The Pros And Cons Of Animal Testing

It is not often that one sees the gruesome ways of animal experimentation in person. In short, it is the use of non-human animals in labs to find variables that affect the behavior of the human biological system (Google). Many people-like the PETA organization or the Humane Society-oppose these practices, but even this opposition is not enough to stop testing from happening for things such as cosmetics testing, chimpanzee experimentation, and genetically engineered farm animals. Although some of the testing produces positive results-such as a drug working-it is at the expense of millions of tortured animals; therefore, a simple solution would be to prohibit the use of animals in research.

Twelve million animals are used by EU researchers to test drugs, products, and cosmetics every year; that’s 137 animals suffering cruel, painful experiments every ten minutes. Along with that, only about 10% of lab animals have been registered into official statistics. Even animals that are protected under the Animal Welfare Association (AWA) have been abused and tortured. Testing on animals is undoubtedly wrong due to the fact that it is often inaccurate, inhumane, cruel, and violates the rights of animals.

The animals being tested may be 99% similar to us, but the other 1% could lead to many errors as animals vary to much in anatomy and biology and are insufficient models for humans. Animals endure chemicals being dropped into their eyes, injected into their bodies forced up their nostrils or forced down their throats. They are addicted to drugs, forced to inhale/ingest toxic substances, subjected to maternal deprivation, deafened, blinded, burned, stapled and infected with disease viruses. Animals endure significant amounts of stress and some are even held in confinement for an uncounted amount of time. Some experiments on animals require animals to die as a part of the test, for example, regulatory tests for botox, vaccines and some tests for chemical safety are essentially variations of the cruel lethal dose 50 test in which 50% of the animals die or are killed. Were all familiar with the phrase “putting lipstick on a pig” but some corporations are thoughtless enough to take it literally. Cosmetics companies have promoted animal testing for years. While some argue it offers insight into human endangerment. The FDA reports that 92% of drugs approved for testing in humans fail to receive approval for human use. This

Every year an estimated 26 million animals in the United Sates are tested on. Animals are used to test medical products, makeup, and many other everyday used products. The processes that these animals go through is very painful, and most times leave horrible side effects. Testing on these animals is cruel and inhumane.

Animal testing is the inhumane usage of animals to test products meant for humans, to see if it will harm skin, eyes, etc. The process involves inflicting torture methods such as burns, wounds, neck breaking, decapitation, force feeding, deprivation of food and water, and many more methods. (34) Some products being tested on eyes involves “rabbits being incapacitated in stocks with their eyelids held open by clips, sometimes for multiple days, so they cannot blink away the products being tested” (34). Each year, 100 million animals are killed in the U.S for commercial testing. According to the U.S. torture code of law, if done to a human, this crime can result in no less than 20 years in prison and sometimes even death, depending of the severity of the situation (42). The fact that animal testers are off the hook, even paid to do so, is unfair to the animals who can not speak for themselves. The real problem with this is that because the animals have completely different bodies and systems than humans do, the results are not always valid (34). This means they do these terrible things to the animals for nothing, for a result that may not even be

Almost every medicine that can be found in an average person’s medicine cabinet has been tested on an animal at one point or another. A government funded corporation called the Food and Drug Administration, abbreviated as the FDA, is in charge of making sure that all drugs, cosmetics, biological products, and more are efficient, secure, and safe for human usage. The FDA will not allow any drug to be released or sold to the human population if it has not first been tested on animals. In fact, when a drug is first created it is tested on animals before humans are even allowed to test the drug at clinical trial centers. Whether or not animal testing should be done for scientific purposes, has been a widely argued topic for many years

Scientists have a choice to make: they can choose to use animals and torture them or they can use alternatives like artificial skin from humans or animals to see how they react. Everyday thousands of animals are being tortured for science. The experiments that are performed on these poor animals are very inhumane.

