Taking a Look at Animal Testing

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

An estimated 26 millions animals are used every year in the United States for scientific

The way in which animals are treated during testing is enough to make one's stomach turn. Starved, burned, shocked; the list goes on. For example, monkeys are restrained while chemicals are injected into their skin and eyes. Metal bolts are also screwed into their heads and shocked with electrodes. PETA states that “every year, more than 100,000 primates are experimented on in the United States.” Evidence has been uncovered showing sedated mothers struggling to stay awake and comfort their panicked babies, while scientists laugh in the background. Additionally, thousands of rabbits are victims everyday to the Draize Eye Test, where rabbits are physically restrained while chemicals are placed into their eyes to determine the effects. The products stay in the animals’ eyes for weeks at a time and cause extreme pain and blindness. This may seem like the most horrific thing an animal subject could endure, but it is not even the worst one of all; the list goes on. The horror never stops either: for their entire lives, the innocent

Over the last couple hundred years, our world has expanded beyond its horizons and the new equipment and advanced technology has allowed humans to succeed in many areas, but has also damaged the basic ethics and morals in some of us. Today on television, we see the over dramatized body spray commercials or a famous celebrity advertising their favorite shampoo and stating its claims, but what most do not know is that a couple or couple hundred, animals were killed to approve, by law, of that product. This act is called animal testing, which is the method or experiment that forces an animal to go through any harm or distress (Thew). I do not agree with this practice simply because it harms innocent animals for products that we do not need

Animal testing has been dated back to the BC ages. According to Hajar, experiments were performed on live animals by well-known ancient greek scientists such as Aristotle and Erasistratus. Animals became test subjects throughout many experiments in order to thoroughly comprehend pathology, physiology, pharmacology, and especially anatomy. However more recently animal testing has become a main source of testing for biomedical research and testing of pharmaceutical drugs. As animal testing has become a more common method, laws have been put in place in efforts to make it a more humane practice. In 1938, due to the release of a pharmaceutical drug that became poison to humans, the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act was put in place. The act

Every year in the United States more than one hundred million animals are poisoned, crippled, and abused in labs. Imagine being locked up in a cage your whole life and used against your will to be harmed in a number of ways (“11 Facts”). It does not sound fun does it? Just like us, animals are living. They feel pain and they suffer just like we do. I personally believe testing on animals is wrong because it is ruthless and barbarous, other methods exist today that could replace the need for animals, and these tests do not accurately foresee the results in humans.

Each year, more than 100 million animals are killed in the United States from animal testing. These animals are harmed or even killed more than half of the time that they are experimented on. These harmless animals are taken and forced into captivity for different kinds of testing from day to day. They are forced to stay in cages all day long and only get to eat what they are given based on testing for that day. Animals are just like people; they need to exercise, have interactions, be able to eat when hungry, etc., but laboratories take away these privileges from the animals by trapping them in the lab all day. Animal testing is wrong and harmful in many ways.

Imagine hearing a story on the news, “Women held captive, experimented on, and later killed.” Most you would be horrified to hear of such a thing, yet when you hear that this exact scenario happens to over 115 million animals every year, the same emotions are not felt. Every year 115 million animals are killed in the name of scientific research. Animals lose their lives to further advance humans. Not only is the practice of animal testing cruel, it is also ineffective. It is now thought by many researchers and scientist that animal testing is ineffective. This is since many animals react differently to products than humans. An article as far back as 2006 shows that 90 percent of medications approved for humans after animal testing, proved to

All around the world, we use animal testing to develop new treatments, cures to crippling diseases, and to make sure products are safe for human use. In fact, approximately 26 million animals are tested on in the United States per year. This type of research has been practiced since before 500 B.C. Up until 1966, when the Animal Welfare Act was passed, this type of testing wasn’t regulated. Because of this, our testing methods have become cruel and remorseless. These days, animal testing has evolved into something horrifying and it should not be used nearly as much as it is.

“With all things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one” (William of Ockham). Animals generally are used to be tested on by researchers for a various amount of reasons. Researchers and scientists worldwide, are determined to find solutions to finding cures to diseases, and any other consumer products that include cosmetic products, that humans use. The term FDA (Food Drug Administration) was created in the year of 1906, by Theodore Roosevelt and Harvey Washington Wiley. This act was made to ensure that all consumer products are to be approved and protected by the public health before the products are released to be used by people. Animals are tested on by researchers before all consumer products are released

Drug testing on the animals always remained a bone of contention, since ages. In my view, animal testing is a boon and a curse for the humanity. I feel this way for few reasons, which I will explore in the following essays.

Animal experiments or laboratory animal science have been a popular controversial issue. Since the seventeenth century, there are debates on the ethics of animal testing. The ultimate goal of the development of laboratory animal science, that is, through the animal studies of the phenomenon of life itself, and then push the use of human, explore the mysteries of human life, control of human diseases and aging and prolong human life. Nowadays, Animal experiments are permitted in many countries. In the other hand, there are also many dissenting voices. They said animal testing is ‘inhumane’. It is too cruel and has potentially dangerous to human beings and Ecosystem. However, Animal experiments are generally used in the development and testing of new medicines. It is estimated worldwide that the number of vertebrate animals using for animal experiments ranges from the tens of millions to more than 100 million used annually. And Animal experiment had made a great contribution in the field of science,

Every year, over 100 million animals in the United States are either poisoned, burned, blinded, or abused in laboratories. The animal testing that occurs in the

Millions of animal every year are killed by testing, shooting, and eating them. They are tested on and when killed they just throw them away like trash. When they are being tested on, they suffer, and I just can’t imagine what they go through. They have to leave their homes, family, and friends.

Imagine a life where the only thing you ever have known and ever will know is a metal cage, white lab coats, and numerous painful tests. Millions of animals involved in animal testing live out their days, kept in small cages, forced fed chemicals, injected with drugs, and deprived of anything natural and normal. Animal testing is an inhumane process of the past that has no place in the forward thinking society of today. With continued medical breakthroughs and the development of alternatives to animal testing the outdated, cruel, and inaccurate practice should be made obsolete.