Why Animal Testing Should Be Illegal

For many years, the field of science has used animals in medical experiments worldwide, because of this innocent animals are being killed everyday. They are being tested with new drugs, new treatments, and by many makeup companies. Connecticut recently celebrated the passage of the “Beagle Freedom Law”, a law that requires laboratories to work with charities and rescue groups to find homes for research cats and dogs. Animals are being tested so humans do not have to be but animal tests do not reliably predict results in human beings, although animals are the closest thing to humans. Most experiments involving animals are flawed, wasting the lives of innocent animal subjects. Over 100 million animals suffer a year from testing. Testing animals is a lot more expensive than alternative methods and it is wasting government research dollars. Animal testing is not only a bad idea, but it is also inhuman and it should not be tolerated. The FDA should stop allowing animal testing. An animal does not give out the same results on a test than a human would.

Not only do they experience deprivation, the U.S. law allows scientists to burn, shock, poison, starve, drown, isolate, and create brain damage to these poor animals. Even with alternatives to different methods of testing is available, the law does not require for them to be used. So, animals are still being tortured during these experiments.

First, 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 others 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.” In the first place, the people in the laboratories are forcing the animals to suffer, without knowing how the animals feel. Animals have feeling too, they just can’t show it to humanity, because they are unable to communicate with human and people. Secondly, The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported in 2010 that 97,123 animals suffered pain during experiments while being given no anesthesia for relief, including 1,365 primates, 5,996 rabbits, 33,562 guinea pigs, and 48,014 hamsters. Therefore, we cannot let the laboratories keep using animals to test their items and products, or else the animals will be in big danger. The amount of animals that suffered in pain in 2010 is unbelievable, we can’t let this keep going on or we’ll just lose our precious, fluffy bunnies and other poor animals to. Overall, after reading what is happening to the animals, this is cruel and not fair to the animals that are

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.

Animal testing has been a controversial topic discussed by many people over the past decade. There are many organizations that are trying to ban the use of animal testing because of the cruelty us humans are doing to innocent animals and the pain and suffering these animals go through. The first organization I found when researching was PETA (People, Ethical, Treatment, Animals). From my research, this is the largest animal rights group founded so far. Their main office is in Norfolk, VA. They are not only fighting animal testing but animals for the use of food, clothing and entertainment. This organization has donated over a million dollars to find non-animal testing methods. Another organization I found was PCRM (Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine).

Although many people believe animal testing is good and can benefit humans, conversely the use of animals is seen by many in the medical field as necessary. While it is not ideal to cause harm to animals it is a safer way to test new products compared to testing them on humans. Animal testing is cruel and hurts innocent animals each day, the results of tests are not always successful, scientists should invest their money on other things that can make their tests more accurate and usable. Using animals as research experiments fail 94% of the time when tested on humans. The tests are not reliable. According to

“An estimated 26 million animals are used every year in the united states for scientific and commercial testing” (ProCon.org). We are rapidly using up the earth’s supply of small animals. “A 2011 poll of nearly 1,000 biomedical scientists conducted by the science journal Nature found that more than 90% agreed that the use of animals in research is essential (ProCon.org). Right now, millions of mice, rats, rabbits, cats, dogs, and other animals are locked up in cages and are getting killed for scientific tests to create products and medicines. Thus, animal testing is cruel and inhumane to be experimenting on animals, there are alternative methods available to researchers to replace animal testing, and that animals are so different from human beings that research on animals often yields irrelevant results.

As stated above, animal testing is an incredibly cruel practice. Scientists who use animals in experiments are free to do almost anything to animals in the name of science, because there are so few laws regulating how scientists are allowed to treat animals. According to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), “Even animals who are covered by the law can be burned, shocked, poisoned, isolated, starved, forcibly restrained, addicted to drugs, and brain-damaged…” These animals lead terrible lives full of torture and loneliness, all for very little progress in any field.

There is a debate in the world today. Some people think they should do testing on animals and some people think they shouldn’t test animal because it’s not right for them to test and kill the animals when they're done. The United States is having a lot of trouble with people testing animals because this group called PETA is trying to end testing all over the world. The PETA is fighting for the animal welfare act. The animal welfare act does not let test on animal.

Animal testing should be banned for three reasons. We are wasting innocent lives of animals. We are taking their friendliness for grantige. Also an animal is not a perfect model of the human body. Please help these innocent animals so they do not have to go through so much

While this is true, there are alternative ways to develop treatments and animal testing doesn’t always work due to diversity of body types and immunity in humans. Social Research states that “In the highly polarized debate that characterizes the modern animal research controversy, it is usually assumed that scientists support animal research and animal activists criticize it, with the general public occupying some sort of contested middle ground. However, scientists are also demonstrably ambivalent about what is done to animals in experimental laboratories.” This tells us that even the people that are conducting the experiments oppose animal testing and want it to be stopped. They understand that there are more humane ways to solve problems and test products. Animal testing CAN be stopped, and WILL be with your

Animal testing has been very useful when it comes to finding life-saving cures and treatments. Many will argue

Opponents say that animal testing is crucial for advances in medical research. Many advances in medications and research in the medical field have only come to be through animal testing. However, studies have proven that there are many alternate ways for medical testing which do not require

According to New York Times, Barnaby J. Feder, a general technology reporter, states that there are new technological advancements such as Human skin, eyes, and lining of the throat, that can be used instead. It is possible to obtain human alternatives because small portions of tissue of any of these can now be grown in test tubes (Feder, New York Times). This could be the answer to not only perhaps get correct answers to human disease, but to stop the use of all animal testing. With these alternatives their will no longer be a need to use animals for any use of research, when you can get much more accurate results using the specific organism that is being researched for. It does not stop there; testing can also now be done virtually on computers, stimulation software, or even volunteers can intake potential new drugs that have no effect to humans (Feder, New York Times). From a simple computer screen, it is so much easier to test on animals because there would not have to have so much expenses, prior to how they are doing so with animals, so much items are used. All these new alternatives must be taken into consideration to stop the use of animals. Not only is there a higher chance of getting more effective results, but it also saves on little animal from harm or possibly even