The Effectiveness Of Animal Testing

Animal testing is wrong because it keeps the animals in captivity; they are constantly trapped and used for human benefits. Animal testing is also harmful to the animals because they are sometimes hurt, or even killed due to the experiment. It is very unlikely that the animals are unaffected by tests done in the laboratory. In addition, animal testing is wrong and unnecessary since humans and animals are not the same. The effects of the experiment are sometimes completely different from animals to humans; therefore, they make poor test subjects.

Various studies have shown that animal experimentation often does not even help humans. Some even lead to harmful human reactions to the drugs being tested on animals. Yet we continue to use animal testing while other courses of action exist that do not involve harming an animal.

Many of us are unaware of the sheer number of animals that undergo constant suffering in the name of human vanity. Animal testing was originally introduced in the early 20th century and is still prominent today. It is morally unacceptable to experiment on animals for human purposes. The procedures used in animal testing are cruel and inhumane, nor are they the most reliable source of data; resulting in many mishaps. Moreover, with the perpetual advancements in technology, there are several alternative methods making animal testing unnecessary. If testing cosmetics and drugs on humans is unacceptable, what makes it acceptable to test on animals?

Animal testing has helped us for years discover cures for sickness in humans and sometimes even animals. But as long as they test the animals humanely, animals can be tortured with pain from the testing. However many efforts are being made to reduce the testing to a minimum. Scientists know that without the tests they wouldn’t know how to check the safety of new drugs.

When you think of cosmetic animal testing, what images come to mind? Do pictures of burned eyes and irritated skin appear? Well, it should. The FDA (Food & Drug Administration) has given a claim stating, “The FD&C Act does not specifically require the use of animals in testing cosmetics for safety, nor does the Act subject cosmetics to FDA premarket approval” (“Product Testing - Animal Testing & Cosmetics” 1). According to this statement by the FDA, animal testing is not mandatory, so why do researchers continue to use it? It should be forbidden to use species of animals for cosmetic research and inhumane cruel experiments. Running test and experiments on innocent and voiceless animals can lead to the cause of their unnecessary deaths, have misleading research, and end up wasting (or costing) too much money.

For years, the French cosmetic company L’Oréal has coined the slogan, “Because you’re worth it.” However, a look behind the scenes of the cosmetic industry as a whole begs the question: is it really worth it? Over a hundred million animals ranging from mice, rats, rabbits, primates, cats, and dogs, are locked in laboratories across the U.S. and are subjected to chemical, food, cosmetic, and medical tests for human benefit (“Animal Testing 101”). Many of these animals are severely mistreated, and bear the pain of procedures gone wrong. On the flip side, products and medicines have been made safer and more reliable due to the positive contributions of laboratory tests. The issue has sparked over the last several years, leading many people to

Animal testing has long played a part in the science of testing, and it still plays a very important role in the medical world. Testing on animals in order to create a cure for AIDS is one thing, but testing on animals for human vanity is another. Animal testing is used to test the safety of a product. It has kept some very unsafe substances out of the cosmetic world. However, in this day in age, animal testing is not the only way to test the safety of a product. Animal testing in cosmetics has decreased over the years. However, it is still used by many companies in America. Animal testing is not only cruel, but it is also unnecessary in today’s advanced scientific world.

When it comes to the topic of animal testing most of us will readily agree that it is a debatable topic. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is on the question of whether animal testing is effective in finding cures. Whereas some are convinced that it is very effective and has been the cause of major medical breakthroughs, others maintain it is not effective or safe because humans and animals are not genetically the same. My own view is we should not use animals for testing because it cannot always be accurate or safe, instead we should use computer simulations like Quantitative Structure- activity Relationships (QSARs) and Human patient Stimulators which are safer and accurate.

