). We are rapidly using up the earth’s supply of small animals. “A 2011 poll of nearly 1,000 biomedical scientists conducted by the science journal Nature found that more than 90% agreed that the use of animals in research is essential (ProCon.org). Right now, millions of mice, rats, rabbits, cats, dogs, and other animals are locked up in cages and are getting killed for scientific tests to create products and medicines. Thus, animal testing is cruel and inhumane to be experimenting on animals, there are alternative methods available to researchers to replace animal testing, and that animals are so different from human beings that research on animals often yields irrelevant results.
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
Imagine living in a prison, where you don't get to choose what to eat and not know if you will survive or not. You see your friends one by one getting experimented and hear their bloodcurdling screams everyday, not knowing if you will be next. This is the life of an animal in a laboratory. Some may think this doesn't really happen, but this is a very real issue that needs to stop. Every year in the U.S., over 25 million animals are used in biomedical and product testing. Too improve our awareness of the animal cruelty around us, we have to stop being careless, be more fair with animals, and put ourselves into perspective of the animals.
For years, there has been a debate regarding the use of animals in medical testing for the sole benefit of humans. Many people believe that testing on nonhuman animals solve the many issues that humans face, but most of the time animals are exploited and put through painful experimental processes. The purpose of this paper is to examine the possible alternatives to animal testing and the evaluate whether there is a reduction in animals being used for experiments. The author of this paper will examine four journal articles titled as the following: Accept No Substitutes: The Ethics of Alternatives, Scientists and Animal Research: Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde?, Strategic Focus on 3R Principles Reveals Major Reductions in the Use of Animals in Pharmaceutical Toxicity Testing, No Animals Harmed: Toward a Paradigm Shift in Toxicity Testing. Each journal article highlights different arguments of the said problem and reveals information about animal testing that many may not be aware of. The author will summarize all four journal articles and apply a response to each one.
In the article, “Should Animals Be Used for Scientific or Commercial Testing?” by procon.org, it states that by testing animals with medications has contributed to many life-saving cures and treatments, but some people believe it is a cruel and inhumane procedure. Animals go through an excruciating amount of pain for the scientific procedures of testing new products and drugs. They are starved and deprived of water for multiple days to test the reaction of the products. Some are even given burns and other wounds to study the healing process. Animals bodies are so different from ours, would you trust a drug that pass in an animal trial to go into your body?
The pain and suffering that experimental animals go through is not worth the possible benefit to humans. Significant quantities of people are oblivious to exactly how many countless animals are used as test subjects. Over 100 million animals are tested on each year (Peta). This is a massive number that causes numerous animals to be abused, neglected, and in even some cases killed (Peta). The Animal Welfare Act does not protect 95% of animals that are used in experiments. During the life span of the animals they are given drugs, tested on for toxicity levels, and other painful procedures. In toxicity testing, animals used in chronic testing receive the test substance daily seven days a week with no recovery