Pros And Cons Of Animal Testing

Around the world, there has been an enduring controversial issue and that is animal testing and research. Since the beginning of medicine, animals were used in the testing of drugs, vaccines, and medical devices to determine the safety of a product due to their similarities in diseases with humans. However this is considered unnecessary due to the creation of alternatives for animal testing. Despite these alternatives the majority of animal testing still has not come to halt. This issue deserves to be attentive to instead of turning a blind eye as we consumers have always done dragging the issue and understand how our products are developed. The audience for this topic is generally people who are consumers of products and UTA students. In

On the opposite side of the spectrum, supporters strongly argue a multitude of reasons why animal testing has been and will continue to be the best form of experimentation for upcoming products in the market. The first and most prominent reason is that testing on animals “has contributed to many life-saving cures and treatments,” including medication for cancer, severe injuries, leukemia, and more (“Should Animals Be Used”). Not only do these medical advancements bring significant progress into the scientific field, but they are also the only adequate form of testing which fully reveals all the responses that would be mirrored in human beings. The pro side, as established by ProCon.org, commonly articulates that:

Over the years, it has been a vast ethical and legal debate about using animals for cosmetic testing. Recently the European Union (EU) has taken steps to stop animal testing. According to PETA, the EU has banned the sale of any cosmetic ingredients that have been tested on animals. This means that any cosmetic company who wishes to sell in the EU, must cease animal testing. Unfortunately, this has incited little change in the United States and its views toward animal testing. Even though there are so many cruelty free options available, many manufactures in the U.S. still continue to experiment with animals. What is even more horrific is that the U.S. does not require animal testing to be conducted to determine if a product is safe or not.

Needles, knives, burns, hives, rashes, and scratches; what does this sound like to you? To me it sounds like horror movie full of torture and pain. In reality, that is what animals have to endure on a daily basis. In North America, there are no bans on animal testing for cosmetic purposes. Which means, animals have to be poked, scratched, burned and tortured so that we can benefit from the products it produces. As stated by Suzi who runs a blog based on cruelty free cosmetics, in all of the makeup companies in the world, a total of 87 companies are cruelty free (2016). This is quite a large number, but it is definitely not large enough. Most of the makeup brands that are sold in Shoppers Drug Mart, a very common pharmacy across Canada, are

Animal rights are not as protective as they should be. The topic of animal testing probably evokes images of animals being viciously injected or force fed pills. This is because it is the reality of what animal testing has been for the previous decades. Testing on animals for the benefit of humans is cruel and hurtful to the animals being tested upon. Animals feel the same level of pain that a human does, so why does it make it okay to test unknown substances on a lab rat just because it is smaller and weaker?  In recent years potential animal testing alternatives have shown up, yet it is still highly underused. I agree wholeheartedly that testing products and chemicals on animals for human gain is simply wrong. In this essay I will argue to protect the lives of animals by expressing how cruel animal testing is and how it is the wrong method of testing.

Animal testing is a very pricey business on which millions of dollars are wasted each year -- money that could be lent to more ethical and reasonable fields of research. Many of these tests take up to four or five years, and during that time a higher and higher price is being accumulated. In the United States, tests studying sister chromatid exchange can cost up to $22,000 when using an animal, but the in vitro alternative of this test only costs $8,000, saving about $14,000 (Humane Society International, 4). Another form of animal testing - androgen hormone interactions - can cost up to $37,000, but in vitro costs only $7,000, saving $30,000 per test (4). Over time, the outrageous prices of animal testing build up and only add to the debt that many countries already face. This results in more unwanted and

People have been debating about who are more important, humans or animals and should animal testing be ban and become human testing?

