The Ethics of using animals for testing for the purpose of advancement in medicine has been a controversial non ending argument. For many periods, researchers and scientist have used animals. Millions of animals are being researched, tested within the US every year. Most of this animals are not given pain medications or drugs. Some animals being use are as small as rodents, rats, mice, hamsters. Etc. Other animals being used that are very disturbing as well are human pets such as dogs, cats, monkeys, goats, and rabbits. The animal morality issues is and always will be a topic full of emotions from both sides, the ones that are for it and the ones that are against it. Granting scientists and testers have claimed that to reach medical advancement is that animal testing has to be done because it depends on it, which I beg to differ and disagree. Despite the end result of animal testing not truly successful, researchers still uses animals. There are different alternatives to get an accurate results by not using animals for testing. Animals are tested for advancement of medicine however, that is not just the case. Animals are being used to test …show more content…
labs every year. Animal testing should be stop because it is immoral to place millions of animals in a cage to feel pain, to live in fear, and loneliness away from their family. Under the Animal Welfare Act of 1966, there are other animals that are not protected, which needs to be revisited and revised. Animals that are not protected are rats, birds, reptiles, mice, and amphibians. Even though the Animal Welfare Act of 1966 exists, many researchers and scientist does not stop them from abusing, torturing, and killing animals. “According to the Humane Society, registration of a single pesticide requires more than 50 experiments and the use of as many as 12,000 animals.” (Dosomething.org, 2016) This numbers are pretty ridiculous to test one
Many people believe that animals have a different anatomy than humans, therefore, scientists should not rely on animal testing. In contrast, others say that it’s safer to test medicines on animals before giving them to people; in this way scientists make sure that their medicines are not toxic, nor harmful to humans. Further,
This brings up the question of how are animal testing even ethical within the society we live in. If I wasn’t already being clear enough, I believe it is highly unethical, and there are many different viable options that exist. Each year, millions of animals are being killed and are being used for experiments by scientists,cosmetic companies and household product. Animal testing is not the way to go, it is just merciless. These poor animals are being stripped away from their psychological and physical needs.
Researchers estimated over 26 million animals were used for scientific tests and commercial testing subject every year in the United States. Over the years animals were used to be tested on medical treatments, products for human uses, health care, and etc. The practice of researching on living animals has started since 500 BC. Opponents of this act say that it is cruel to experiment on animals, there are other methods available to replace the cruel act of experimenting on living animals, and that the human bodies and animal’s bodies are totally two different features and the research often yields irrelevant results. The federal Animal Welfare or AWA passed the animal testing act in 1966 and amended in 1970, 1976, and 1985.
Since animal testing is cruel, inhumane, and alternative testing methods now exist, we should discontinue animal testing once and for all. For these reasons, animals should not be used in research or to test the safety of human products. To begin with, animal testing is cruel, inhumane and it violates animals’ rights. The USDA reported that in 2016, 71,370 animals suffered pain during experiments while being given no anesthesia at all for relief.
The Animal Welfare Act (AWA) of United States gives some protections to warm-blooded animals used in research laboratories, which only cover 5% of animals normally used for testing. Under AWA, all testing on animals which are covered must minimized the pain on animals and provide appropriate veterinary care. The AWA should make further improvements which cover as much animals as possible. In UK, the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 defined regulated procedures as animal experiments that could potentially cause "pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm”. It prevents animals from unnecessary suffering.
Animal Testing Should Be Banned Animal testing also known animal experimentation is a process whereby non-human animals are used to conduct experiments. There has been an increase of animal testing in the field of biomedical research. Due to this, animal testing has become an extreme controversial topic that has created a division among different groups, of those who are supporting the process and those who are opposing. Therefore, there are ongoing debates on whether animal testing should go on or it should be banned. Some groups argue it is ethical, while others insist that the process is unethical, and there is a last group advocating for alternatives in the testing other than the use of animals.
Many people have different ideas on animal testing and if it is or is not appropriate for medical research. Many disagree, but there are some that think it’s necessary for testing to be done. Animal testing is necessary because it helps develop life saving medical treatments for not only humans, but animals, and it helps determine how medicine will react to the human body. Animal testing is appropriate for medical research because testing helps develop life saving medical treatments for humans. Without testing, scientist wouldn’t have found ways to help people with breast cancer or childhood Leukemia.
Animal Testing for Experimental Use The Animal Welfare Act manages all the animal testing that happens in the United States of America (USA), it regulates how animals are treated, what type of testing is done and what is seen as humane and inhumane treatment. In Canada, about 3.02 million animals are tested on for experiments such as; biology lessons, medical training, chemicals testing, drug testing, food testing, and cosmetics testing. Testing on animals can be dated back to 500 BC (Background 2016). Companies like Covergirl, Estée Lauder, Dove, Johnson & Johnson, Tide, Windex among many other
Modern anesthetics, the tetanus vaccine, penicillin and insulin all relied on animal research in their development.97% of the UK research is done on mice, rats, fish and birds. And they all follow the regulations of state. CONS OF ANIMAL TESTING Pain, loneliness, and suffering, that is all these animals feel when they are forced to have experiments done on them. Animal testing has drastically changed over the past couple of years.
Using animals in medical testing is one of the most common usages. Since the animals did not hold any diseases, injecting virus to the animals is the first step toward the tests, the chance of success is unforeseeable and many testers, unfortunately, become victims. Putting them in peril and strangling their freedom is not an experiment but maltreatment. The animals are not born for the tests, it is not their responsibilities to sacrifice for the selfish humans.
Unfortunately, many companies remain resistant to changing their testing techniques and U.S. agencies, like the FDA, continue to endorse animal testing methods as the gold standard. (American Anti-Vivisection Society, 2015) In contrast to animal testing required by law to guarantee minimum safety standards for the licensing of drugs and chemicals, there are no regulations in basic research forcing scientists to perform animal tests. By (usually) free choice, questions are posed and hypotheses are examined which, in many cases, can only be answered by means of animal tests. Just as easily, different questions could be asked or different hypotheses could be examined which do not require animal tests.
The main argument against animal testing is that it is cruel and abusive. however, some people think that the abuse is worth it because it has led to many scientific and medical discoveries. I know that many different types of animals are tested on every day. These animal can
Equally important, animal testing is helpful to human medical research and to medical research for animals. According to a UK-based Understanding Animal Research organization “medical research on animals has resulted in new treatments for diabetes in animals
Animal testing has always been an immense controversy. As people, we all have different opinions and moral values, and this definitely effects how we see things. Of course this means that everyone has something dissimilar to say about the issue of testing on animals. However, who is to say whether it is truly right or wrong to use animals in the process of discovering in the medical field?
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