It may be true that animals helped the emergence of some medicine, yet the cake is not worth the candle. As it is suggested by Akhtar (2013), there are significant differences between animals and human beings in terms of disease development. This is the first reason why animals should not be used for scientific experiments. It is because of the fact that creating diseases artificially cannot occur properly in an environment that is not natural. For example, natural diseases in humans such as stroke need a complex physiology that animals do not have (Akhtar, 2013). Therefore, using human beings in scientific experiments instead of animals can be a suitable solution. Although it is claimed that there is no satisfactory alternative to testing (Mercury, 2012), as it is suggested by Vijay (2013), there are alternative testing methods to animal testing such as using human tissue culture and donated human cornea instead of living creatures like rabbits in a digital environment

Animal testing, also known as animal experimentation, or animal research, is the use of non-human animals in experiments. While most people think animal testing is necessary, others are upset by what they see as needless suffering. Experimentation on animals help scientists increase knowledge about the way the human body works. Animal research can also expand the knowledge of biological, medical, psychological studies, and has led to vaccines against smallpox, measles, mumps, and diphtheria and tetanus. Sources of laboratory animals vary between countries and species, most commonly used animals that the experiments are conducted with include: mice, rats, rabbits, guinea pigs, and dogs. The research is conducted in universities, medical schools, pharmaceutical companies, farms, defense establishments, and commercial facilities that provide animal-testing services to industry. The earliest references to animal testing are found in the writings of the Greeks in the second and fourth centuries BCE. Aristotle and Erasistratus were amongst the first to perform experiments on living animals. Avenzoar, an Arabian physician in 12th-century Moorish Spain who also practiced dissection, introduced animal testing as an experimental method of testing surgical procedures before applying them to human patients. All animal experimentation should be outlawed because animal testing is unethical, inaccurate, and costly.

The effectiveness all up of this survey was good I didn’t have many problems with me getting information from people and collecting it all together and providing a analysis on what information was given to me. It was effective because I wanted to see people thoughts and opinions on how they thought about testing on animals and I had understood that most people are against that idea. I saw that people would take a cure for any type of disease even if it was tested on a animal because they seem to not have a problem with that because it would cure them. No one knows about any diseases that was cured from testing on animals. People mostly disagree that animal testing is worth the lost of the animals however some people are unsure on weather they

Scientists should be allowed to test on animals with no restrictions because oddly enough it benefits animals more than it benefits humans. Even though it doesn’t seem like that would be true, it very much is. One of the best examples of how animal testing helped other animals was when scientists got together to do lab tests on animals and they ended up finding out how to stop rabies. Rabies is a terrible disease that animals normally get. The symptoms are foaming of the mouth, madness, convulsions, muscle aches, and it can be transmitted through to humans through a bite. Although this mainly affects animals and rarely humans the testing on the animals that found the vaccination was very good either way because if an animal has rabies and is

Although animal testing has been taking place for centuries, it is still very common for scientists and researchers to create defective drugs due to impaired animal tests. Much of this failure stems from the fact that the genetic makeup of animals versus humans are very different. Opponents to animal testing argue that you can not compare a human body and their complex systems to a rat that weighs less than a pound. Scientists are looking at two species on completely different scales. On the other hand, proponents for animal testing compare human DNA to the fact that 99% of it is shared with chimpanzees. Regardless of this, Paul Furlong, a professor of clinical neuroimaging at Aston University in the United Kingdom, presents that “it’s very

Did you know that animal testing facilities not only test on animals, but they abuse the animals if they don't behave? The animals are abused emotionally and physically. The animals don't get any love and they get hit to top it all off. Animals should not be used for scientific resources because a lot of the tests put animals in danger, the test can grow from danger of death, and animals have rights just as you and I have rights, and give them a voice.

Imagine: you’re in a room less than a foot long. There’s nothing inside this room, just you. There are tubes in your mouth and nose as chemicals get pumped into your system; there’s a schedule for you of when you will eat, sleep and get physically tortured. These tortures can vary from being forced to inhale toxic fumes or be fed poison with corrosive chemicals rubbed on your skin and eyes. Imagine living like this for five minutes; now make it a day and now for one whole year.