In recent studies scientist claim that animal testing is beneficial to the advancement of human knowledge, while animal rights’ activists claim that animal testing is not humane and violates animals’ rights. The controversy over animal testing is best understood as a disagreement about whether animal testing is beneficial to humans. Each year more than 100 million animals are killed in the U.S. Every country has a law that permits medical experimentation on animals. While some countries protect particular kinds of animals from being subject to extermination. Britain has some of the strictest laws and regulations in the world that exists as a positive step for both animal testing supporters and those who are against it. There are

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

Products that fill the shelves of supermarkets have a more complicated background than many believe. Behind every ingredient that companies list on packaging of cosmetics and medicine, both prescription and over the counter, is a choice that corporations must make regarding the treatment of animals. Laboratories harm animals and even kill them when conducting laboratory tests for new products. Numerous tests have been created since the wide use of animals, such as artificial skin tests that have no negative consequence for them. Global governments have differing laws dealing with these harmful means of production, but many allow this to take place, while even protecting household pets. Many people do not think of the process that precedes products on store shelves. Deadly animal testing with questionable ingredients is constantly being proven to be outdated by new types of tests for both cosmetic and medical uses.

In contrast, some people do not see anything wrong with animal testing due to the fact that animals do not have rights, therefore it is acceptable to use them as test subjects. Others argue that all animal experimentation should end because it is wrong to treat animals merely as tools for furthering human knowledge. There is much disagreement as to whether non-human animals have rights, as in animal rights. Animal rights teach humans that certain things are wrong as a matter of principle. According to this point of view, an animal should have as much right as a human being to live a full life, free of pain and suffering in labs. On the other hand, people believe it is wrong to unnecessarily abuse animals, but testing on animals must continue because of the enormous scientific resource animal models provide. Almost all humans grow up wearing leather, eating meat, and going to circuses and zoos. However, humans never considered the impact of these actions on the animals involved. While there are few laws regarding animal testing, there are none that have to do with animal rights. The AWA, Animal Welfare Act, is a federal law which addresses the expectations and standards of care in which animals must receive at research facilities and laboratories (“ProCon” 1). At the same time, U.S. laws allow animals to be burned, shocked, poisoned, isolated, starved, drowned, and brain-damaged. Animal rights is not just a philosophy, it is a social movement that challenges society’s traditional view that all nonhuman animals exist solely for human use. Animals have been treated differently than humans by nearly every culture throughout recorded history. If humans begin to treat animals the same now, humans would have to become vegetarians and hunting would be

Have you ever thought about the effects of animal testing? Well, some critics may argue that it has many positive effects, such as, providing the drugs and medicines we need to live healthy lives. But, although this may be true, I challenge this. To continue, animal testing is cruel to animals and does not produce enough and/or strong enough medicines to be necessary for humans. This is because, when animals are seized for animal testing, they are not only locked in cages, but they are also treated menacingly and very poorly. Also, animal testing has shown to be wasting our lives and resources. In addition, not only is animal testing unnecessary, but there are also other alternatives.

The last issue about animal testing is that it is wasteful. 115 million animals are tested on globally, every single year (Cruelty Free International). Many of these animals lives are wasted because there are other more efficient alternative ways of testing, that don’t involve the animal’s lives. These ways of testing include; computer models, synthetic membranes, statistics, scanning technologies, human volunteers, and cell and tissue cultures (Earth, Down to). If scientists used these alternative kinds of testing before testing on animals, many lives would be saved. Also, there would be no need to breed all of these animals in the first place. Scientist are also wasting money. Buying the animals and their food is very expensive. If the

Testing products on animals are ways that humans do research. It tests whether or not the ingredients will have bad reactions on skin. Consequently, this is a danger for animals that are being kept in captivity and being tortured for human advancement. The cons of this animal abuse are the animals always end up dying or are very close to it, animal testing is cruel and inhumane, and it is very expensive to keep getting animals to kill.

More than 100 million animals are killed in the United States annually for biology lessons, medical training, curiosity-driven testing, and chemical, drug, food, and cosmetics testing. Animal testing in America has lasted for many years. It has long been viewed as a way to find cures for human diseases and test the safety of consumer products. However, animal testing is very costly and wastes time compared to other options. Many test subjects even die due to experiments. Human anatomy is also very different from animals’, so test results are not always accurate. Animal product testing should not be performed because it is more expensive and time consuming than other alternatives, ineffective as humans are not genetically parallel to test