The Human Body And Its Internal Systems

Throughout history, animal experimentation has played an important role in leading to new discoveries and human benefit. However, what many people tend to forget are the great numbers of animal subjects that have suffered serious harm during the process of experimentation. Many people are believed to be ignorant or misunderstand the nature of the lives that animals actually live, and are unable to understand the actual laboratory procedures and techniques. Other than the philosophical questions that arise, ethical (moral) questions are the main reason why many animal right activists want it banned in every country. Activists feel that to this day, there should be no good reason why any living thing should be subjected to this cruel punishment and unwanted torture just for serving another being’s needs.

Animals endure so much pain and suffering when being tested on. In some cases, animal testing can be deadly or lead to serious side effects that will forever stick with the animal that was tested on. Animals hardly ever, to never benefit from testing. In research and testing, animals are subjected to experiments that can include everything from testing new drugs to infecting with diseases, poisoning for toxicity testing, burning skin, causing brain damage, implanting electrodes into the brain, maiming, blinding, and other painful and invasive procedures (NEAVS). It can include protocols that cause severe suffering. Also, can’t forget about the restricted living conditions where animals are forced to live in an unhealthy habitat out of their own element during the testing period. Animals in labs suffer not only pain from protocols, but also severe stress from day-to-day laboratory life. They spend their lives in barren cages, unable to make choices or express natural behaviors. Most never experience fresh air or sunshine, only bars and concrete. Although most think that the Animal Welfare Act protects animals from abuse, it is a common misconception that the AWA protects animals against abuse and harm in the laboratory or in other areas of commerce. This is not true. According to the National Anti-Vivisection Society the AWA regulates the use of animals in research and outlines standards for their care, it does not protect

Over 100 million animals get burned, crippled, poisoned and abused in United States labs every year. Animal experimentation or commonly known as animal testing, is where scientists test their chemicals and products on animals to make sure it is safe for human use. Animal testing should be used because it's not only harming the animals it's costing a lot of money and animal lives.Animal testing should not be used because it harms the animals. Some tests involve killing pregnant animals to test on their fetuses. ¨Many of the tests performed on animals in the name of science, opponents maintain, are downright barbaric, rendering their subjects damaged and disfigured.¨ (Animal testing: Is animal testing morally justified?)With the amount of tests being performed

The term “animal testing” refers to procedures performed on animals for the benefit of humans. An estimated 25 million animals are tested on each year in the United States for scientific and commercial testing. It is used for biomedical research, medical usage, behavioral research, cosmetics, and the list goes on. Research on living animals has been practiced since at least 500 B.C. Many argue that animal testing is necessary for research, but with the medical technology we have today, this has been proven incorrect. The cost of animal testing is hundreds of thousands per year in the U.S. Animal testing is cruel and should not be allowed because it is abusive, expensive, and there are substitutes.

To begin with, animal experimentation provides unreliable test results because of the differences between animals and humans. In the article, Animal Testing is Not Essential for Medical Research, Ray C. Greek and Jean Swingle Greek said,”More than half of the medications released between 1976 and 1985 were taken off the market or relabeled because dangerous side effects were discovered that had not been found in animal experiments.” Many drugs have been found to have unpredicted side effects so testing on animals just shows researchers what the drug would do to animals, not humans. Since the point of animal testing is to test the effectiveness and results of a drug, it

“Given the climate of poor regulatory oversight, many animals are also abused, neglected, and harmed in ways that violate the law”( “Animal Testing and the Law” ) , revealing the horrific underlying effect of animal testing that society does not want to display to the public. Not to mention, many animals are unprotected by the law and forced against their will to undergo a horrid experience—“legal tests include burning, poisoning, mutilating…, and dissecting without painkillers”( “Animal Testing and the Law” ). Many animals are caged behind closed doors that the public cannot see because scientists who use these techniques do not want to upset the public; however, the law is not forcefully used to protect animals in a harmful environment. Furthermore, animals have no voice to establish a strong faith for their future; humans determine the fate and well-being of the animals. Animal Welfare Act, a Federal law that addresses the standard of care animals receive at research facilities, excludes about 95 percent of animals used in research and has low protection for the rest ( “ Animal Testing and the Law” ). Precious animals used in experimental research should be protected fully, if animals are going to be used, otherwise animal testing should be banned if the laws cannot fulfill their duty of protection because of the horrible experiments that may take place. “M.A. Fox

U.S. Food and Drug administration declared that “currently, nine out of ten experimental drugs fail in clinical studies because we cannot accurately predict how they will behave in people based on laboratory and animal studies” (qtd. in "Experiments on Animals: Overview" n.d.).Therefore animal testing is not used in great number to advance knowledge but rather to find the “one-in-a-million” chance that it could help. The fact that animal research for scientific purposes cannot be directly implied to humans most of the time in it of itself brings controversy. This is because subjecting animals to harmful testing for human medical advancement with a great chance that the results cannot be used to achieve said advancement seems inhumane to many.

