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When Is Animal Testing Bad

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If you have animals at home, how much do you love them? Would you do anything for them? How would you feel if someone took them and did tests on them? Some people think it is okay for animals to be used for testing. However, some people think that testing things on animals is cruel. I am also one to believe that testing products on animals is not okay. It is cruel to use animals for testing. Another reason why we should not use animals for testing is the fact that many of these experiments have flaws and don’t work correctly. Also animals can suffer the same way that humans do.
It is both cruel and inhumane to do experiments on animals. For example, “The Draize eye test, used by cosmetics companies to evaluate irritation caused by shampoos …show more content…

“A 2009 peer-reviewed study found serious flaws in the majority of publicly funded US and UK animal studies using rodents and primates.” (Con 9). (http://animal-testing.procon.org/). If they found something wrong with the majority of the studies then there definitely needs to be something changed. “Since the majority of animals used in biomedical research are killed during or after the experiments, and since many suffer during the studies, the lives and wellbeing of animals are routinely sacrificed for poor research.” (Con 9). (http://animal-testing.procon.org/). While performing tests or experiments that are inaccurate you scientists are wasting the lives of precious little animals. I understand not all tests are accurate, but to do that same inaccurate tests over and over knowing it’s not going to work really makes no sense at …show more content…

“Current research provides compelling evidence that at least some animals likely feel a full range of emotions, including fear, joy, happiness, shame, embarrassment, resentment, jealousy, rage, anger, love, pleasure, compassion, respect, relief, disgust, sadness, despair, and grief.” (http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org/content/50/10/861.full). By experimenting on animals they are suffering the same way a human would if they were being tortured. However, under those circumstances, humans could try and fight back whereas animals are unable to do so. There are alternative things scientists could do instead of hurting animals. They could do testing in vitro, which is also known as the test tube method. Also as I previously said they could do the experiments on criminals that are in prison for life. There is a method called microdosing. Microdosing is a method “in which humans are given very low quantities of a drug to test the effects on the body on the cellular level, without affecting the whole body system.”

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