Should Animal Testing Be Illegal

Animal testing is crucial because without it, scientists might never find developments for biomedical research. Worldwide, there are millions of diseases that create devastation in countless families. However, there are vaccines, cures, and processes that scientists have came up with to help fix this problem. How fast and efficiently they come up with these treatments is the difference in many lives saved. Animal testing has been proven to speed up the process of collecting research

President and science spokeswoman of the Foundation for Biomedical Research (FBR), Frankie Trull, resolutely stated in an interview that, “An immediate end to animal research in the U.S. would be a death sentence for millions of people around the world.” Trull supported her admission by adding, “If you’ve ever taken antibiotics, had a vaccine, had chemotherapy, an MRI, a blood transfusion, dialysis, an organ transplant, bypass surgery, or joint replacement, you have been the beneficiary of research that started with lab animals.” (The Price). To disregard these major accomplishments would be foolishly ignorant, seeing as Trull established, millions of people would not be alive without these advancements. Hundreds of millions more lives have been touched in some way by these medical breakthroughs, whether directly or secondarily. Yet the miracles discovered in the past do not define what we do in the future. The fact that animals have been considerably prominent contributors to research does not mean that this is the only route that can be taken. As previously stated, there are several alternative methods of medical research in the process of being further developed that have already proven to be suitable replacements for animal testing and experimentation. These methods’ results have even shown to be more accurate and possibly more effective than those of animal testing. The continuation of animal testing and experimentation cannot be justified by past successes. Every problem can be solved with more than one

For many years, the field of science has used animals in medical experiments worldwide, because of this innocent animals are being killed everyday. They are being tested with new drugs, new treatments, and by many makeup companies. Connecticut recently celebrated the passage of the “Beagle Freedom Law”, a law that requires laboratories to work with charities and rescue groups to find homes for research cats and dogs. Animals are being tested so humans do not have to be but animal tests do not reliably predict results in human beings, although animals are the closest thing to humans. Most experiments involving animals are flawed, wasting the lives of innocent animal subjects. Over 100 million animals suffer a year from testing. Testing animals is a lot more expensive than alternative methods and it is wasting government research dollars. Animal testing is not only a bad idea, but it is also inhuman and it should not be tolerated. The FDA should stop allowing animal testing. An animal does not give out the same results on a test than a human would.

Approximately 26 million animals are used every year in the United States alone for research and commercial testing (“Background of the Issue” 1). For years, legislators have debated the pros and cons of animal testing, and laws were passed to attempt to fix the inhumane treatment of the cute, innocent testing subjects, the animals. Although the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) was revised numerous times, “the species most commonly used in experiments (mice, rats, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians) comprise 99% of all animals in laboratories” and are the animals that are specifically exempted from protection under the act (“Experiments on Animals” 2). A simple fix to animal cruelty during testing is to use alternative methods since human and animal bodies already vary greatly. For years, animal testing was the best option because there was no alternative to testing on a living, whole-body system; however, in the age of technology, there is no reason for millions of animals to be killed due to the severity of the testing. Therefore, animal testing should be banned because alternative methods provide more accurate results since human bodies are very different than animal bodies; furthermore, animal advocacy organizations should promote cruelty-free products more so customers know what to purchase and use.

The harmful use of animals in experiments is not only cruel and inhumane but also often ineffective. Animals do not get many of the human diseases that people do, such as major types of heart disease, many types of cancer, HIV, Parkinson’s disease, or schizophrenia. There have been past occasions where drugs passed on animals weren’t even safe. There is no excuse for animal testing in today’s techy world, there are now many alternatives for animal testing that would put an end to the pain and suffering endured by these innocent animals during human testing.

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.

Capital punishment dates back to 18th century B.C. in the Code of King Hammurabi of Babylon. Under this code twenty five crimes, excluding murder, were punishable by death. In historical data, the first death penalty was imposed to offender who was blamed for magic in 16th century BC Egypt (Regio, 1997). Unfortunately, death penalty is still practiced in some countries. For example, in Egypt recently on 24 March 2014, Minya Criminal Court imposed death penalty to 529 followers of Egyptian ex-president Mohamed Morsi for their participation in violence (Amnesty International, 2014). Nowadays, United States also practices capital punishment. According to the fact sheet of DPIC (2014) 20 criminals from different states were executed this year

