Should Animal Testing Be Allowed

Sammy, who has been trained to aid blind people, but he has not been adopted within a year. Of course, they are unknowledgeable to the fact he could help the indigent people because they do not take the time to determine his special gifts. Thus, the scientists decide to use him for research. The agonizing pain flows through his body as he lies on the table getting chemicals put through his tense veins. He wants to run, but the scientists have him strapped to the bed so tightly that he cannot move. As they run the chemicals through him, he cannot do anything but think of his life and extraordinary past owner he had before he got sent to the local dog shelter. Although researchers would have to find new innovations other than animal experimentation to make safe products for humans, the testing of animals should be banned.

Animal testing, also known as animal experimentation, is the use of animals in research and development projects, usually for the purposes of determining the safety of substances such as food, cosmetics, and drugs. Research animals undergo procedures that can cause physical and psychological distress. Mostly, the animals are euthanized, or killed, after the experiments. However, many organizations such as PETA and the Animal Justice Project have brought up, and are fighting against the dangerous outcomes of animals as they undergo testing. As a result, the topic of animal testing has become a divided and controversial topic among individuals, questioning whether it is ethical and unnecessary or humane and necessary to the science development.

Animal testing is barbaric and inhumane. Animal testing is barbaric and inhumane because the scientist force feed them, and they have prolonged periods of physical restraint, and it could kill them. Animals don’t have a voice, so they get a say of what they go through.

“Mice are mice, and people are people. If we look at the mouse to model every aspect of disease for man, and to model cures, we are just wasting our time” - Dr. Clif Barry. Testing on animals can be dangerous for the animal that is being tested on. The amount of money that is sent to laboratories in the U.S.A. is outrageously high. Animal testing is not only terrible, but is unreliable more than half the time. Animal testing should not continue to be legal.

For a long time, the world considered animal testing as an essential part for finding medical cures and for creating cosmetics. Without observing it from different aspects, people are not aware that these testing are: cruel and inhumane and they waste a lot of government money and resources. Also, there are other alternative options that can replace all the experiments that are conducted on animals. Thus, animal testing is immoral and it should be banned.

One reason people should not be allowed to test on animals is because animal testing is cruel and inhumane Animals used in experiments are commonly subjected to force feeding, forced inhalation, food and water deprivation, prolonged periods of physical restraint, the infliction of burns and other wounds to study the healing

“Never, never be afraid to do what is right especially if the well being of a person or animal is at stake (Martin Luther King Jr.).” Martin Luther King Jr. believed that people must stand up for animals who are being tortured or harmed in anyway. The phrase ‘animal testing’ refers to the procedures being performed on living animals for research of biology, diseases, environmental safety, cosmetics, drugs, and industrial products. Animal testing puts the lives of animals on the line for cosmetics and other unimportant inventions. There are many animal rights group such as PETA that fight to end animal testing all together. Animal testing must be prohibited because it is not the best way to test products, it wastes a lot of money, and many animals are harmed in the process.

In the year 2000 a total of over two million animals were used for testing in the United Kingdom. Around the world, animals are used to test products ranging from shampoo to new cancer drugs. This cruel act of animal experimentation should be illegal. The use of animals for testing is not only inhumane, but most animals being used aren’t genetically the same as humans, it is also expensive to do, therefore wasting government dollars.

Animal testing is cruel, against God, and can be avoided. Each year over 100 million animals die in United States laboratories for biology lessons, medical training, curiosity-driven experimentation, and chemical, drug, food, and cosmetics testing. Animal testing dates all the way back to 258 B.C. The famous Greek doctor Galen (AD 129-200) studied animals. William Harvey used animals 400 years ago to discover how blood circulated in the body. Animal testing eventually made its way over to the United States in 1965.

Medicine has come a long way since 2750 BC when Egyptians performed basic forms of surgery. Every day there are new medical discoveries and much better understanding of the potential medicine has, thanks to animal experimentation, testing and researching. Both live and deceased animals are used for commercial or scientific research or educational purposes in a range of capacities. Usually, this is for medical, veterinary and environmental research. Although, millions of animals have suffered and been burned, poisoned, crippled, and even killed for the sake of humanity and medical advancements. (“Eleven Facts”). For example, researchers conduct “stress experiments” on rats and mice

Animal testing is widely used today for a variety of different reasons ranging from testing new medical treatments for serious diseases to testing new cosmetics. Due to the widespread nature of animal testing, there are those who argue that animal testing is morally wrong and that it causes unnecessary suffering in animals. However, there are some that believe animal testing’s ability to reduce human suffering makes it morally right, good, and useful. Throughout this paper, I will argue that testing on animals should be illegal because animals have the ability to suffer just as humans do and animal testing causes animal suffering.

Over 115 million animals are tested in laboratories throughout the United States each year. Typical animals included in these horrific tests include: cats, rats, dogs, rabbits, mice, monkeys, sheep, and birds. Researchers state that about 78,294 animals subjected to cosmetic and medicinal tests face severe pain (PETA, 2017). “Neither Federal nor state law prohibits the transfer of animals to laboratories; they only regulate it” (Favre, 2002). Animal testing is a vile practice of cruelty that is used for testing cosmetic products and research in medicine with regulated inspections; it is often found as unethical and should be

What does Colgate, Band-Aid, Tylenol, Kleenex, L’Oreal, Gillette, Ziploc, and Ben & Jerry’s have in common? They all are companies that test on animals. Animal testing has been a routine process mainly in the cosmetic industry, among others, around the world since the time of the ancient Greeks. Not only is this practice inhumane, but it is also thought to be ineffective by many researchers and scientists. More than half of the tests that are performed on animals have different reactions on humans, and innocent animals are unnecessarily put through cruel treatment. Animals do not deserve to be used as subjects for research work or product testing.

Since the early BC’s, many people, scientists, researchers, and companies have been forcing live animals to be used to test their products on, to study behavior effects, etc. However, in today’s times, people are questioning whether or not animal testing should even be allowed. This query of whether or not to allow animal testing or not is essentially related to how humane it is, and how well it works. As a result, this matter is an extremely contentious one and has allured a lot of discussion. This essay will examine a couple of the discussions on why animal testing is not alright for companies to do, and will profile any of the problems along this situation. It will then state the reasons I think animal testing should be legal, which would be, we eat more than we test, animals have a shorter life cycle than humans, and animal research has helped scientists develop modern vaccines.

Whether animal experimentation is justified or not has been undecided for many decades. Many years back, the debate was carried out by animal rights groups which were led by the Cambridge University to get rid of its plan for a primate research in 2004. Since this debate, many supporters have become more confident in speaking out what they believe and getting their points across to people.