Experimenting on animals is not an issue that blossomed recently, it has been going on for years. Most of the new discoveries whether they are related to cosmetics or medicine or even household products have been due to the research on animals. The question should be: “why should animals suffer for something that humans need?” However, is everyone okay with that, or are people objecting the process of experimenting on animals? According to The Guardian, the people’s opposition to this torture has been growing over the years. In the past, people’s trust in the governments and in science, specifically, was way more than their trust now. A poll was conducted amongst the people in the UK according to The Guardian, and results showed that 47% of …show more content…
About 54% of the people oppose to animal testing amongst young adults aged 18 to 29 as on 2012, according to Zeltner, B. As per Justin Goodman, director of PETA and an adjunct instructor of sociology at Marymount University in Arlington, Va., that no matter what the gender is, political connections or even age groups, the negativism towards animal testing has been dramatically increasing. That comes as a result for the laws, policies as well as the research funding systems have changed to meet the people’s …show more content…
Bella Williams said, Alistair Currie, policy advisor for charity People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), says that animals are not ours to experiment on and play with. His argument came as the following: just like mankind, animals feel pain and fear and by instinct all what they thirst for is to be free and shelter their own lives. Animals cannot stand up for themselves when they are getting drugged in order to be locked in a small cage where they are subjected to all kinds of abuse and suffering and all of that is just for the sake of helping the human. He said that approximately 90% of the medicines that were tested on animals fail in people, that counts as a gigantic waste of money, hope, animal lives and scientific resources. Taking the innocent dogs for instance, in these laboratories are force-fed pesticides and other chemicals while mice and monkeys are paralyzed intentionally from brain
Medical and cosmetic animal testing has been a very controversial topic for a long time. Many people seem mortified at pictures of disfigured bunnies, cats, and monkeys that are disfigured due to animal testing, but are fine with buying milk at the store that came from a cow that was given hormones, causing its udders to be painfully swollen. People are fine with chickens being kept in a wire cage their entire lives, causing painful lacerations to their feet, before being brutally slaughtered. For some reason however, people get upset about the same kind of treatment to animals even when this "abuse" is leading to the fast advancement of medical treatments. Animal testing has contributed to many life saving cures and treatments.
Animal experimentation is unacceptable because it is unethical. The article “Animal Experimentation” it states, “many people object to the use of animals in scientific studies because the animals are denied their freedom and often suffer serious injury and discomfort.” People disagree with animal experimentation because the animals do not have the freedom to choose. Animals cannot speak for themselves to tell whether or not they want to get tested on, because of this then the animals that are tested on suffer a lot of discomfort and injuries. Another reason why animal experimentation is unethical because it is unreliable.
I’m here today to talk about a controversial issue that has been around for a period of time, animal testing. Animal testing using animals in experiments with different chemical substances in everything from medical to cosmetic to determine their safety as well as effectiveness . It’s a problem that has existed since the 3rd and 4th centuries BCE with its merciless methods and painful ways of abusing animals for human demands, but now it’s time for it to stop. Our technology has developed significantly since; therefore, such medieval methods of torturing animals are no longer necessary. Researches have shown that each year, over 100 million animals are tortured and killed in American laboratories alone, including dogs, cats and more; this shows how far out of hand animal testing have gotten.
Poisoning, shocking, burning, and killing animals is what happens in labs all around the world and most people support it because they think it can benefit us or think there just some dumb animals. But that’s not true these dumb animals that people are testing on are living breathing creatures that have emotions and can feel pain. Animals should not go through such suffering and to back up what I am trying to prove here are three reasons why animals should not be tested on. Wait! Hold up just one minute, before you put on your make up and perfume did you ever stop to think where all of your make up, soap, perfume, and cleaning products even come from?
Animals in Research and Testing According to PETA, the animals who are in research and testing “shake and cower in fear whenever someone walks past their cages and their blood pressure spikes drastically. After enduring lives of pain, loneliness and terror, almost all of them will be killed,” (“Animal Testing 101”). Animal-testing is the use of non-human animals in research and development projects, especially for purposes of determining the safety of substances, such as foods, beauty products, and/or drugs. Although animal research plays a crucial role in experiments focused on disease treatments and preventions, it is cruel, inhumane, and should be stopped. This is an act that should be banned and prohibited in all states and countries
Animal Experimentation: Is it Beneficial? Animal testing, otherwise known as vivisection has been around prior to the 19th century, in fact, in 1973 there was already a total of over 1,500,000 animals being experimented on. Britain was the first to stand up against animal testing, stating that it was cruel in 1876 with the Cruelty to Animals Act. America on the opposing hand, launched an animal testing boom in the first quarter of the twentieth century when cosmetic animal testing began when totals reached over 1,300,000 animals tested. The animal testing controversy has been a big one, it is no way beneficial to society nor is it humane for animals.
