When Is Animal Testing Wrong

Animal testing is a common practice in current life that is necessary to ensure the safety of the humans that will be using the tested product. There are many good and bad aspects of animal testing, but the pros clearly outweigh the cons. Animal testing has been around since ancient times when animals were dissected to gain knowledge about the body and organs. The animals killed from animal testing make up a tiny percentage of the total animals killed every year. When just considering the animals used for food compared to the animals used for testing, testing animals make up a mere 2.6 percent of that number. Public safety far outweighs the lives of the small amount of animals killed.

Imagine walking into a cosmetic or medical research laboratory and seeing thousands of animals locked up in cages, deformed, injured, even dead. In 2010 a total of 26 million animals in the US were tested on (thehastingscenter.org). Animals have the closest genetics to humans than anything else yet animal testing is a cruel and inhumane job and not all animals have similar organ functions to humans. Animals should not be used for scientific or commercial testing.

Did you know animal testing is really bad for animals? People burn, poison and shock helpless animals everyday just so they can collect a tiny bit of data. Why would people waste their time everyday abusing animals? We need to stop this kind of research because animals are getting brutally hurt, it is happening illegally and is often unregulated, and also most animal testing is ineffective on humans.

One reason that animal testing is horrible is that animals are not able to have a say about being tested on. Animals are not able to specifically say if they are in discomfort. Most of the time they are put through tests that can and will cause severe pain to them. Researchers discriminate against animals because they are not able to maintain the same cognitive abilities that humans have because they cannot speak, or have moral judgment, (Con Animal, par. 10). There is no need for about 56 billion animals to die from failed experimental testing. The majority of research animals used are killed during or after the experiments. Their lives are forcibly taken for poor research that could have been fixed with the proper information, (Con Animal, par. 9). Researchers use too many animals for testings whether it is for cosmetic or medical reasons, that will cost the

Thousands of animals are hurt and even killed because of animal testing every year. Scientists use animals of all kinds, apes, mice, rabbits, cats, etc. to experiment on. These experiments range from giving them drugs, to see what effect they might have on humans, to testing what extreme heat would do to the human body. The outcome of these experiments are often harm and even death. Animal testing is not morally justified because it causes harm to live animals, there are suitable alternatives to animal testing, and there are too many differences between humans and animals to be able to call the outcome “Accurate”.

Today animal test subjects such as white rats are used in experiments such as drug testing to make sure it is safe for humans and as a result some animals die. Most scientists live by certain moral most of which are humane unlike Nazi scientists. In their eyes, the perfect test subjects to use were humans, mostly concentration camp inmates. Leading and foremost Nazi doctors were caught and brought to justice before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg after the end of World War II. The trail exposed evidence of inhumane and immoral human experiments performed at the Buchenwald, Auschwitz, Sachsenhausen, and Dachau concentration camps. Twenty Nazi doctors were charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity. Ever

Animal testing is cruel, unnecessary, and preventable. According to the article Argument against animal testing “The support for animal testing is based largely on anecdote and is not backed up, we believe, by the scientific evidence that is out there.” What is being said about animal testing is just based on a story and it is not being backed up with actual proof that we need. People believe whatever scientists are saying, but, how do we know what they are saying is true? Many people say animals do not get hurt during testing because they think that animals are protected under the Animal Welfare Act. But in reality is The Animal Welfare Act is not doing anything beneficial toward animals. Noah Berlatsky noted that “The Animal Welfare Act allows animals to be burned, shocked, poisoned, isolated, starved, forcibly restrained, addicted to drugs, and brain-damaged.” This is not protection. We need effective laws against

Animal rights argue that researches on animal is an unethical or a cruel way of obtaining cures for humans. During examination more than 10 billion animals die due to the wrong administration of injections. Many animals are subjected to forced inhalation, feeding, dehydration and burns. During assessment animals are put through severe sufferings such as electric shocks, brain damage, blinding, withholding of food and water, immobilization of entire body and other painful procedures. Many of the animals die before or sometimes after the experiment. Some of the lab experiments which cause extreme discomfort and sufferings are anesthetization, intubations and euthanasia, when performed improperly. Unfortunately, the lack of experience and

An estimated 26 million animals are being tested on yearly. Animal testing has helped humanity in many ways ever since it started about 2,500 years ago. Cures have been created for many viruses and sicknesses but it has come with a cost to the animals. Animals are being put in horrendous living conditions that often cause them anxiety and pain. People in favor of animal of animal testing argue that we should keep testing on animals to further scientific research, while those against animal testing believe that there are other ways to achieve the same results.

Animal testing is very wrong, but at the same time is right. I personally think is very wrong. An estimate of 26 million animals is tested every year in the United states for scientific and commercial testing. Animals are used to develop medical treatments, to see how medications work, to check the safety on products made for humans, and for health care uses. Experimenting on animals was happening since 500 B.C. Some people think experimenting on animals is cruel and wrong. Also that animals are so different from human beings. In other hands, people say they are able to develop numerous life-saving treatment for both humans and animals.

Animal testing is inhumane. There have millions of innocent animals that have suffered a vicious, painful death due to animal testing. In research labs, animals are screamed at, beaten, and stuffed into small cages when researchers are done using them. Dissection at schools is also wrong. They cut open defenseless animals, just to see how there insides work. Animals and humans aren't even exactly alike. “92% out of every 100 drugs that passed animal testing failed clinical trials on people,” . Every year in the United

For decades now animal testing has been a known method in society. The downside of the reality is society is not fully aware of what is going on behind closed doors, and the severity of what animal testing truly is. Although there have been many points where animal testing has proven to help in certain studies, it is also proven to be unnecessary. Biomedical industries are looking for the next cure or the safest makeup for example, but the process of it all is wrong. There are millions of animals yearly being put through suffering and cruel conditions with no break or recovery time. There is no way to actually see results in such a vigorous treatment. These animals are sick and abused daily for long periods of time and to think that any living

Not only animals, but human lives too (Animal testing is bad Science). “ Most animal experiments are not relevant to human health, they do not contribute meaningfully to medical advances and many are undertaken simply out of curiosity and do not even pretend to hold promise of curing illnesses.” Says Noah Berlatsky. Even if you tested something on an animal multiple times, someone is going to have to be the first human to have to test the product on themselves. Even when humans could benefit from on a product being tested, they're still really bad for animals. For example, aspirin; it is a benefit to humans, but did you know that it kills cats while it also causes birth defects in dogs, guinea pigs, and other animals too (Berlatsky). Animals are living things and don't deserve to be treated this way. They shouldn't have to be forced to suffer in cages with disease and injury. Animals are treated as objects that have little meaning to them and little value with their lives besides the cost to purchase them (Hunnicutt). More than $2 billion was wasted because the drugs that passed the animal, failed the human test. Not only do people get sick from the product they tested on animals, but about 95% of schools use animal testing to train their kids which is wasting more animal

“Mice are mice, and people are people. If we look at the mouse to model every aspect of disease for man, and to model cures, we are just wasting our time” - Dr. Clif Barry. Testing on animals can be dangerous for the animal that is being tested on. The amount of money that is sent to laboratories in the U.S.A. is outrageously high. Animal testing is not only terrible, but is unreliable more than half the time. Animal testing should not continue to be legal.

“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.”