Fight Against Animal Testing: Extreme Cruelty And Suffering

According to PETA, every year, millions of animals are poisoned and killed in barbaric tests that were crudely developed as long ago as the 1920s to evaluate the toxicity of consumer products and their ingredients. Rats, mice, guinea pigs, rabbits, and other animals are forced to swallow or inhale massive quantities of a test substance or endure the pain of a chemical eating away at their sensitive eyes and

Over the past few decades, animals have been enduring unimaginable pain and fear due to being used to test the everyday products we use. And as unfortunate as it sounds, animals simply do not have the choice in these cruel experiments scientist put them through. According to data collected by F. Barbara Orlans for her book, In the Name of Science: Issues in Responsible Animal Experimentation, “sixty percent of all animals used in testing are used in biomedical research and product-safety testing” (Orlans There will always be different points of views on this troubling topic, some may be against it because they see animals as their companions or some may support it because they only see animals as objects to move forward with science and experimental

Before this chapter gets into how animals are tested, you should know about the purposes of animal testing. Most of the times, people study how the animal's behavior or body has changed after giving them any range of things. These can include radiation, toxic gases, and more harmful substances. “Over 100 million animals are burned, crippled, poisoned, and abused in US labs every year.” (DoSomething.org) Toxicity testing, determining the degree to which a substance can damage a living or nonliving organism, often leaves animals dead before the test is even finished. Some irritation tests include seeing how the chemical goes through the layers of cells through the eyes and skin. Acute toxicity testing is usually one test or a few in a short period of time. This leads to high dose amounts which gives much worse side effects inclusive of abdominal pain, seizures, paralysis, and more. After the animals are tested, they stay in cages without fresh air or seeing light. One of the worst parts is that after all the testing, the product might not even be suitable for humans. All these animals have a brain in which they can feel pain and emotion. Us humans are animals too, why should we do this to our

Test animals are subjected to intense pain and suffering like burn, scrape and infection. A perfectly fine rabbit is shaved and chemicals are rubbed onto its bare skin or eye irritation tests is performed by dripping chemicals into its eyes without any pain relief. Repeated oral force-feeding studies are conducted to look for signs of general illness or health hazards like cancer or birth defects. Sometimes these animals are also forced to swallow massive amounts of chemical to determine the maximum dose that can cause death. The saddest part of this is these tests can take weeks or even months to come up with a result and these poor animals are tortured every day to get to that result. At the end of the test, most of the animals are killed either by neck-breaking or decapitation and in some cases if they can be reused for other experiments, they are abused

The testing of animals is deemed to be cruel and inhumane because of the way the animals get treated. In the article, “Women Fought for humane treatment of Chicago’s dogs, cats, horses written by Lara Weber describes how the conditions of where these animals lived were. In a Chicago pound for animals, three hundred dogs cried and were extremely cold from the conditions outside (Weber 1). These animals were in terrible conditions and the city should not be proud of it. Within a couple of days these dogs disappeared from the pound unexpectedly and were loaded onto a Santa Fe railroad that was heading for Texas (Weber 2). These animals were probably stolen for a research facility so they could be used for testing. In the next article, “Save The Animals: Stop Animal Testing” written by Heather Dunnuck describes some of the awful tests these animals have to endure throughout their life. “The American Veterinary Medical Association defines pain as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience perceived as arising from a specific region of the body and associated with actual or potential tissue damage” (Dunnuck 1). This means the animals are feeling it and are suffering from it. Animals can feel pain just as humans can feel pain. When these animals are used for toxicity or chemical tests it is a painful and deadly test for the animal (Dunnuck 1). Some of the tests the researchers use are the LD50 and the Draize test. In the Draize test the researchers put a substance in the

Not only do the animals live in unfavorable conditions, they are often burned, poisoned, abused, and crippled then left in their cages to wait for the pain to subside. The AWA does all it can to prevent the harm of testing subjects, but most often, vets are not even on the scene of testing, though certain laws require it. According to the Humane Society, “registration of a single pesticide requires more than 50 experiments and the use of as many as 12,000 animals” (11 Facts about Animal Testing). Pregnant creatures are sometimes killed so testing can be done of the fetus; testing the effect certain drugs would have on a human fetus; there is no crueler action than to take a child from its’

Fatima walks into the cosmetic section of Macy’s and is interested in buying some acne skin care products. As she was paying for them, she notices plenty of harmful side effects the acne products contained. Fatima is glad she is aware of these symptoms and knows that these side effects are rare and that the product is almost completely safe to use. If it was not for animal testing that is currently being used in some laboratories, these side effects would have been discovered on people and that would create an unsafe environment. Less people would want to buy care products and medicine since it would be viewed as a risk instead of something helpful. Animal testing is becoming a more controversial topic, despite its many successes over the years. Since people have various misconceptions about it, such as it being an unsafe and cruel technique, it has become a more unpopular method. However, the benefits of animal research and testing have been less spread due to negative media attention, which created a bias among the public. Animal testing is a practice that has proved to be beneficial and should be continued because of the close similarity between humans and animals, the many lifesaving cures that it contributed to, and the regulation of the practice that makes it safe and humane for animals.

