Why Animal Experimentation Is Unethical

Horses, cats, dogs, bird and even fish are now used in testings. These animals were just a few of the hundreds used for the research and testing. Animal testing should be prohibited because it’s cruel and inhumane, animals are being tortured while in those labs, and the experiments are wasting animals

Gruesome treatment is endured by these animals and it needs to be prevented. All types of animals can have different reactions to the tests, and it doesn’t give a clear answer on how the treatment will work on humans. “Physiological reactions to drugs vary enormously from species to species. Penicillin kills guinea pigs, but is inactive in rabbits; aspirin kills cats and causes birth defects in rats, mice, guinea pigs, dogs, and monkeys; and morphine, a depressant in humans, stimulates goats, cats, and horses” (Animal Testing is a bad science” 1). If the animals all have different reactions how is it effective for us to even test them before trying it on humans?

Some people think that this treatment is a necessary evil, but there are alternatives to lethally injecting monkeys. Animals can suffer too, and we shouldn 't act ignorant to their pain. Animal testing is unethical and should be illegal because their lives are just as valuable as ours, test results are inaccurate, and alternative methods exist to prevent animal suffering. What makes animals so different from humans that we find it justifiable to hurt them?

First of all, the conduction of animal experimentation can be easily rejected because of the immorality and cruelty that comes with it. Every year at least 115 million animals die in laboratories due to animal testing (Taylor K., 2008) and the numbers are steadily increasing. The shocking statistic proves that it has come to a point where we should ask ourselves, is it really worth it? Animals, like humans, are living organisms that are sentient and are capable of suffering. Conducting these experiments only make animals seem like tools used for the progress of humanity, stripping away the factor that they possess the same right to life we abuse every day.

For example, the anatomic, metabolic and cellular system are not the same between animals and us, for that reason, it make the animals a poor model to get this human benefits (www.animal-testing.procon.org, 3 of 7). At the same time, animal test do not predict results because most of the drugs that are tested on animals failed in humans. Only some drugs were effective when there were tested on them and fail on humans for example the HIV vaccine. It is because the animals are no like humans, they do not have exactly the same system as us, and it causes that when something is testing on them the result automatically fail.

Due to this realization, it seems ridiculous to continue to harm, expose to danger, and mistreat animals all in the name of science. Ethics are described as the moral principles that guide the way people behave. Ethical issues range from child labor to discrimination to animal testing. Science has put regulations and restrictions against the

Education According to NAVSNAVS (National Anti-Vivisection Society), Animal dissections is defined as “the practice of cutting apart or separating tissue for anatomical study,” It is estimated that 20 million animals (10 million in the U.S) are used annually for educational purposes including, classroom observational exercises, dissections and live-animal surgeries. Some animals actually mutate in order to protect themselves, but mostly die due to pain. For example: Turtles are violently struck on their shells with hammers and have holes drilled into them for experiments on their hearts. Frogs’ brains are destroyed by needles pierced onto their heads for students to manipulate their opened muscles with electricity.

He agrees that the consumers of these products would not buy them if they saw what was happening to animals for that product to be on the shelves. Paul McCartney(2017) once said that “If every cosmetic tested on rabbits or mice had a photo on the packaging showing these animals with weeping swollen eyes and inflamed skin, I believe everyone would leave cruelty on the shelf. ”(para.2). These animals do not deserve to live a life full of pain and die in pain from these tests. It is immoral, and

That means that many animals are wasted for experiments but without any explanations or clarifications and without reporting to government. Human is now wishing our own happiness by causing pain on animals which is too egocentric towards the animals. Animals are proven that they have emotions, feelings and thoughts. Therefore, it is not worthy for them to sacrifice because of useless and pointless

Unfortunately, there are few people can do about it. Furthermore, there is the toxic substance control act; to reduce and replace medications. Yet, many companies are not listing and using illegal drugs on animals. Another reason why they misuse animals is that there are used in the classrooms around the nation for dissection. Around six million animals each year are used for dissection.

“These animals receive tests for substances that will never actually be used… it seems the animal died in vain” (Murnaghan 1). To take a life in such a painful way for no reason is a horrible thing to do. It is immoral, the scientists quickly appear to be that of murderers in this case; to take a life for no true purpose. There is also an extreme difficulty to get animals to test with, the specific animals are bred to be tested on. “Animals are expensive, there’s a lot of hassle and paperwork, and there are the extremists…”

People say that if u test on the animals nobody would care if they died. The also say that it won’t harm the animals but it really does. Some people also say that animal testing is bad because of the danger you are putting the animals in. The animals are going extinct because of the testing.

They are born with a death wish. Poked and prodded, dreadful day to day protocol. Animals aren’t unlimited test dummies. They were put on this earth to live out their lives just as we are and to take that birthright from them is an injustice in itself. There needs to be laws that make animal testing in The US illegal, and maybe that will set an example for the rest of the world that this is morally incorrect and cruel.

One woman has a memory when she was ten years old in one of Dr. Mengele 's experiments sitting in a cold room naked for eight hours with her twin sister, and in one arm blood was being drawn and in the other a substance was being injected (Survivor par.7). He would also conduct experiments to make sea-water drinkable. The subject would be deprived of any food and only were given chemically processed seawater. Severe damages to the body would be the result to these experiments (Josef par.5). Mengele would even remove their vital organs while they were awake on the table (Victims par.4).

The scientists and doctors treat the living beings with such disrespect, ignorance, and cruelty. They treat it as if it is a test object, but not a living being. Also, animal use cannot always be reliable and accurate. For example, many drugs that appear safe and effective in animals fail in humans, or cause significant harm and sometimes even death. A 2004 study from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration found that 92 percent of drugs entering clinical trials following animal testing fail to be approved.