There is much debate over whether animal testing should be allowed or not. Some people think that it is not essential to sacrifice animals for human benefits because they are being abused and tortured severely during experiments. Some others who stand against animal testing claim that humans eliminate many lives on earth in order to safe humans’ lives, so there is no justice because even animals have the right to live on earth, yet these people do not consider the truth that animals are being used in the food industry or in the laboratories. Thus, if someone asks how many animals are being used in the laboratory experiments around the world every year, who can give an accurate answer? It can be one, ten, or fifty million. It is difficult to find the exact figure on this question because people only read news through mass media such as having a new vaccine which can help human avoid uterus cancer or a new medicine help humans cure strokes, but they also need to know how many lives of the animals would have to take in order to get theses vaccines. Therefore, some organizes think that animal testing is one of the most disturbing experiments ever, and it should be banned. Despite many controversies with opposing opinions, a compromise can be made in order to reduce the use of animals in the laboratory experiments.

Apart from being cruel and harmful to animals, animal experimentation is also costly. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, it cost over 1 million dollars to fund each testing facility for one year. One of the largest sources of funding comes from the publicly funded government granting agency, the U.S. National Institutes of Health ("Animal Experiments: Overview." 2011). Approximately 40 percent of the National Institutes of Health's funded research

“Animal testing allows researchers to initially gauge the safety of drugs prior to commencing trials on humans” (Murnaghan, 2017, p. 1). This allows for a decrease in human harm and human lives are saved. A majority of animals used are mammals with a DNA structure close to humans. “This is extremely useful because it gives much more realistic results as to how a human would be affected without having to endanger human lives” (Pros, 2014, p. 1). Alternative methods don’t simulate humans the same way as animals. It wouldn’t make sense to test drugs and products on something that wouldn’t represent humans the most.

Would you like to see animals suffer everyday because of a lab test? Just imagine seeing pictures and videos of harmless animals being tested and tortured for human benefits. A research by Cruelty Free International and Dr. Hadwen Trust estimates about 115 million animals are being used in experiments all around the world each year. Animal testing should be prohibited and not be used for research. The reasons are that the method of animal testing is very cruel and inhumane. Also most experiments that scientists conduct, do not work and the life of an animal is wasted.

There has been a lot of animal testing in the United States and thousands of animals already have been killed. In research and testing, animals are subjected to experiments that can include everything from testing new drugs, poisoning for toxicity testing, burning skin, causing brain damage, implanting electrodes into the brain, maiming, blinding, and other painful and invasive procedures. Animal testing should not be allowed to proceed because millions of animals are getting killed, the results aren't always right, and it is more expensive to test it on animals.

Animal testing is always a behind closed doors situation. Most people are aware that it is happening yet never give it a second thought. An estimate of more then 115 million animals all around the world, including the most common mice, rats, rabbits, and monkeys, are used in experiments every single year (“11 Facts About Animal Testing”, n.d.). And according to change.org the “USA spends $16 billion dollars annually for animal testing at tax payers' expense.” (“Sign the Petition”, n.d.)

According to this website called Animal testing procon.org it tells us how there is 95% of our animals being used for scientific experiments. The animals were not protected in any way by the federal Animal Welfare Act, which will exclude any birds, rats and or even mice bred for research. There were cold blooded animals such as reptiles and or even fish from our oceans. I feel as if Animals should not be tested for scientific experiments because, well, why would people want to be so cruel to animals that can not even speak they did nothing to do deserve such cruelness upon themselves. What I am trying to say is I speak for the animals I love animals and their habitats I would never want to go ruin their precious home or even them. Basically if you have ever seen the lorax, the lorax is trying to protect him and his home, so why ruin a animal that has done no harm in the world. Why do scientific experiments on them when you can do it to someone that is your size.I feel as if Animals should not be used for scientific testing. They are basically living things they do nothing they love their home and themselves. Instead we should use technology. It does no harm to the animals or their habitats of where they live.

In addition, in extreme cases, which are becoming to be more common, animals are put to death from animal testing. “Each year, more than 100 million animals...are killed in U.S. laboratories for biology lessons, medical training, curiosity-driven experimentation, and chemical, drug, food, and cosmetics testing” (“Experiments on Animals”). The injuries from animal testing were already horrible to hear, it is truly appalling to hear how millions of animals are actually put to death from animal experimentation. Also, the millions of animal deaths are definitely not good in the means of animal population of a species and in future lead to animal extinction of a population, in which loosing animal species is proving how humans are the main causes to the extinction of animals.