Imagine an animal locked in a dark cage, alone without food or water, with a deadly disease infecting its body, having to watch other animals being experimented on. These animals have zero control of what is about to happen, and they will never know if today is their last day. This is the situation that happens when animals are the subject of tests. Many of these animals are suffering with diseases and possibly growing tumors the size of their bodies. Worldwide, 24 animals die every minute in laboratories. Every year, 100 million animals die from such test.
These tests are unethical, unnecessary, and is bad science. Mice, fish, rabbits, rats, guinea pigs, hamsters, farm animals, birds, cats, and dogs are just a few of the animals that are being tested on. Many of these animals become blind after tests that consist of eyeliner, hand soap, food ingredients, and medicines. These animals are dying inhumanely, and it needs to stop. PETA scientist stated, “Life in a cage is no life at all” (PETA). So why, as humans, do we find it acceptable to put them through all this suffering?
The United States of America allows laboratories to test on animals. Many times testing includes but is not limited to: starving, isolating, drowning, being burnt, shocked, brain-damaged, and addicted to drugs. Animal testing is very ineffective due to animals not getting the same diseases as humans. Also, the testing leaves permanent damage to the animals. Blindness, burning skin, and brain damage are
Animal Testing is widely known to be cruel and inhumane. Many animals suffer due to scientists wanting to test their products on them to benefit humans. The Humane Society International stated that animals that are experimented on are usually force fed, forces inhalation, deprivation of food and water.
To begin, the experimental use of animals in medical studies is unethical. These creatures are confined in isolated cages where they are deprived of necessary environmental elements. It is not uncommon that they undergo ghastly methods of experimentation; including the inhalation of toxic fumes, the burning of their skin, and the crushing of their spinal cords ("People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals"). This information sheds light on the grim realities of animal experimentation. These creatures are living, breathing beings that do not deserve to be treated as they are nothing more than lab objects. Not only are they ripped from their natural habitats, but are forced to endure an irreversible psychological trauma . To put it in perspective, imagine a six-month-old child being taken from their parents and sent to a lab to undergo scientific experiments that could ultimately result in
Although animals testing help humans in many ways it can be cruel and inhuman to the animals being tested on. Depending on which lab the end up in they could be treated poorly and starved. They could be “inflicted with burn wounds and pain to test for a healing process” (Brown, 2017). This is cruel and just wrong for many reasons. “When testing to evaluate irritation caused by
animals have to endure the rest of their life in captivity or injured. When testing
Animals are very different from human beings and therefore make poor test subjects. The anatomic, metabolic, and
Pigs being shot, rabbits blown up, guinea pigs paralyzed with toxic nerve agent, and monkeys given smallpox. 100 million animals die in laboratories, dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs, monkeys, fish, and birds are killed in laboratories for lessons in biology, medical training, curiosity-driven experimentation, and chemical, drug, food, and cosmetics testing. Innocent animals are being tested on and killed every single day.
Although there has been thousands of reports of animal abuse in the field of medical testing, there has also been an extraordinary amount of success that come from these examinations. With these tests, scientists were able to advance in
Also animals such as monkeys, rats, rabbits, dogs, cats, hamsters, etc. Are used for animal testing, there are many risks towards this type of experiments scientist do, that are performed on living animals. “It is estimated that more than 115 million
Many people believe that there is an extraordinary amount of animals used for animal testing, each year. However, people consume more than 340 chickens for every research animal used. Because humans and animals are very similar biologically, they are affected by many of the same illnesses and conditions, such as diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. Animal research has enriched comprehensive understanding and treating conditions such as brain injury, Cystic Fibrosis, Malaria, and many others. Animal testing should continue in the U.S.
Trapped in cold, cramped, barren cages. Everyday is a nightmare where they get put in horrific experiments. It sounds like something from a horror film, but it isn't, its reality for ” lab” animals. If people still didn't know already millions of animals are involved in costly, misleading,and inhumane tests experiments and it should be outlawed.
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
Every year an estimated 26 million animals in the United Sates are tested on. Animals are used to test medical products, makeup, and many other everyday used products. The processes that these animals go through is very painful, and most times leave horrible side effects. Testing on these animals is cruel and inhumane.
Torturing and forcing animals to inhale massive quantities of substances for testing or endure painful caustic chemicals applied to their eyes and skin (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals par. 2) are inevitably killed. Laboratories deprive the animals of anything natural to them—forced to live in confined to medal cages, where they are isolated socially and traumatized psychologically (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals par. 2). Majority of the animals tested on include rodents, dogs, cats, rabbits, monkeys and birds. The most popularly used for genetic studying and laboratory experimentation are rats and the domestic rabbit (Rabbits and Hares par. 4). “Even animals who are covered by the law can be burned, shocked, poisoned, isolated, starved, forcibly restrained, addicted to drugs and brain damaged— no procedures or experiments…are prohibited by law” (Using Animals for Medical Testing par. 12). The most common experimentation types are for medical and cosmetic reasons, in order to enhance health and beauty to benefit human
Every year in the United States approximately 26 million animals are used for scientific and commercial testing. The animals are used for a variety of reasons such as, to develop medical treatments, determine the toxicity of medications, check the safety of products intended for human usage and, other biochemical, commercial, and health care uses. Ever since 500 BC, animals have been used for testing. Animal testing has had many positive outcomes; it enabled the development of many lifesaving treatments for animals and humans. There has yet to be found an alternative for testing and researching a living organism, however many people consider animal testing is harsh and inhuman. Furthermore, animals and humans are different so, the results of
Animals such as dogs and rabbits are subjected to confined cages and isolation before enduring unethical methods of torture. Methods include poisoning, drilling through bones, burning, and more.