Why Animal Experimentation Should Be Illegal

Throughout history, animal experimentation has played an important role in leading to new discoveries and human benefit. However, what many people tend to forget are the great numbers of animal subjects that have suffered serious harm during the process of experimentation. Many people are believed to be ignorant or misunderstand the nature of the lives that animals actually live, and are unable to understand the actual laboratory procedures and techniques. Other than the philosophical questions that arise, ethical (moral) questions are the main reason why many animal right activists want it banned in every country. Activists feel that to this day, there should be no good reason why any living thing should be subjected to this cruel punishment and unwanted torture just for serving another being’s needs.

Animal Testing is widely known to be cruel and inhumane. Many animals suffer due to scientists wanting to test their products on them to benefit humans. The Humane Society International stated that animals that are experimented on are usually force fed, forces inhalation, deprivation of food and water.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) statistics records the use of roughly 26 million animals per year for animal testing. These test reports in many cases are poor. Although animals were greatly used in the past the effects of treatments on animals and humans can’t be compared. The human body, reactions to toxins, and usefulness of treatments is different because we are different, “While animal’s maybe ‘whole models,’ states Dr. Aysha Akhtar, MD,” they are the wrong whole model because of interspecies differences.” Testing animals for human treatments should not continue to be practiced.

They are enslaved, beaten, and kept in chains to make them perform for humans’ “entertainment”; they are mutilated and confined to tiny cages so that we can kill them and eat them; they are burned, blinded, poisoned, and cut up alive in the name of “science”; they are electrocuted, strangled, and skinned alive so that people can parade around in their coats; and worse.” PETA fights for researching into alternative methods of testing so that animals don’t have to suffer in scientific

According to Humane Society International, “Animals used in experiments are commonly subjected to force feeding, forced inhalation, food and water deprivation, prolonged periods of physical restraint, the infliction of burns and other wounds to study the healing process, the infliction of pain to study its effects and remedies, and ‘killing by carbon dioxide asphyxiation, neck-breaking, decapitation, or other means.’” As you can see theses animals are being treated cruelly and inhumane, just reading that paragraph makes shivers run down my spine. We use animals for testing when according to Should Animals Be Used for Scientific or Commercial Testing?, “Animal tests are more expensive than alternative methods and are a waste of government research dollars.” Animal tests cost more than alternative methods and as it say in the text a waste of government research dollars. It's crazy to think that this is happening every day since, “Animals can suffer like humans do, so it is speciesism to experiment on them while we refrain from experimenting on humans”(Should Animals Be Used for Scientific or Commercial Testing?). Even though we don't think of animals as humans because they are not, does not mean that they can not suffer like a human. Another thing that most of the animals being tested on are mice, rats, rabbits, and guinea pigs, When 11 Facts About Animal Testing wrote about these animals and what happens to them they wrote, "Several

Animal experimentation has been a commonly debated subject for many years, is it cruelty or science? Millions of animals die each year from animal testing. This is because of harsh ways animals are treated like by their experimenters. Animals should be free of the cruelty scientists expose them to. They have just as much sentient as humans do. Millions of animals a year are subject to being imprisoned and having terrible procedures done.

Is it fair to do experiments on a helpless animal for the benefits of human beings? No,it is not fair to do experiments on helpless animals. Animal testing is when cruel and harmful experiments are done on innocent animals for specific reasons such as saving human lives. In animal testing, they take these innocent little animals and run horrible,cruel, and graphic test on them. "An estimated 26 million animals are used every year in the United States for scientific and commercial testing." (Humane Society International n.p.). So many different kinds of animals are taken captive to be tested on these gruesome experiments. There are many experiments

Animal testing classifies as legal, sanctioned abuse. When an animal is in a lab as a test subject, there is no limit to what harm may be inflicted upon it. Over one hundred million animals go through this torture each year (PETA). These animals spend the majority of their lives in an unnatural, stressful environment, fearing what kind of thing will happen to them next. They are kept behind bars with usually no access to sunshine or fresh air, unable to act as they would if they were free (PETA). Dogs being tested on can not run around in the grass, birds can not fly around outside, and mice have no wheel to exercise on. Animals in labs go through thorough, invasive experiments, often ending in death. Many of these tests they go through

According the top animal advocates, each year millions of animals die due to animal testing. The animals used for testing include monkeys, rabbits, birds, hamsters, cats, and dogs just to name a few. Fortunately, the lives of these animals could be saved if animal testing was outlawed.

According to “Breakthroughs Might Mean the End of Animal Testing” if a product or chemical is safe for animals, only 8% of those products will work on humans.(John Ericson 1) Animals have been used for testing for thousands of years, due to their similarities with humans. Over the years public support has significantly decreased. The cruel practice has sparked controversy and needs to be stopped. Animal testing is used throughout the U.S which is why it needs to be banned. If animal testing was banned worldwide, it would prevent millions of animal deaths.

Guiding Question: What are the possible alternatives to prevent animal experimentation for experimental medications for humans?

Eyes being injected with chemicals, tests that are causing mutations, an endless cycle of torture. Every life is just as important as another. If all those things were done to humans just to have a better appearance it would be a way bigger deal. Instead scientists are doing this to animals and most don’t seem to care as long as they get their long volumized lashes, their plump colorful lipsticks, their soft hair, their de-wrinkle skin replenishing lotions, no one cares as long as they’re benefitting from it. Animal testing shouldn’t be allowed; It should be banned. Testing cosmetics on animals is not only unnecessary but also cruel and inhumane. Things like mascara aren’t just tested on “gross rats” but also dogs, cats, bunnies, pigs, sheep, monkeys, birds, ferrets and many more cute little animals.

On Earth, humans must coexist with the many types of animals and respect them as equals on their shared territory. Animals are not treated as equals and therefore the animals are suffering from the harm that humans are inflicting on them through animal testing experimentation. These acts of animal experimentation have caused a decrease in the number of some species of animals, while others have broken several rights that animals have and are protected under The Animal Welfare Act. Animal experimentation is wrong because people use animals for beauty product testing, cloning, and medical research which violates animal rights. Animal experimentation is occurring through several different selfish acts by humans. We as humans use animals for our own benefits and do not take the animals into consideration.

Ian Murnaghan, a medical writer, explains the animals are usually “euthanized”, or killed, after experiments. This proves that the animals that are used in experiments are seen as unworthy and unimportant to the scientists and/or companies conducting the experiments. For the vast majority of the animals involved in experimentation, the distress they have been put through is irreversible. They cannot withstand being put into the wild or being adopted by humans, so they are usually killed (Murnaghan). The permanent struggles animals endure due to testing prove the practice to be inhumane and cruel.

Animal testing is a cruel and inhumane thing to do to a living organism. PETA believes that during experiments the animals are not protected from suffering and there are no laws that are in place to protect them. The animals in laboratories are treated like cheap disposable laboratory equipment. In fact, more than 100 million animals are killed in the United States because they are victims of harsh and deadly experiments that torture and kill these defenseless animals. Before their death, some animals are forced to participate in experiments that require them to