Despite controversy over animal testing, according to statistics conducted by the Foundation for Biomedical Research, roughly 95% of all lab animals are some strain of mouse or rat. () Scientific researchers rely on mice and rats for several reasons, one being convenience. Rodents are small, easily housed and maintained, and adapt well to new surroundings. They also reproduce quickly and have a short lifespan of two to three years, allowing several generations to be observed in a relatively short period of time. Another reason laboratories use rats is in order to obtain genetic purity and consistency; rodents raised for animal testing can be bred so that they are almost genetically identical to prevent any bias in experimental results (Iannaccone & Jacob, 2009). What makes rats most

In this world today we don’t think about much. There are multiple things going on behind the scenes, and we’re oblivious to it all. One of those things being animal testing, animal testing is a big problem in today's society, not many people know what's going on in hiding. Animals can feel pain just like us, and with some of these experiments, the pain an animal can experience is tremendous. Therefore, animals should not have to suffer excruciating pain for our beauty products or medicine when there will always be a first human tester, especially when there are multiple times the test could pass on animals but not on humans.

The use of animal testing to conduct research on medical and pharmaceutical products is a divisive and controversial subject. The main arguments against animal testing are the inhume conditions in which animals are kept, and the suffering inflicted upon test subjects (Van der Zee; July 18, 2013). Despite the ethical issues with animal testing, an equally compelling argument can be made about the need for this practice to minimize risks to human test subjects. Throughout the years, animal research has been essential to the development of ground breaking medical discoveries such as penicillin even if such discoveries came at the expense of millions of animals that may have suffered or died during or because of these experiments (Lobanovska & Pilla, 2017). This paper intends to establish that despite its drawbacks, animal testing is a necessary evil for the sake of scientific progress.

According to the National Institutes of Health, animal testing has been around since the days of philosopher Aristotle. According to ProCon.org, there are an estimated 26 million animals used for scientific and commercial testing in the U.S. alone. Animal testing has brought many good things to the medical world, such as the treatment various disease. Also, the animal is being tested by many cosmetics companies. On the other hand, organizations like PETA- People of Ethical Treatment of Animals have fought against the medical testing of animals. There are pros and cons that come with the usage of animals in the biomedical and cosmetic testing, and each side needs should be carefully examined before deciding one way or another.

Imagine an innocent little rabbit...who was taken to a dark lab... and had makeup viciously rubbed on their skin...burning like fire. Having their eyes clamped open with no way of freedom with irritating fluids rushing in the rabbit’s eyes blinding them. Why would people be okay with this tiny animal being tortured? Animal experimentation is wrong and cruel to animal species. Medical and cosmetic testing has been done for years and it has been a controversial issue for some time. Some people having been debating whether or not there should be animal testing for past years. As stated by Sally Driscoll and Laura Finley, animal experimentation has been used for beneficial research, but is not worth the lives and abuse of the animals. Sadly, the ProCon organization explains “how over 26 million animals are mistreated each year for both scientific and commercial purposes.” Continuing animal testing is like people smoking cigarettes. It is an issue that is just being ignored and has to be stopped. Animal testing should be banned because it cannot always be accurate, there are other options that can benefit research efficiently, and it can kill and torture animals.

In 2014 a group organization called People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) noted that more than 100 million animals are harmed or killed during animal testing. Animal testing is cruel and inhumane. Animals are being used for medical testing, but are not being cared for before, during, or after testing. Animals and humans are very similar, in that we have the same organ system which performs the same tasks in a similar fashion. Even though animals and humans share comparable DNA, we fail to see the similarities in physical and emotional pain that animals endure during testing. Subjecting even one animal to that type of cruelty, all in the name of science is one too many.

More than 100 million animals are killed in United States laboratories every year. These animals include mice, rats, frogs, dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs, monkeys, fish and birds. Many companies and cosmetic brands still test on animals, even knowing the torture that comes with it. During this testing there are several different types of tests being ran on the animals, most are painful and cruel. There are many questions about animal testing, is it necessary? Is it humane? What happens during testing? What can one do to solve the problem?

Over 100 million animals are killed in experiments in the U.S. alone each year, according Laboratory Animal Resource Center at UC San Francisco. At the University of Missouri a study was done were they intentionally damaged the corneas of the dogs and given a topical acid treatment that was supposed to heal the eye, it did not, and the beagles were eventually put to death. Because of the cruel nature of animal testing, there should be an alternative.