The Pros And Cons Of Animal Testing

Article 4: Duty and the Beast: animal experimentation and neglected interests, D Benatar. (2000) In this article, Benatar brings to the forefront the argument that experimentation on animals should be a great concern because of the suffering and loss of life in spite of the regulations and restrictions that are supposed to guide the practice. Benatar goes as far to claim that animal testing is uncharitable, and does not support

Animal testing has risen as an extremely controversial topic among scientists and animal rights activists. Many see it as a necessary part of finding cures for thousands of diseases. On the other hand, animal rights activists believe it is an inhumane, harsh, and unnecessary flaw in science. The argument can go back and forth but I believe animal testing should not be used in today’s technically advanced era. The laws are flawed, the failures are evident, and the available alternatives prove that animal testing should be indefinitely banned for future science experiments.

Animal testing has become a controversial issue among many people in the world today. Some of these people involved in this controversial debate believe that animal testing is unethical and should be replaced by other methods. The other group of people in this debate believe that animal testing is necessary in order to research new products that cannot be tested on humans. Traditional animal testing forces animals to undergo numerous experiments for different forms of research. Medical, cosmetic, and many other types of research experiments use animals to provide the results on how the new product may affect humans. There are many people that support the use of alternative methods to animal research and then

“Over 100 million animals are burned, crippled, poisoned, and abused in US labs every year” (11 Facts). Animal testing is a very flawed creation in today’s world. This innovation has caused much harm to many animals while also hurting the opinions of animal activists around the world. Animal testing is also known as the use of animals in experiments and development projects usually to determine toxicity, dosing and efficacy of test drugs before proceeding to human clinical trials (Biology Online). The use of animal testing has been around for throughout all of history, it also carries its disadvantages as they diminish the lives of many animals along with their unspoken opinion while also having some advantages, and lastly this notion is very expensive (Scutti).

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

Animal testing is the running of tests and the research done in a laboratory on animals. Some of the tests are done to benefit human lives and other tests are done to determine side effects of a certain household or cosmetic products. It is a topic that has been up for debate for many years not only in the United States, but all around the world. While some support the advances that come from the research others oppose the cruelty that the media projects to society. No matter what one’s opinion of the subject is, it is still something that our society and culture deals with.

Many argue that animal testing is misleading or unsafe and some even believe there are alternatives for all animal research. However, where there are reliable alternatives, most certainly, scientists and many other professionals have used them, that's what the law demands. Advanced computer systems, mathematical models, human tissue and cell cultures can be helpful; but they cannot provide the answers that animal research can (Blakemore, 2008). Moreover, no researcher chooses to use and test on animals where there is no need. Animal research is time consuming and expensive, therefore no scientist gains pleasure from causing an animal suffering and wasting his/her time while doing so. Secondly, critics argue that using animals in the lab to

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.

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.

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.

Ninety-two percent of experimental drugs that are safe and effective in animals fail in human clinical trials because they are too dangerous or don't work. (Top Five, (n.d)). Everything we use from medications and vaccines to makeup and hygiene products; such as shampoo, conditioner all have to be tested and deemed safe for human use and consumption. One way to test to insure these things are safe is to test these products on animals. There are many reasons why animal testing should not be allowed, first being that the results vary greatly between humans and animals, secondly it is unethical and abusive and third there are other methods available to test products. Although people say they’re just animals, product testing on animals is unethical and abusive, and there are alternative options to test.

Observation and experimentation are how we as humans have been able to learn more about ourselves and the world and universe we live in. One of the most common methods of experimentation is animal testing. However, there are controversies surrounding animal testing. There are some that believe animal testing to be cruel and overdone, advocating for the eradication of the practice and further reliance alternative research methods. Groups like People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and other animal rights advocates fall in this category. There are some that believe animal testing to be an invaluable resource and should continue, such as some scientists and research groups. However, there appears to me to be a consensus that is closer to the middle: the belief and understanding that while there are benefits to animal testing, there are flaws in the practice and there should be changes to increase its efficacy while we simultaneously explore alternate testing methods. Many scientists and the National Institute of Health (NIH) subscribe to this idea. I aim to explore the benefits, problems, and implications of animal testing in order to reach a more informed conclusion about a position that is most validated by the information I have used.

and or cells, primates would be used during the experiment since it is the closest related animal to humans and it needs to be closely related to test on because of how specific the information reviewed from the experiments needs to be for it to work on humans. Although this is just one example of animal testing, some of the experiments can be a psychological experiment which does not cause any physical harm to the animals being tested on, such as “a rat learns to press a button” for the cause of receiving food pellets (Collier). This is an example of how not all experiments are cruel experiments that seem close of killing animals for little to no results. Even if there were to be experiments that would cause some sort of physical harm to the animals, animals will be euthanized in the labs with a some anesthetic so the animal “simply goes to sleep” which is not inhumane(Collier). To test mental illnesses, it would need to be tested on a deeper level than just an MRI, it would need to be on a molecular level, which is where an MRI on a human would not be able to work, but seeing it on an animal would which is required to get any results. Yet even with the reasonable cause, many scientists will face much harassment and threats from extremist’s groups causing havoc right in front of their own houses such as destroying property and yelling “truly heinous things” which does not seem fair or right (Collier). Everybody should have the rights to have their own opinions on certain