The World of Animal Testing Everyday we use dozens of products, eat a plethora of foods and indulge in the world of technology. But, are people aware of the uncivilized animal testing that is done to bring those products to us? Or does society care? Around the globe, animal testing is conducted on an assortment of animals to bring almost everything we have to us right now. Animal testing is completely unnecessary, brutal, and needs to be stopped for the compassion, wellbeing, and health of both humans and animals.
Still people think that animal testing is to an extent fine because animals are lower species than humans and being lower intellectual species therefore have no rights. Animals too have feelings and just because they haven’t evolved as much as humans have doesn’t mean they have become tools for our benefits. Animals are living things too and the only way that this misunderstanding can be removed is by increasing public knowledge and educational programs. In conclusion, animal testing should be stopped slowly because it violates animals' rights, it causes suffering to the animals, and other means of toxicity are available. Humans cannot justify anything by making life better for themselves and in the process destroying the lives of thousands
Should animals be suffering just because humans are trying to advance our medical techniques? Should they be forced to eat? Should people be allowed to torture them this way? Do you think so? In fact, more than 100 million animals are killed each year during scientific and commercial testing, in the U.S alone.
In the United States, more than 100 million animals are killed each year due to animal experimentation in laboratories, which is way too many. Everyday animals are burnt, sliced, poisoned with drugs, or executed during psychological testing. Animal experimentation is downright mean. Animals should not be put at risk or harmed to ensure the safety of humans. Animal experimentation is conducted by universities, medical schools, pharmaceutical and biotechnological companies, and military defence establishments (Murnaghan).
Millions of animals suffer in the name of research every year worldwide. Animals and humans are not made up the same way though and therefore the products tested on animals do not produce always actuate result. But humans and animals are made up in the same in the fact that they both bleed, feel pain, suffer, and we both have the will to survive. Ranking animal cruelty is hard because it all evil, but to constantly torture an animal in the name of science is definitely in the top.
Animals should not be used in experiments for medical research. Many products that are sold in stores may have been tested on animal which could have either killed or seriously injured these defenseless, poor creatures. Some chemicals that we eat that are listed as ingredients on boxes of food were first tested on
Animal experimentation is simply undependable and can possibly harm humans, even when the purpose of animal testing is to protect humans from damage. Furthermore, blog.udemy.com proves that “...some drugs that work wonders for humans (such as aspirin) can prove deadly to animals, so something that doesn’t work in animal testing might have been a huge medical breakthrough for mankind” (https://blog.udemy.com/animal-testing- cons/). When testing on animals, there’s a great chance that when they react negatively to a drug or product, it does not necessarily mean that it would have those effects on humans. This also means that there’s a chance that a drug that was proven deadly to animals could have been a life-saving cure for some uncured illness today. Moreover, animal testing is simply inhumane.
Throughout the years, science and medicine have been advancing. Today people use medicine that breaks a fever, cures a headache and even stops a rash. But no one thinks about how someone perfected that. The answer is that they tested it on animals countless times. Animals should not be treated this way and this kind of behavior is unethical and should not be used.
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated” (Mahatma Gandhi). Each year about 100 million innocent animals are killed worldwide just to enhance the quality of our lifestyle in areas like cosmetics, educational fields and curing diseases. Animal experimentation dates back to “the early Greek physician-scientists, such as Aristotle, (384 – 322 BC) and Erasistratus, (304 – 258 BC), who performed experiments on living animals because of their similar traits to humans for the sake of progressing on the understanding of our own anatomy, physiology, pathology, and pharmacology” according to Raehel Hajar from the article Animal Testing and Medicine. Some might say, that the use of animals in experiments are often not effective because animals and humans might carry similar traits but they do not carry “major types of diseases that humans would get, such as heart disease, many types of cancer, HIV, Parkinson’s disease, or schizophrenia” (Cruelty Free International).