The Pros And Cons Of Animal Testing

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

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.

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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?

It is estimated by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) that over one hundred million animals are killed each year by animal testing. The term “animal testing” refers to experimentation that takes place before human clinical trials to determine the dosing, toxicity, and efficiency of products for humans. This includes animals being tested for medical research, cosmetic products, and curiosity-driven experimentation. Many times this leads to animals being treated inhumanely and has led to serious controversy over whether animal testing is actually effective. In fact, animal testing is frowned upon because studies show that testing animals are not a direct analogy to impacting humans, animal testing also kills an unprecedented number of animals, and throughout the year’s scientists have found alternative methods for creating beneficial products for humans.

Joseph Murray, winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for medicine, once said, “There would not be a single person alive today as a result of an organ or bone marrow transplant without animal experimentation.” Animal experimentation is research conducted on live specimens such as mice, rats, and chimps in order to develop medicines and medical procedures. It has helped develop many cures for diseases, and has greatly increased our knowledge in the medical field. Animal testing is ethical, beneficial, and necessary for humans.

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.

The use of animals in the medical realm has been prominent for a long time, in fact, it dates back to ancient Greek times. Although there are many controversies surrounding it there are those who object the use of animal experimentation in any research sphere including the medial aspect. Some argue that there is a need for animals in the medical field, suggesting that animal experiments are necessary for the advancement of medicine. Although the causes that give rise to animal testing may sound justified. Animal testing itself has given rise to those who oppose it, the animal rights activists. The use of animals may have been necessary to the medical domain in the past, but there are plenty reasons why animal experimentation should not exist today or nor in the future. Such as the ethicality of using animal, the options of a variety of alternative methods and lastly the questionable scientific accuracy of the research.

Your beloved grandpa hasn’t been feeling well recently. When he goes to the doctors, they say he needs a heart transplant. After they find a suitable heart, your grandpa goes to surgery. He is now good as new. Now, imagine a world without animal testing. You may think that it would be the same, but he would be dead. Organ transplants are one of many results that came out of animal testing. Animal testing is when you run tests on an animal to find out the impact of a certain product. In the United States, millions of rats, mice, birds, fish, and other animals are used every year in tests. These tests can test the effectiveness of a new painkiller or determine if a shampoo causes skin or eye irritation ("Animal Experimentation").This isn’t new because animal testing has been used for centuries. For example, in the fifth century BC, the Greek philosopher Alcmaeon learned what caused blindness by looking at the inside of a dog's eye. The Greek physician Galen studied animals' anatomy and physiology by dissecting live animals. His work was used widely throughout the centuries as a medical reference. Also, in the seventeenth century, English physician William Harvey observed living animals by cutting them open as to determine how the heart worked and how blood flowed through the body. Harvey's results largely impacted science and medicine of the era ("Animal Experimentation"). If we stop animal testing, we could halt our progress in medicine. Although people may say animal testing

An estimated 115.3 million animals around the world are used every year for commercial and scientific testing(“Experiments Around World”). The use of these animals in testing is to develop ideas and drugs for medical treatment, determine how toxic the medicines are, check the safety before human use, and many other diseases and health care issues. So are animals the best option that scientists have to test on? Right now there are millions of mice, rabbits, cats, dogs, primates and other animals stuck in cages across the country so alone and frightened(Animal Testing 101). These harmful tests that scientists perform on animals represent bad science and a highly unethical practice.

Many people buy products that were tested on animals without realizing it. Companies like Victoria’s Secret, Dior, Maybelline, and many other companies all test their products on animals. Each year over one-hundred million animals in the U.S. die in laboratories for experiments. Animals such as dogs, cats, pigs, birds, rats, and mice have all fallen victim to animal testing. Animal testing certainly did help humanity, but it is no longer a moral or efficient way to test products. Alternatives such as using In vitro testing, using computer models, using volunteers, and using 3d printed parts are more efficient and humane.

Animal testing entails the subjection of animals to cruel acts such as decapitation, neck-breaking, killing by asphyxiation, infliction of pain, infliction of wounds, physical restraint, forced feeding, deprivation and other unimaginable conditions (Foëx 34). However, we tend to justify these acts as acceptable since they are meant to better the quality of human life. This can be compared to the infliction of pain on others for our own

Throughout history man has suffered from a myriad of diseases and health conditions that we only know more about and can treat or prevent through animal testing. Animals in captivity are not only used to advance medical research, but also to prevent species extinction and for educational purposes. The debate about holding animals’ captive has been a long and heated one that has no endpoint anywhere in sight. The main argument of the opposition to using animals in biomedical research, zoos and aquariums is that animals are treated in inhumanely.

Throughout the years, controversial topics such as animal testing have morphed into a variety of different questions. Scientists are always coming up with new topics to debate. Many people often overlook the effects of animal testing. This has been going on for decades since many are unaware of the results and the damages animal testing can cause. However, as time progresses, more people are becoming more informed about this and taking it into action. Animal testing is cruel and inhumane since many innocent animals’ lives are being taken due to our selfish needs. During 2000-2010, scholars argued that animal testing can be reduced or improved in other ways rather than eliminated completely. Although, from 2010 and on that conversation has changed to whether or not computer programming could work as a permanent alternative since there was research that proved this experiment to be valid. Such as, in vivo testing, which literally means ‘in glass’ experimentations that does not require animals at all.

What would you do if you were forced to live in filthy conditions, subjected to various tortures and horrifying ordeals? This is the life of an animal kept as a tool for scientific research. The debate over human animal testing has been ongoing for many years, starting as early as the 19th century. However, animal testing has been recorded as early as 500 BC, and has been practiced ever since. People have been advocating for more humane practices for animal testing since the 19th century, when Queen Victoria publicly displayed her disgust at these practices. Scientists should not continue animal testing because there are alternatives that are safer for the animals, the treatment of said animals has been shown to be inhumane, and the testing done on some of these animals does not even translate to humans.