Pros And Cons Of Animal Testing

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Animals may be the closest thing to humans other than actual humans, however they are not the exact same. The results of the tests done on animals might have a different outcome when the test is done on humans. These tests happening on innocent animals will not have the same results as they would on humans. “The FDA reports that 92 percent of drugs approved for testing in humans fail to receive approval for human use”

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Somewhere, in the United States, an animal is in terror. It cowers fearfully as scientists hold it down, and a doctor grips a massive, sharp needle next to its neck, ready to inject the animal with a lethal dose of a new, experimental drug. The animal is one of 26 million other creatures facing the same, painful, fate annually (The Hasting Center). Animal testing is the downfall of humanity, a practice of humans testing chemicals, drugs, and cosmetics on animals. Animal testing is an atrocity that is an unnecessary and dangerous ordeal to the subjects being tested on. The fact that it is cruel, is highly inaccurate, and that there are many other ways to achieve the results being pursued all

Animal tests while have been successful in the past, more than likely won’t lead to successful transition into humans. Being used in medical research for years animals have led to some successes and scientific breakthroughs, but most of the time end up failing and hurting the animals instead of helping humans. Studies by the Food and Drug Administration found that about 92 of 100 drugs that passed the animal tests had failed in humans (“Top Five Reasons to Stop Animal Testing,” 2017). Humans have become very developed medically over the last hundreds of years or so. To become more advanced has come with a drawback, harming millions of innocent animals. Most of the time when doing these types of research we end up finding something that would work or barley work in animals but will never work in humans.

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In the 1940’s, there was a test called “The Draize eye and skin irritation and corrosion tests” (People for Ethical Treatment of Animals, n.d) done on rabbits by putting substances into their eyes or smeared onto their shaved skin. It is said that there was “no requirement to provide the animals with any pain-relieving drugs during this prolonged process” (People for Ethical Treatment of Animals, n.d) therefore they endured endless pain for our benefit. As the years went on, so did the tests. In 1969, the “Guinea pig maximization test” was a test that “[injected] animals with a test substance multiple times and [measured] any allergic reaction” (People for Ethical Treatment of Animals, n.d). These reactions would cause their skin to become itchy, inflamed and otherwise painful as a result. If we chose to have these animals in our homes and treat them as our own, how can we stand for them to be treated this way? There is no doubt in my mind that animal testing will continue to be around for years to come, but we need to try and understand that their lives are at stake because of the products we choose to use. Currently, many companies chose to reject animal testing and do testing by “cell and tissue cultures, reconstructed skin grown from human cells, and computerized “structure-activity relationship” models that allow extrapolation of existing data to predict

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Each year over 100 million animals are abused and tortured by US labs. There must be an elimination of this testing because it is inhumane to treat animals in that manner, there is also different methods of testing products that don't involve animals, and lastly, many countries around the world already have taken the giant step in eliminating the testing.

All around the world animals are being tested on with so called “new and improved” drugs and vaccines. One of the most common and wide known animals that are being tested on are rats and mice. More than 100 million mice and rats are killed every year in the U.S. due to animal testing. That means that in the time it took you to read these few short sentences about 45 mice were killed because they were tested on with some drug or vaccine. While testing drugs and vaccines may be convenient, efficient, and cheap, ultimately we are not considering the value of living things therefore mice and rats should not be allowed to be tested on and new laws should be put in place banning animal testing.

An animal test is any scientific experiment or test in which a live animal is forced to undergo something that is likely to cause them pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm. As right now, millions of mice, rats, rabbits, primates, cats, dogs, and other animals are locked inside barren cages in laboratories across the country. They languish in pain, suffer from extreme frustration, ache with loneliness, and long to be free. The complete lack of environmental enrichment and stress of their living situation cause some animals to develop neurotic types of behavior such as incessantly spinning in circles, rocking back and forth, pulling out their own fur, and even biting themselves. They shake and cower in fear whenever someone approaches, and their blood pressure spikes dramatically. After enduring a life of pain, loneliness, and terror, almost all of them will be killed.

Every day people use products that have been tested on animals without even realizing it. This includes medication, beauty products, and even food. Despite it being a common method of research, there are many instances where it is not necessary to test on animals. Existing methods may be used to replace this cruel practice and can even produce more accurate results. Animal research is not always necessary to advance in science, nor determine product safety.

Testing has been done on animals since around 500 BC (“Background”). Animal testing is something that has obviously been around for a while, but it is something that should go away in the near future. Testing of products on animals instead of using other forms of testing is something that is socially acceptable nationwide; the whole process should be outlawed due to new discoveries enabling testing to be done in vitro.

Animal testing is one of the biggest issues currently in America. According to a Newsweek article, there is about 43 percent of people who opposed to animal testing (Ericson) and those percentages are increasing each year. Animal Testing is the use of animals in experiments and development projects usually to determine toxicity, dosing, and efficacy of test drugs before proceeding to human clinical trials (“Animal Testing- Biology-Online Dictionary). There are many sick and healthy animals that are currently kept by scientists in a laboratory to get products tested on. Animals have been experimented on in the past to know if certain products like medications are healthy and useful enough for humans. There are two different points of views when it comes to animal testing some believes that there is nothing wrong with animal testing, but others say contrarily.

An estimated 26 million animals are mistreated every year in the United States for scientific and commercial testing (“Background”). Animals are used to develop medical treatments, determine toxicity of medications, check the safety of products destined for human use, and other biomedical, commercial, and health care uses. Research on living animals has been exercised since at least 500 BC (“Background”). Most of these animals include dogs, cats, ferrets, rabbits, pigs, sheep, monkeys, chimpanzees, rats, mice, and birds (“Harm and Suffering”). It has caused so many animals to suffer and die painful, slow deaths. The animals that are tested are forced to eat adverse substances, inhale harmful toxins, and remain immobilized so they can be utilized for experimentation. Not only do they endure painful procedures, they also suffer from mental abuse. They are locked up in scanty cages at all hours and are neglected by their holders. Animals should have basic moral rights to proper treatment. Another problem is the minimal protection they have with the Animal Welfare Act (“Harm and Suffering”). It allows rats, mice, and birds to be experimented on and consequently these animals make up ninety five percent of the testing population (“Rats”). Animals testing should not be used because it is morally wrong to harm an animal for another's benefit, animals may react differently to certain medication and cosmetics than humans, and there are other ways to do testing that do not include