The Barbarie of Animal Testing

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.

Animal testing is wrong and it is cruel to animals. Each year about five million dogs, cats, rabbits, rats, monkeys, and other animals die in lethal dose tests performed in many states around the United States. During a lethal dose test, the experimental substance is forced into the animal’s throats or is pumped into their stomachs by a tube, sometimes causing death by stomach rupture or from the

be used as they could interfere with the testing, so animals may have to undergo

According to Humane Society International, “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 process, the infliction of pain to study its effects and remedies, and ‘killing by carbon dioxide asphyxiation, neck-breaking, decapitation, or other means.’” As you can see theses animals are being treated cruelly and inhumane, just reading that paragraph makes shivers run down my spine. We use animals for testing when according to Should Animals Be Used for Scientific or Commercial Testing?, “Animal tests are more expensive than alternative methods and are a waste of government research dollars.” Animal tests cost more than alternative methods and as it say in the text a waste of government research dollars. It's crazy to think that this is happening every day since, “Animals can suffer like humans do, so it is speciesism to experiment on them while we refrain from experimenting on humans”(Should Animals Be Used for Scientific or Commercial Testing?). Even though we don't think of animals as humans because they are not, does not mean that they can not suffer like a human. Another thing that most of the animals being tested on are mice, rats, rabbits, and guinea pigs, When 11 Facts About Animal Testing wrote about these animals and what happens to them they wrote, "Several

According to a 2017-18 National Pet Owners Survey conducted by the American Pet Products Association about 85 million families in the United States own a pet. In most homes pets are treated like a member of the family. But what if that family member was legally allowed to be burned, shocked, poisoned, starved, or forced to become addicted to drugs for research? Most people would be heartbroken and outraged! But that is what does happen to the millions of animals that are used in animal testing in the U.S. every year. Animal testing is wrong because it is cruel and inhumane to the animals and because animals make poor test subjects for testing on products or drugs that will be used for humans.

Animal testing is cruel, inhumane, and causes many deaths. To start, according to statisticsbrain.com “There are 76,430,000 cats in the U.S. and 19,500,000 are killed in research each year.” This means that 25% of cats are being killed each year due to animal testing. In addition, P.E.T.A. says “78,294 animals are subjected to severe pain much higher than the average animal pain tolerance.” This means that the people testing the animals aren’t taking into consideration the pain they are giving these animals. As can be seen, most of the cats are being killed because of animal testing and animals are being subjected to pain much more than they can handle.

Furthermore, an animal’s biology is different from a human’s biology, therefore, the testing on humans is still going to be dangerous. (Animal testing is bad science). Over the years, we as humans have become more and more callous to the fact that over a million animals (mice, rabbits, frogs, monkeys, fish, guinea pigs, dogs, etc.) are killed every year for our own cosmetic reasons. These animals are forced to go through unbelievably inhumane conditions. Per Peta, before they are murdered, they may have their skulls drilled into, their spines crushed, their skin burned off, or even immobilized for hours. Rabbits are given shots to test for skin irritation levels, leaving them screaming and kicking until they eventually break their back or neck. (America 6) There are some chemicals tested on animals, that cause minimal discomfort of the animals. However, there are a number that will cause extreme, long lasting pain. To make things worse, animals are not given any type of pain relief. (Issues & Controversies) "They're scalded by chemicals on their skin and eyes, shoved into tubes no larger than their bodies and forced to breathe noxious fumes." (Issues & Controversies) It is

An estimate of 1.4 million animals die each year due to animal testing. As people we have freedom, choice, and the right to live, however animals have a right to live in a world without suffering just as much as we do. Animals just like humans have emotions, thoughts, and feelings, so what makes it right to test on animals any more than to perform tests on humans? The benefits of testing on animals has still not been proven as the treatments that show promise in animals rarely work on humans. There are also many other options for testing techniques that we can use without performing harmful tests on animals, and finally it's entirely unethical. There are many alternatives overall so it is really still considered ethically right to take the freedom of animals just because we want to do research. Animal testing should no longer have a place in our modern day world.

I believe that animal testing is wrong because, the animals are treated inhumanely. Humans have no right to use animals like they are objects that can just be thrown away like they do not matter. These experiments result in extreme and torturous pain. Animals are brought into laboratories and tested on against their will. An estimate of almost twenty-six million animals is used every year in the United States for scientific and commercial testing. Animals are used to check the safety of product, determine how toxic medicines are, and to develop medical treatment. There are many non-animal test methods that can be used. These methods are more humane, they are also faster, and can be closer related to humans, they can also be cheaper than animal testing. “Huntingdon Life Science (HLS) kills an average of 500 animals each day for tests” (Kinship Circle). Sadly, many different species of animals have to indoor these terrible conditions and painful tests, such as, primates, rats, mice, dogs, and cats.

100 million animals die each in the US. Those animals include mice,rats,frogs,dogs,cats,rabbits, hamster,guinea pigs,monkeys,fish and birds. All of the listed animals are used for a biology lessons,medical training,chemical experimentation, drug,food and cosmetic testing. Plus all of these animals are tortured and forced to do things that the animals do not want to do. Animals should not be used for scientific or commercial testing because animals testing can be cruel and inhumane,tests do not reliably predict in human beings, and tests are most expensive than other test and government money is wasted.

