Pros Of Animal Testing

There is a moral imperative to diminish suffering in all sentient beings, but when difficult choices have to be made, human suffering has to come first…” (Juan Carlos Marvin, 2015)

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In the United States alone, notably around 100 million animals die every year from lab testing, including the larger animals like dogs and cats, along with rodents. With animal testing being on the rise, it is called out for being an unethical form of science. There are scientists and pro animal rights activists constantly on the search to reduce the number of animals involved in animal testing. They are trying to find alternatives to help layout a better blueprint for the science world, even if some alternatives are more profound than others. However, with their search, there are different types of lab testing that are used in an attempt to make animal testing more humane, and trying to pass laws that limit the use of animals in testing,

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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:

Based on Peta, an international animal protection agency, it was found that “more than 100 million animals—including mice, rats, frogs, dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs, monkeys, fish, and birds—are killed in U.S. laboratories involving . . . medical training, curiosity-driven experimentation, and chemical, drug, food, and cosmetics testing.” The United States’ controversy on animal testing is a debatable topic that varies based on multiple factors. In an article conducted by Viren Swami, a professor at Anglia Ruskin University, he expressed the concept of animal testing. Animal testing refers to the use of animals in experiments; this ranges from academic experiments, research, or commercial establishments (Swami, Viren 269). Swami also discussed the number of creatures that were tested upon. Based on his research, “. . . 3 million animals - from fruit flies to mice to non-human primates – are used annually in experiments, and may either be killed or subsequently euthanized . . .” (Swami, Viren 269). This goes to show that animal testing is a gruesome task in which the weaknesses of the topic outweigh the strengths. Hundreds of research and scientific experiments point to the fact that testing on primates in a laboratory is not beneficial to humans; the value of those species who are tested on are too valuable to nature.

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

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.

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

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

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

Ninety-two percent of experimental drugs that are safe and effective in animals fail in human clinical trials because they are too dangerous or don't work. (Top Five, (n.d)). Everything we use from medications and vaccines to makeup and hygiene products; such as shampoo, conditioner all have to be tested and deemed safe for human use and consumption. One way to test to insure these things are safe is to test these products on animals. There are many reasons why animal testing should not be allowed, first being that the results vary greatly between humans and animals, secondly it is unethical and abusive and third there are other methods available to test products. Although people say they’re just animals, product testing on animals is unethical and abusive, and there are alternative options to test.