Animal Testing Research Paper

Should Animal Testing be banned?

I. Imagine, being taken away from your family, and living inside a crowded cage in a laboratory without ever seeing daylight again. Every day, animals are being forcefully held and strapped down, while a scientist tests a new drug on their bodies. This is an example of a daily experience an innocent animal has to undergo for the rest of their life. Tested animals are held in captivity for the sake of finding new methods to cure diseases or simply for observation and examination. Although animal testing is beneficial in some cases, it is cruel and unjustified because of the daily conditions animals have to suffer through, and how unnecessary it is considering the amount of different alternatives.

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"The term 'animal testing' refers to procedures performed on living animals for purposes of research into basic biology and disease. Asserting the effectiveness of new medicinal products, and testing the human health and/or environmental safety of consumer and industry products such as cosmetics, household cleaners, food additives, pharmaceuticals and industrial/Argo-chemicals (“About Animal Testing”)”.

3. Till this day, animal testing is considered justified because scientists believe any type of animal is obligated to sacrifice itself in order to make new products safer for human use and consumption (“Save the Animals”).

B. Throughout the years, there has been a drastic change in the different kinds of animals that are being tested.

1. Towards the beginning, cats, dogs, and mice used to be the main animal to be as testing experiments. Today different animals are now subjected to animal testing such as; hamsters, rabbits, and in some countries monkeys or chimpanzees.

2. "It is estimated that more than 115 million animals worldwide are used in laboratory experiments every year. In the United States, up to 90 percent of the animals used in laboratories are excluded from the official statistics. Although these animals still endure the stressed and deprivations of life in the sterile laboratory environment, their lives are not recorded in official statistics (“About Animal

Animals should be taken cared as pets or be let free in an environment where they were raised in the beginning.

C. There has always been a contradiction on how animals are viewed; in this case they are seen as testing products.

1. There are two different perspectives on how people view animals. They either view them as similar to human beings because they are intelligent, loving, and comprehensive creatures. Or people believe animals have no souls meaning they do not feel pain nor recognize love and should be used for something useful, like animal testing.

2. Scientists view animals as experiment products because they believe they are worth improving the human health. "Animals and people are similarly alike in many ways; they both feel, think, behave, and experience pain. Yet, animal’s rights are violated when they are used in research because they are not given a choice (“Save the Animals”)”.

3. Scientists still continue animal experimentation because they believe animals have no dignity and should simply be seen as objects in order to improve the life cycle. III. Inside laboratories, animals suffer too much and are continued to be treated inhumane.

A. If animals are to be tested on for the rest of their lives they should at least be treated with fair