Can one imagine human beings being used by animals to experiment on different things? Does the imagination itself bring about feeling the pain? The debate of animal experimentation has been going on for past few decades where some believe that the use of animals for medical and product testing should be practiced and some argue that it should be stopped. The opinions regarding this topic are skeptical due to the various fact discovered during the process of animal research. The two sides of the discussion are like two sides of a coin. Both viewpoint have their own positive and negative feedbacks. But animal experimentation should be stopped because it is inhumane and ignores the pain of the innocent living beings. Also, there is no accurate proof that the medicine or products tested on animals can be safe for human usage because we have different physiological feature than the animals. Currently, the news is also exploring about the use of vegan makeups that encourages us to agree that animal testing is indeed not the only source that can be used to discover medication and other products. On one hand, the opponents continue to argue that animal experimentation should be continued for the betterment of the world where the researches can help in finding an end to the health problems and develop things to satisfy the humans. For example, anti-aging pills have been discovered that can add years to the dog’s lifespan by at least five years which is good news for all the animal lovers. This was identified during the tests on mice with the rapamycin medication, has been shown to lengthen lifespans up to 60%. It is not just humans, but livestock also benefits from studies conducted on animals in the lab. Rumensin which is an antimicrobial developed in 1975 are commonly used to treat miscellaneous infections in cows and were also developed through research on mice. In addition, Fowlpox virus had threatened the world's 19 billion chickens which had produced painful lesions on a bird's skin, throat and respiratory tract and led them to suffer but due to the research studies carried in mice by scientists in 2006 created a live-virus vaccine for chickens (Bailey). Another article by Fraser talks
For many years, animal testing has been very widely accepted in the world for the
Every year, a total of one million children die from pneumonia. If you multiply that number by one hundred, you will have the number of animals that suffer painful deaths due to medical experimentation in U.S. laboratories each year. This number includes animals of all types, from mice and rats to fish and birds. These animals are typically used because of tradition rather than actual scientific reasoning, making their deaths all the more cruel. Animal experimentation is not only unethical, but ineffective and expensive. It should be phased out and replaced with technological alternatives.
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated” (Mahatma Gandhi). Scientists have been using animals for biomedical research for centuries. They provide a source to get information scientists can not get without harming humans. A lot of debate is spread about whether it is good or bad. Animal experimentation is a controversial topic because it is helpful to humans, but it is also cruel and inhumane.
For centuries humans have dedicated their time and research to animal experimentation. A large number of these animals are being utilized and taken from their homes involuntarily. They are abused, mishandled and harmed for our own benefit to create products such as cosmetic supplies, vaccines, and medication.
Should animal testing be a research method in today's society? This has been a rising topic of today’s society, especially in the United States. Many would support this question as it has been used as a research method for scientific and commercial products to ensure safety for humans when they receive the final product. However, others would argue against animal testing due to its immorality of the researcher’s actions towards the animals as well inaccurate results received from the studies. While animal testing has benefited medical science in the past, but using animal testing today is seen to many as cruel and inhumane due to the rise of alternative testing strategies that result in fewer expenses and less damaging to animal kind.
100 million animals die each in the US. Those animals include mice,rats,frogs,dogs,cats,rabbits, hamster,guinea pigs,monkeys,fish and birds. All of the listed animals are used for a biology lessons,medical training,chemical experimentation, drug,food and cosmetic testing. Plus all of these animals are tortured and forced to do things that the animals do not want to do. Animals should not be used for scientific or commercial testing because animals testing can be cruel and inhumane,tests do not reliably predict in human beings, and tests are most expensive than other test and government money is wasted.
Today, at this very minute. there are millions of mice, rats, rabbits, cats, dogs, primates and other animals are locked up in tiny cages in laboratories, universities and schools across the world. They are in excruciating pain from all the torture they get put through. All they want is to be free from their daily torment. In this article we will show you the errors of animal experimentation how they are treated and the alternative ways to test products.
Experimenting on animals dates back to the roman times, but since then the animal experimentation industry has grown massively and is now a multi-billion dollar industry. Every year millions of animals are killed in laboratory experiments worldwide. Animals are sometimes skinned alive and left to bleed to death. I decided to conduct this research because I worry about animal welfare. There are many different scenarios in which animals are experimented on. These include Medical research where testing on animals is not aimed at finding cures but finding ways of improving treatments to reduce things such as side effects. Medical testing on animals has and will continue to help the future of medicine. Genetic engineering is the fastest growing area of the animal experimentation franchise, already there are thousands of genetically modified animals. Product testing is where products such as makeup
Ninty two percent of drugs tested on animals immediately fail when first tried on humans. Each year 100 million animals are killed in labs for biology lessons, and experiments made off of curiosity. The animals get force feed, forced inhalation, low food and water, long periods of physical movement, burns and other wounds to study how they heal.
Millions of animals die each year in the U.S. Many of these animals have been through an awful lot. The reason behind these animal deaths is because of the people experimenting on them in order to find cures to things or find things that have not been found. Each one of these experiments contributes to the deaths of these innocent animals, that is why animals should not be tested on.
Since the discovery of disease, medical professionals have been looking and testing for cures. When looking for a cure or treatment for a disease you go through a series of steps. These steps are full of possible treatments, looking at your progress through a microscope, and then finally testing your possible treatment on live animals. I believe that this step is crucial to finding treatments because although the possible cure works perfectly in a petri dish may in fact be poisonous to living people. Animal testing for medical research is also impacts the effectiveness of prescription medication and even it finds treatments for animal ailments.
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
Animal Testing, what is it? On dictionary.com the definition for animal testing is, “noun; The use of non-human animals in research and development projects, esp. for purposes of determining the safety of substances such as foods or drugs” So what does that tell us? That Animal testing is okay, and a good thing for scientific research, right? Well in some cases, using lab rats is for a good cause, to test things out and see what’s cures what, but companies such as Loreal, L’Oréal, Maybelline, Windex, off, dawn, Estée Lauder, St. Ives, Olay, glade, soft soap, any plenty more use animal testing for horrid things. They go as far as caging animals and use them for multiple tests in a row, it’s just cruel. People everyday fund these companies
There are about more than 100 million animals that are killed in laboratories. Animals are innocent and many of them include mice, rats, guinea pigs, hamsters, cats, and dogs. These animals are harmless and can not defend themselves from us sometimes. It is evident that no animal should be tested on.
Observation and experimentation are how we as humans have been able to learn more about ourselves and the world and universe we live in. One of the most common methods of experimentation is animal testing. However, there are controversies surrounding animal testing. There are some that believe animal testing to be cruel and overdone, advocating for the eradication of the practice and further reliance alternative research methods. Groups like People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and other animal rights advocates fall in this category. There are some that believe animal testing to be an invaluable resource and should continue, such as some scientists and research groups. However, there appears to me to be a consensus that is closer to the middle: the belief and understanding that while there are benefits to animal testing, there are flaws in the practice and there should be changes to increase its efficacy while we simultaneously explore alternate testing methods. Many scientists and the National Institute of Health (NIH) subscribe to this idea. I aim to explore the benefits, problems, and implications of animal testing in order to reach a more informed conclusion about a position that is most validated by the information I have used.