The Pros And Cons Of Animal Testing

Have you ever felt insecure about your appearance? Do you wear makeup to feel more beautiful? Did you know in order for you to feel beautiful an innocent life has been destroyed? Animals are not only being tested on for makeup; they are also regularly used for cruel and extreme medical experiments. Although animal testing has created many medical advancements, it simultaneously degrades and causes harm to the helpless animals.

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.

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.

The Animal Welfare Act protects certain animals from inhumane treatment and neglect. Congress passed the law in 1966, after legislators learned the story of a pet Dalmatian named Pepper who was taken from its family's backyard in 1965 and sold to a dog dealer. The Animal Welfare Information Center was established to provide researchers with a database of alternatives to painful animal experiments and each research facility in the United States using protected species must register with the USDA and establish an Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) to review all experimental protocols involving live, warm-blooded animals (Regulation of Animal Research). Animals are used under terms of the Animal Welfare Act of 1966 and its several amendments. The Act designates that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is responsible for the humane care and handling of warm-blooded creatures and other animals used for biomedical research. The Act also calls for inspection of research facilities to ensure that adequate food, housing, and care are provided. Legislation and public policy

First and foremost, the inaccuracy of animal testing has caused such tragedies in human lives. The animal testing will give the scientist ideas of what may happen, but nothing is secured or accurate. As a matter of fact, ninety-six percent of affirmative tested animal results fail with humans (“Test Drugs With Technology”). For instance, in the 1950s a sleeping pill thalidomide was tested on rats. The drug passed every exam for the thalidomide, but when it was released to the public, it caused ten thousand babies to be born with astringent deformities (“Thalidomide”). Also, a drug, Vioxx, was tested on mice and showed to have protection for the heart. Tragically, when it was released, it caused more than 27,000 cardiac deaths (“Test Drugs

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Have you ever wondered how it would feel to be forced to do things against your will? Every year more than 100 million animals suffer each year. They are forced to eat, get physically hurt, and overall being traumatized. Despite animals not being exactly like humans, they still feel the same pain and emotions as us. Animals should not be used in medical testing or product testing because animal testing is cruel and inhumane with animals being forced to do things they wouldn't want to do.

Each year, more than 100 million animals are experimented on in U.S. laboratories. These experiments are for things such as biology lessons, medical training, curiosity-driven experimentation, and chemical, drug, food, and cosmetics testing.(Procon writers) Animal testing, also known as animal experimentation, is the use of non-human animals in experiments that seek to control the variables that affect the behavior or biological system under study. Animal testing is controversial and people find themselves taking sides on the issue, depending on whether they believe the testing is ethical or not. In my opinion, I feel to further human knowledge and safety through animal experimentation is both necessary and vital. I support continuance of

Every year a variety of animals are put into experiments in laboratories. They are tested using new substances, ointments, nasal spray and many more products. It has been seen throughout our lives where we see pictures or articles that talk about how animals are tortured and abused in these laboratories. From all this, there have been many organizations that started a movement to ban animal testing. This new movement has received a lot of popularity from the people. It has made many companies that are against this find ways to show, print, and tell us that their product was safely tested on animals or not tested at all. They have tried to come up with new alternatives to stop animal testing or to simply hide the fact that they do. One major way they test on animals is using medical products. Also, products that benefit humans are tested on animals before they are sold to consumers. Although there has been much change in the way animals are put through experiments the question still lingers, Should animals experiment with products like medicine?

Animal rights are not as protective as they should be. The topic of animal testing probably evokes images of animals being viciously injected or force fed pills. This is because it is the reality of what animal testing has been for the previous decades. Testing on animals for the benefit of humans is cruel and hurtful to the animals being tested upon. Animals feel the same level of pain that a human does, so why does it make it okay to test unknown substances on a lab rat just because it is smaller and weaker?  In recent years potential animal testing alternatives have shown up, yet it is still highly underused. I agree wholeheartedly that testing products and chemicals on animals for human gain is simply wrong. In this essay I will argue to protect the lives of animals by expressing how cruel animal testing is and how it is the wrong method of testing.

Products that fill the shelves of supermarkets have a more complicated background than many believe. Behind every ingredient that companies list on packaging of cosmetics and medicine, both prescription and over the counter, is a choice that corporations must make regarding the treatment of animals. Laboratories harm animals and even kill them when conducting laboratory tests for new products. Numerous tests have been created since the wide use of animals, such as artificial skin tests that have no negative consequence for them. Global governments have differing laws dealing with these harmful means of production, but many allow this to take place, while even protecting household pets. Many people do not think of the process that precedes products on store shelves. Deadly animal testing with questionable ingredients is constantly being proven to be outdated by new types of tests for both cosmetic and medical uses.

animals is fair and adequate is questionable. The concept of animals being used as a research subject have been found to be an argumentative subject, including their moral inabilities and capacities to decide for themselves and the way they should be treated. Not only that, the inaccurate information that is later found because of replacing human experimentation for animal testing results in animal suffrage and major diseases and sicknesses afterward, but

About every medical advancement in the past one hundred years came about by animal testing (“Forty Reasons”). People are very dependent upon research and the experiments done on animals. Animals should be used in scientific research because the research saves lives, the researchers care for the animals, and the research is properly regulated.

When we buy a hygiene product we tend to look for an inexpensive, yet worthy item that will provide us with what we want, promising results. However, when you read the back of the bottle how promising is the source? Do you truly understand what the ingredients are, the process it takes to make the product and who is involved with creating it? Well, if you know the sources and ingredients of most hygiene products on today’s market, you may be aware that animal testing is the method used to create the product. Animal testing started back in the year of 1966, which was passed by the federal Animal Welfare Act, the method involves testing cosmetics on animals to determine the safety and possibility of allergic reactions caused by products that humans use. Jeremy Bentham once said “ The question is not, can they reason? Nor, can they talk? But, can they suffer? “

Imagine a little girl that got a big cut on her arm and knee. She starts crying , a lot. Her eyes get all red and her arm and knee starts to bleed and she starts to get a black and blue. Animals are the same. It hurts them, but they can’t say or do anything about it. Just because sciences need to test animals that does not mean the people should kill animals that done nothing. Sally Driscoll and Laura Finley states “Did you know approximately 95 percent of the millions of animals used in experiments are mice and rats, with the remaining 5 percent comprised mostly of dogs, cats, guinea pigs, rabbits, birds, and non-human primates (chimpanzees, baboons, monkeys, and macaques).” In addition to research conducted by professionals and scholars, millions of schoolchildren dissect frogs, earthworms, and other animals in biology classes. A lot of animals die around the world each year , or months. This is bad. Nobody want to see a little animal get hurt. Juts like that kid that hated the shot she had to get. Animals testing should be banned because it is not necessary because they are other options, it is unethical because animals are living things, and it is not fair to hurt innocent animals for tests that might now work.