"Animals in labs are routinely mutilated and subjected to physical and psychological torment every day of their lives. Animals are frequently restrained and cut open without painkillers. Much of this torture is legal." According to Association for assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care (AAALAC). Animal testing seems the same way as abusing an animal because the test animals do not just physically get hurt the animals also get mentally hurt and, most of the time stay traumatized because of the damage these experiments have caused them.  Just in the U.S over 100 million animals are killed because of animal testing. Most of the animals that get killed every year include birds, frogs, rats, dogs and cats, Guinea pigs and many more. As you can see in the animals I just listed many of them are pets that most of us have in our households. All these animals are abused and killed for a new lip gloss that is sold for more than these animals lives. While many believe that animal testing shall stay legal because of the advantage animal testing gives to humans, others believe that the animal testing should be banned and illegal because of the damage it has done to the innocent

During animal testing, many animals are killed after experimenting on them and the others remain alive with injuries and in captivity. 95% of the animals tested are not protected by Animal Welfare Act including mice, fish and birds and they are all suffering abuse and mistreatment. Even with the protection provided by the Animal Welfare Act, some horrific cases of animal abuse in the laboratories weren’t prevented. Some people also find it immoral to test and experiment on animals for the human benefit saying that animals have feelings and do suffer like humans which makes it unfair to experiment on them what cannot be experimented on humans only because they do not have the ability to express their feelings. However, animal rights supporters only oppose scientists but not the farmers who kill animals daily for food but call the scientists cruel for killing animals for the advancement of medical field although, 99% of animals killed are by farmers while only 1% is by scientists (Ian, Should Animals Be Used for Scientific or Commercial Testing?).

Right this second, millions of animals are in cold empty cages waiting to be put out of their pain and misery. Around the country, animal testing trials are going on right now, as we speak. Many do not consider that those animals that are tested on are not taken care of properly, when animals are in pain and scared, they give off negative results, but most importantly, people and animals are different, which creates inaccurate results. PETA is an organization to help protect animals against cruelty. On their website it states, “The only U.S. law that governs the use of animals in laboratories—the Animal Welfare Act—allows animals to be burned, shocked, poisoned, isolated, starved, forcibly restrained, addicted to drugs, and brain-damaged” (“Animal testing is bad”, n.d., para. 21). We do not protect our animals as well as we should, but on top of that, these animals

Imagine being tortured, poisoned, and burned and not being able to do anything about it. This is done to you every single day until you’re dead or not useful anymore. If you are lucky enough you will just be left with scars, eye infections and your skin burned off. This is what animals experience when they are being test on. Animal testing consist of animal experimentation, research, and in vivo testing. It is used to see what will occur to human skin or eyes when the use a certain product, what will occur when they take a certain medicine or for basic biology research. Animal testing is cruel and harming towards animals, millions of them are being used every year. These animals are being water deprived, forced fed, and go through long trials

“The question is not, can they reason? Nor, can they talk? But, can they suffer?” once said Jeremy Bentham. Ninety-five percent of animals used in experiments are not protected by the federal Animal Welfare Act. (“Footnotes & Sources-Animal Testing”1, 3). This means animals suffer through inhuman and cruel pain, animals do not reliably predict results in human beings, and it’s more expensive than alternative methods. Also the animal welfare act has not succeeded in preventing horrific cases.

In addition to the fact that animal experimentation is ineffective, unreliable, and costly, testing on animals also violates animal rights. Do we think that just because we are superior to animals that we have the right to subject these innocent creatures to cruel and painful experiments? The superiority humans feel over animals may be the reason why humans feel less troubled by inflicting pain on animals. Or perhaps humans justify this cruel act by saying that animals would not be used in experiments if their use was not absolutely necessary. The pain and misery these animals are put through is absolutely unjustified, especially since the experiments they are subject to are proven to be unnecessary and even pointless. As Ingrid Newkirk states, animals in the laboratories are "under constant stress from fear, the loss of control over their lives, and the denial of all

Animals are subjected to tests that are often painful or cause permanent damage or death, and they are never given the option of not participating in the experiment. There are over 100 million animals are burned, crippled, poisoned, and abused in US labs every year. (11 Facts About Animal Testing) Animals can feel pain and experience pleasure. They should have the same moral status and deserve equal treatment. (The Ethics of Animal Experimentation) Vivisection is one of the most painful procedures that animals go through. Vivisection is the cutting open of live animals for experimental purposes.(Last Chance for Animals) Billion of animals have been burned, crushed, sliced, electrocuted, poisoned with toxic chemicals, and psychologically tormented for scientific research. The problem is only getting worse. There has been over 820,812 animals used in harmful testing in

To start, look at the scientific limitations to using the animals in the experimenting. “Despite the fact that the scientific world continues to embrace the use of animal testing, many scientists consider this act barbaric and ruthless” (Food and Drug Administration 34). They argue that it is not as reliable to use the animals for the experimenting because it is not certain as to how the animal’s reaction will compare to the humans. Another issue is that some doses of medications for these small animals could be completely different for the humans and therefore is not beneficial and simply a waste. A prime example on how unreliable animal experiments are is a drug called Clioquinol. According to the Food and Drug administration, “This drug was declared safe in stopping or controlling diarrhea in 1970s in Japan” (Food and drug administration 37) To the surprise of those scientist who tested this drug, the Clioquinol was what was causing people to have diarrhea. The result of this was fatal to many and left others blind. Along with the previous example, the medical journal in Britain evaluated several scientific reviews concerning the influence of animal experiments in clinical research in 2004 (Food and Drug Administration 37). In many occasions, the research founded by scientist showed that some of the drugs used were dangerous. The results of their studies could later lead to a conclusion that some drugs are dangerous yet scientists are still allowing them to be used. It is