The Pros And Cons Of Animal Testing

To begin with, why is it done? Animal testing is done to protect humans from bad products that may hurt them, also to find ways to cure diseases that haven’t been cure yet. 95 percent of mice and rats are used for research. Mice represented the largest increase in research with their numbers going from 1.2 million to nearly 1.9 million in that period. Other animals also saw increases (Qtd animal experiment up to 73 percent, study says). Other animals that are used in research are rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, farm animals, fish, and insects, and also less than one percent cats, and dog’s area also used for research. Another reason is to treat injuries and learn more about the animal bodies to find the similarity to the human body (qtd. animal research). Animal testing is inhumane when testing to protect humans. Some people say testing on animals are life changing experiments and with the help of animal experiment can discover blood transfusion, kidney dialysis, and gene therapy for example cystic fibrosis and types of cancer( Coster 7). Others think experimenting on animal is cruel and they suffer a lot. It is true

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

In regards to animal research, my opinion is that it is extremely beneficial to medical and cosmetic research, but there should be regulations in order to ensure that these subjects are treated as humanely as possible. Cosmetic testing is a type of animal testing in which cosmetic companies will test the safety of their products for human use. This will allow the cosmetic company to determine if a certain product causes any rashes, reactions, etc. Animal testing for medical research is the use of non-human test subjects in order to observe how certain variables will affect the subject. For example, a researcher would give an experimental medication to mice in order to observe the effects of that medication on their behavior, biological system, offspring, etc. Overall, there are several pros and cons to animal testing for cosmetic and medical research, but the pros outweigh the cons. Regardless of one’s opinion on animal testing, the pros/benefits obtained from this type of testing are extremely hard to refute (Tappenden 1). Animal testing has contributed to countless cures and treatments that have saved thousands, if not millions, of human lives. For example, insulin was discovered through an experiment conducted on dogs that had their pancreases removed. Without this experiment, millions of diabetic patients would have been negatively affected or died. In addition, animal testing is a viable option because it provides researchers with a living test subject that is genetically and biologically similar to humans and it allows researchers to study a test subject throughout their entire lifespan as well as their offspring. The benefit of using animals that are genetically and biological similar to humans is that they are affected by many of the same diseases, conditions, and disorders. In regards to studying these subject’s entire lifespan, it is extremely beneficial that researchers are able to see the effects over an entire lifespan and their offspring’s lifespan because it gives us a glimpse into an area we wouldn’t have been able to observe prior to animal testing. If we were to complete testing on humans, who live about 70-80 years on average, this would not allow researchers and scientists to see the

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.

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.

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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.

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.

Animal testing refers to procedures that take place in human clinical trials and it involves dosing, toxicity and efficiency of drugs. “ Humans beings have long used animals as test subjects for a variety of purposes.” (“Animal”) which violates the living rights of animals. Animals and people are alike in many ways, as close relatives we both feel, think , behave and experience pain therefore animals should be treated with the same value and respect as humans. Animal testing is inhumane and it contradicts the rights of life of an animal, thus animal testing should not be morally justified.

Animal testing is taking living animals to “test 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”(“Harm and suffering”). Those in favour of animal testing believe that human beings and animals share similar illness, and thus animals can serve as valid models for studying human illness. They also contend that it can develop and find medical treatments to treat diseases. However, there are studies that reveal that the research based on animals are inaccurate, and the treatment of the animals at times are inhuman. In essence, animal testing should be banned because it is unethical to kill or harm animals for human’s own goods, will cause more harm than good, animal and human are different which the tests are not relevant to human and there are other techniques that can replace animal testing.

Animal testing has allowed us to develop several medical treatments and procedures that have helped and saved any lives over the years. It is because animal share multiple characteristics with humans, allowing scientists to experiment on them for safety and effectiveness of products we use on a daily basis. News techniques are being developed almost every day, medical research practice medical transplants on animals. This is why animal research is so important. Animals allow us to experiment and improve procedures so we are able to master it, once it’s time to actually do it on a human being.