I buy a great deal of your products. I have spent more than I care to admit. Now I hear your going back to animal testing. If this is true, I suggest you STOP! I know many many people who use your products and I have talked with all of them and we have decided to boycott your product until you go back to cruelty free makeup.Now I know what you are thinking, your thinking a few people wont make a difference on your bottom line. I suggest you think about the 17 people whom I have convenced to boycott your product, each one of them knows more than a couple of people to convince and then those people know others and so on. You see how this will become a huge problem for your

Is a mouse’s life worth more than yours? Treatments for cancers and diseases are first done on animals such as mice, monkeys, and bunnies to confirm whether the treatment will harm people. While some think it is necessary to have medicine tested on animals, other despise this kind of research and call it “animal cruelty.” However, these animals are trustworthy due to their body structure being similar to ours. Additionally, almost everyone’s life depends on the usage of these animals to ensure treatments are safe for humans. Therefore, the practice of animal testing should not be banned in order for humans to have a healthy life.

This horrendous process is not only cruel but inhumane. Defenseless animals are seized from their natural habitats and confined to barren cages; socially isolated, and psychologically traumatized. Ask yourself this, is murder moral? Is torture? No! Murder and torture are criminal offenses. Despite this, each year, over 100 million animals including frogs, cats, dogs, mice, rabbits, rats, guinea pigs, fish, monkeys, and birds to name a few, are abused and killed in United States laboratories. For what? Medical training, biology lessons, curiosity-driven experiment, and chemical, food, drug, and cosmetics testing. In the moments before their deaths, these helpless animals are forced to inhale toxic fumes, others are immobilized for hours, some have holes drilled into their skulls or their spinal cords crushed, and others have their skin burned off. If these atrocious acts were performed outside the laboratory, they would be considered a felony, yet vivisectors inflict torture on animals every day without any legal questioning. Call it medical research and you can get away with murder. Animal testing is animal killing, therefore, it should be illegal. Some may argue that animals are not humans, so we have no reason to care about them. You say animals are not humans, yet still, they are used to test human products. Animals do not use shampoo and Windex, so why should they be involved in the

As many of us know MAC is one of the most popular makeup brands used today. For so many years MAC has been a cruelty free company but that did not last long. MAC started testing on animals and everyone including celebrity Pamela Anderson was upset. Animal cruelty really effects the animals being tested. These animals can die during the experiment do to the chemicals they use. It performs test that are not necessary reason being, the makeup sometimes does not even launch. Also, it cost a lot of money just to have these animals in the laboratory. With this being said, they should not use animals for experiments to harm them or think that it is okay to let them go on with their lives after the harm.

By Laura Blue, a significant point is mentioned, “We often hear you can't give aspirin to cats because it's toxic to them, or you shouldn't give chocolate to dogs. Chocolate, which is very safe in humans, is not safe in dogs.” Animals are not the best method to test chemical products on, because their biological makeup differs from ours, like I stated earlier. All of the side effects of animal testing are negative to them, and include conditions such as Illness, skin irritation, pain, genetic mutation, and almost always result in death. The animals come from many places such as zoos, compounds, and breeders. Although the animals may be suffering physically from the pain and torture, they are also suffering by being taken away from their home environment and family’s. It has also been scientifically proven that animals feel pain and emotion cognitively as

“With all things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one” (William of Ockham). Animals generally are used to be tested on by researchers for a various amount of reasons. Researchers and scientists worldwide, are determined to find solutions to finding cures to diseases, and any other consumer products that include cosmetic products, that humans use. The term FDA (Food Drug Administration) was created in the year of 1906, by Theodore Roosevelt and Harvey Washington Wiley. This act was made to ensure that all consumer products are to be approved and protected by the public health before the products are released to be used by people. Animals are tested on by researchers before all consumer products are released

The controversy behind animals as research subjects is mainly one of morals and the ethical treatment of said animals. Many people believe we should use them in this way, so we aren 't actually harming people in the pursuit for better things for humans. Though animal testing was a viable resource for many years, it has proven to be extremely controversial and unethical, therefor the use of animals as research subjects should be outlawed.

In the United States alone, over 100 million animals are injured and killed in the name of science. Animals are poisoned, burned, and blinded everyday in product tests for numerous industries such as household cleaning, cosmetics, and manufacturers of personal care products. Even though many companies have banned the testing of their products on animals, some corporations continue to put chemicals into animals’ eyes and onto the shaven skin without any form of pain relief. No doubt is this form of testing cruel, especially now that scientists have began developing new advanced ways to tests products that are quicker and more cost effective. These tests are also increasingly more accurate than the endangering of animals method of testing. Some