Pros And Cons Of Animal Testing

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

First, Animals used for scientific testing is cruel and inhumane because animal’s experience feelings just like humans. What I discovered in my research is that animal testing is not all humane and pain free as most people think. “The US Department of Agriculture reported in 2010 that 97,123 animals suffered pain during experiments while being given no anesthesia for relief” (ProCon.org). If humans receive anesthesia during surgeries, then so should the animals. These animals undergo procedures that cause these animals to feel 100% pain. Although animal testing may seem environmentally friendly, animals are subjected to force feeding, food and water deprivation, and the

Generally speaking, if you were to hear, “It's time for you to test a vaccine that may or may not be dangerous or even possibly fatal, for the sake of a different species.” It's understandable that the notion of this may make you feel uncomfortable. Nevertheless, this exact situation is what happens to animals across the world. One charged debate that has taken place for a long period, of time, is whether animal testing has a valid position, within, the field of health and medicine studies. There are two heavily opinionated sides within this conflict. There are those who feel Animal Testing is necessary for the future of medicine, then there are the people who believe that animal testing ( even though, perhaps once had a reasonable stand) no longer serves a purpose in health and medicine, believing animal testing to be ( for many people but not all) morally unacceptable and an outdated practice. Upon reflecting on the arguments brought before both sides of this debate, it can be concluded that animals should no longer be used to test on as it's ineffective and a waste of time.

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

Most companies use animals to test their products. There are different sides of the argument about companies doing animal testing. The two sides are the people who want it to stop since its against animal rights and it’s inhumane but the others say that it helps majorly with making medical breakthroughs on products and cures. “This topic first started around 400 B.C. and was used by Aristotle and Erasistratus” (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

Although animal testing helps with medical research. It is not right, since it is basically animal cruelty. Animal testing is wrong in many ways, since animals don’t know what’s going on. So the big question is, is animal testing really necessary? Animal testing happens every day in laboratories. Animals shouldn’t have to be harmed when being tested on, they have feelings just like humans do. There are many different kinds of animals that get tested on such as: rats, mice, rabbits, hamsters, and even dogs. Why put animal’s lives in harm’s way, when there are other resources out there to help with medical researching?

There are many reasons as to why animal testing is an unethical and outdated practice, yet it is still being carried out in this day and age. Thanks to advances in scientific research, animal testing is no longer a necessary evil, so its use is more of an inconvenience than an advantage. And although there are many reasons as to why animal testing should be discontinued, costs, alternative testing, and its psychological effects on animals are the strongest arguments as to why it should be banned.

Animal testing: research and development projects on animals, esp. for purposes of determining the safety of substances such as foods or drugs. These days many people think that animal testing plays a major role in the medical and scientific research that would help contribute to medical advances in the future. In reality animal testing are undertaken simply out of curiosity to see how the animal react to different substances. Many times animals in laboratories, are forced to go through pain, misery, and disease, and just to be killed at the end of the study when they are no more of usage. Such animal testing is morally wrong and should be stopped before more animals are being put in misery from animal testing.

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

In a Lone Star College article “save the animals: stop animal testing”, the author asserts that animal testing exploits animals, the pain and suffering that experimental animals are subject to is not worth any possible benefits to humans; followed by that the animals are virtually tortured to death, and all of these tests are done in the interest of human welfare,

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

It is estimated by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) that over one hundred million animals are killed each year by animal testing. The term “animal testing” refers to experimentation that takes place before human clinical trials to determine the dosing, toxicity, and efficiency of products for humans. This includes animals being tested for medical research, cosmetic products, and curiosity-driven experimentation. Many times this leads to animals being treated inhumanely and has led to serious controversy over whether animal testing is actually effective. In fact, animal testing is frowned upon because studies show that testing animals are not a direct analogy to impacting humans, animal testing also kills an unprecedented number of animals, and throughout the year’s scientists have found alternative methods for creating beneficial products for humans.

Not only can scientists create human skin, but they can also do the same with organs. One experiment in advanced stages of development is microfluidic chips, or “Human-on-a-Chip” (“Alternatives to Animal Testing” 1). These chips are just 2 centimeters wide and contain tissue samples from different parts of the body that are linked by microchannels through which a blood substitute flows. This mimics pathways and organ processes in the body. This method is also an advantage because of the reduction in the costs compared to using animals for testing, which is extremely costly (2). However, there are limitations to this so called “Human-on-a-Chip.” Microfluidic chips limit the ability of data collected compared to an animal model. Scientists

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