Although, animal testing may have saved people from diseases, but at what cost. “All procedures, even those classified as ‘mild,’ have the potential to cause the animals physical as well as psychological distress and suffering. Often the procedures can cause a great deal of suffering” (Humane Society International, 2017). Humane Society International (2017) also listed out common procedures used in animal testing: forced chemical exposure in toxicity testing, exposure to diseases, genetic manipulation, ear-notching, tail-clipping, periods of physical restraint, food and water deprivation, surgical procedures, infliction of pain to study its effects, behavioural experiments designed to cause distress, and killing by carbon dioxide asphyxiation, neck-breaking, decapitation, and other means. Not to mention, all of these procedures are cruel, and the animals can feel pain that has been inflicted upon it. In fact, a majority of these procedures is considered animal cruelty. According to the NDAA (2016), animal cruelty constitutes as “physical harm or killing,” and animal neglect is considered when failure to provide food and water. Practically all of the common procedures fit into these categories. Despite how animal testing aligns with animal cruelty, almost all state laws exempts animals in research (NDAA, 2016). So, it continues. Another negative aspect is how animal testing is unreliable; Humane

Conduction of tests upon animals can date back to around 300 B.C. when two scientists performed experiments on them to better understand how our bodies work. Herophilus and Erasistratus are commonly known as the Fathers of Anatomy. These diabolical tests were very brutal because no anesthesia was administered to the animals. They were even thought to have conducted experiments on living humans (Susan Scutti, Animal Testing: A Long, Unpretty History). It may be hard to believe, but this is still a problem today. In 2010 over 97,000 animals were

One method is computer modeling. Computer modeling stimulates human biology and progression of developing diseases, reported “Alternatives to Animal Testing”. Quantitative structure-activity relationships (also known as QSARs) is a computer based techniques that can replace animal tests by making estimates of the hazards and effects. With this method, the model can give more effective results than animal testing. The Computer Modeling method can replace all of the 115 million animals tested on yearly. Another method is the Organ-On Chips. The Organ-On Chips is a chip that contains the human organs and the organ system, as stated by “Alternatives to Animal Testing”. “Alternatives to Animal Testing” also states the chips are shown to replicate human responses, diseases, etc. The Organ-On Chips can replace drug testing and research. If more companies switched to this method, millions of animals would be saved from torture or death. Additionally, another method is cell-based tissue. “Ceetox developed a method to assess the potential of a substance to cause a skin allergy”(PETA). Cell-based Tissue testing is a variety of cell-based tests and tissue models, according to “Alternatives to Animal Testing”. “Alternatives to Animal Testing” also states that cell-based tissue testing replicates key traits of human skin. Cell-based tissue is easy to get, and replaces the use of guinea pigs in labs. Cell-based tissue can reduce the amount of animal deaths from testing. As one can see, there are effective alternatives for animal

Defenders of animal testing argue that experiments done on animals are justified because the benefits to humans as a result of the experiments outweigh the harm done to the animals. But the value of an animal’s life cannot be superseded by the value of a human being’s life. Millions of animals are tortured to death just for human welfare. According to the Humane Society, registration of a single pesticide requires more than 50 experiments and the use of as many as 12,000 animals (“Animal”). Animals’ safety, well-being, and quality of life is not considered at all. Another justification used by the defenders of animal testing is that many experiments are not painful to animals. This is not true as mentioned in “Pros and Cons”: “Because the U.S. law, Animal Welfare Act (AWA), which governs the use of animals in laboratories, specifically excludes rats, mice, birds, and cold-blooded animals, more than 95 percent of the animals used in laboratories are not even covered by the minimal protection provided by federal laws. Because they aren’t protected, experimenters don’t even have to provide them with pain relief.” Defenders of animal testing also argue that if animals are not used for testing, then human beings will have to be tested on. The fact is that no matter how many tests are done on animals, someone will always be the first human to be tested on. The results of animal testing can even pose a threat to humans because they are so unreliable. Still other defenders think

According to PETA, (People for the Ethical Treatment) over one hundred million animals- including dogs, cats, rabbits, monkeys, mice, rats, frogs, and birds are killed in U.S laboratories for biomedical testing each year. The term “animal testing” refers to the use of live animals in experiments and development projects usually meant to determine toxicity, dosage, and efficiency of test drugs. More often than not, a live animal is forced to undergo pain, distress, and even lasting effects. Because of the AWA, (Animal Welfare Act) Animal testing is only limited to vertebrate animals. Animal testing has been around since early Greek philosophers, but it has not been an ethical concern until recent years as more animal rights groups have formed. A Pew Research study, done in 2009, found that 52% of adults oppose animal experimentation. Animal rights activists are usually arguing the other alternatives to animal testing. I am arguing that while I believe animal testing is unethical and inhumane, some benefits for humans can be provided.