The use of animals to test medicines, cosmetics and new drugs has been a controversial debate for years. It is estimated that every year, the United States alone uses 26 million animals to test commercial products and medical treatments to determine the different toxicity rates of drugs that will potentially be used by humans (https://speakingofresearch.com/facts/statistics/). The use of animal testing has been proven time and time again to be ineffective and it also is a practice of animal cruelty; many animals are thought to be companions to humans and do not have the ability to speak for themselves. Many different animals are subject to these tests such as hamsters, rabbits, fish, monkeys, dogs, cats, mice and rats have been used for decades as tools for understanding the effects of drugs, medical experiments and even surgery. A multitude of the tests performed on animals are for diseases that animals do not even get, so they are created in a laboratory as an attempt to replicate the disease in animals. Humans are much more complex than animals and do not have the emotional, psychological or hereditary genes that humans do, making the tests performed on animals inconclusive and misleading. Although animal testing has provided some advances in medicine, it is inhumane and cruel, an expensive method of research and not an accurate way of testing the effects of drugs in humans which can lead to horrible side effects, liver failure and even death. Alternative forms of animal

Imagine, the moment you open your eyes you’re ripped away from your mother and siblings, only to be left in a cold, wire, cage. You’re deprived of all socialization, along with nothing to provide warmth and comfort. The only interaction you’re allowed is when massive creatures, with big scary eyes, and rubbery hands reach in to grab you violently out of the cage, to only be poked and prodded with, or worse, locked in a chamber full of gases that make you sneeze and twitch, chemicals dripped into your eyes or rubbed onto your skin, or force fed a nasty pill that makes you feel funny. This is the life that animals who are used in cosmetic testing are forced to live. Im not sure about you, but that is not a life that i would want to live. Animal testing for cosmetic purposes in the United States should be banned due to thousands of defenseless animals under ill-treatment.

For centuries, there has been a continuous debate on the issue of whether or not animal testing is a necessity to the furthering of scientific knowledge for medical advancements and biological understanding. In order to effectively dispute the issue, one must obtain information from valid sources with credible arguments. The following two articles, “Is Animal Testing Necessary to Advance Medical Research?” by Lauris Pycroft and Helen Marston, and, “ Juvenile Animal Testing in Drug Development - Is It Useful?” by Paul Baldrick, have been selected for analysis on whether or not they should be used to debate this topic. The article by Pycroft and Marston provides strong appeals to pathos, but fails to be a supportive source due to being very opinionated and using out of date examples. On the other hand, the article by Baldrick is a strong example of a source with unbiased claims, thorough statistical support, appeals to logos and ethos, along with having well organized ideas, but fails to make an argument for a specific side. Both articles will be analyzed on their ability to give solid facts while remaining unbiased, as well as the level of credibility they obtain by copyright dates, work cited pages, and authenticity of their publishers.

Animal experimentation has been in practice for over centuries. Years ago, it was extremely relevant for new scientific discoveries and advances in medicine. In fact, it has lead to some of society’s major medical advancements; such as organ transplant techniques, anti-transplant rejection medications, the heart-lung machine, antibiotics, and the whooping cough vaccine. Animal testing started as rarely conducted tests and procedures, but the practices have skyrocketed in recent years. As the experiments increased, so did the controversy. Although it may have been beneficial and relevant in years past- society’s morals have changed. The first animal protection law was enacted in 1822; the reasoning behind it was specifically to regulate animal testing. A group called antivivisectionists, meaning those who are against the act of surgery conducted for experimental purposes on a living organism, gained popularity in the late 1800’s. These activists believed that in order to achieve a peaceful society, mercy was needed and vivisection was putting a stop to this. However, this antivivisectionist movement started to decline in the 1920’s. It was thought that this was because of the achievements made in medicines in that era and the leading factor being animal testing. Since then, it has still not been completely banned; however it is still an ethical issue to this day. “Almost all states actively research on animals at present. The total scale of all research on vertebrates is