Many people are not aware of how large animal tests and experiments have become throughout the United States and the world. Based on statistics from 2013, 1.04 million animals have been used in experimentation throughout the United States. This statistic is not including the over 100 million mice and rats used in experiments. In Canada, 3.33 million animals are forced into painful experimentation. While 128,873 animals are exposed to torture above the pain tolerance threshold of non-anesthetized conscious animals. Animals should not be forced into this extreme level of pain, especially without anesthetics. No human would be put under this amount of pain and it is inhumane to expect innocent animals to endure the pain. 4.12 million animals face …show more content…
In the United Kingdom, 25% of all animal testing is done in just six universities. These universities are the University of Cambridge, the University of Edinburgh, King’s College London, the University College London, the University of Oxford, and the Imperial College London. When asked to comment on the immense amount of testing being completed within the colleges, most colleges commented by saying that animal testing is needed in order to make advances in medicine and technology (A Quarter of All UK Animal Testing Is Done in Just Six Universities). It is a common occurence for companies to withhold the information on whether they are involved in animal testing and whether citizens’ money is going towards their testing. Companies try to withhold this information in order to protect their image. Harvard Medical School demonstrated how horribly wrong animal testing can become. Harvard Medical School faced a fine of around 25,000 dollars for their mistreatment of their primates in their New England Primate Research Center in Southborough, Massachusetts. Harvard Medical School conducted 11 violations, including dehydrated monkeys and monkeys dying due to begin tangled in chains left in their
Animal testing has been a controversial issue for the past thirty years. Society feels as if animal testing is a technique of the past and should be outlawed in the United States like the majority of the world. Federal law shows us how little protection animals have, numerous recalled or discontinued medications are proof that research on animals to predict effects on the human body is highly unreliable. The humane society provides numerous examples of the cruel treatments and conditions animals must endure. Scientists have presented us with alternatives that are more cost-effective and produce less waste with higher accuracy rates.
Can you imagine how much the world spend on animal tests? It is surely hard to be estimated. Only in America, the government spends about more than US$14.5 billion per year for carrying out all types of cruel experiments, results in the millions death of animals. By referring to the budget report provided by the National Institutes of Health in 2014, taxpayers in America had to pay more than $12 billion for undergoing animal tests which absolutely imposed a heavy financial burden on them. Another illustration mentioned on news articles include $9.6 million to inject drugs into rabbits’ brains to see whether it would cause any effects on eyes and $1.1 million to see if meth-addicted monkeys would choose food or drug in pursuit of satisfying the never-ending curiosity of the scientists.
"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”).
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.
The animals—which includes mice, rats, rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs, frogs, dogs, cats, monkeys, fish, chimpanzees, and birds—are used for “ biology lessons, medical training, curiosity-driven experimentation, and chemical, drug, food, and cosmetics testing,” (“Animal Testing 101”). The United States is, being one of two nations, allowed to test on chimpanzees. It is known that “more than [nine hundred] chimpanzees still languish in laboratories,” (“Chimpanzees in Laboratories”) based in the United States. Due to the captivity they deal with, the animals are typically caged alone, isolated, and suffer from the deprivation of freedom and any forms of social interactions needed. This deprivation not only happens to chimpanzees, but to other animals in testing as
Each year, around 100 million animals are killed in the United States. Mice, frogs, dogs, cats, rats, monkeys, fish, hamsters, rabbits, fish, birds, and guinea pigs all dead from experimentation. Experiments like medical training, curiosity-driven experiments, chemical testing, drug, food, and yes, even cosmetics testing. Some animals have even had holes drilled into their skulls, or their skin burned off, or spines crushed to purposely paralyze them, and/or forced to inhale toxins to see the outcome. Animals are being treated like useless laboratory equipment and that needs to change.
Mahatma Gandhi (1915) once said, “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated”. Since the mid 19th century, animal testing has been prevalent throughout the world. Up to this date, about 115 million animals have been put to death each year for the use of animal testing which is thought to be used in the fields of medical research, drugs and cosmetic testing (International, n.d.). According to the Cruelty Free International Organization (2016), animal testing is not diminishing and in many parts of the world is increasing and is still at the same level as it was in the 1980s. Statistics show that an animal dies in a laboratory every 3 seconds, which makes animals suffer in torment and experience distress and misery more and more every year (Fieser, 2008).
The PETA agrees that a large number of harmless animals are exposed to painful experiment resulting in death each year. According to the PETA “Each year, more than 100 million animals—including mice, rats, frogs, dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs, monkeys, fish, and birds—are killed in U.S. laboratories for chemical, drug, food, and cosmetics testing; biology lessons; medical training; and curiosity-driven experimentation” (PETA). In other words, way too many animals are killed each year due to medical testing reasons. If this many lives are wasted each year why have we not moved on to alternate methods permanently. The United States department of Agriculture reports that just in new jersey alone 102,124 animals were used in research in 2015.
Animals are subjected to excruciating experiments daily. Countries such as Israel and India have stopped animal testing as well as Britain. “…countless animals are experimented on and then killed…” (Murnaghan 1). Animals are subjected to confined rooms all of their lives, used in painful experiments and then disposed of as if they are an inanimate object.
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.
Imagine an enraged animal rights activist charging toward a scientist in a white lab coat, desperate to free the little mice that are being used as test subjects. Although comical, this scene may be quite accurate when describing the passion that animal lovers have when it comes to the touchy subject of animal testing. For centuries, animal testing has been used in the medical research field, however many are now beginning to question whether it is ethical. Millions of animals are killed per year due to animal testing, so is this practice worth banning? Animal testing is a controversial subject, with supporters pointing out the medical advances that have stemmed from animal research and animal rights activists declaring it cruel and immoral.
Anther point: would you like your pet to go through the above described disaster? The answer should be no. If we won’t do it to humans, why should we do it to animals?To get you to
Almost all animals are used for testing, including primates, dogs, rats, mice, rabbits, pigs, fish, and cats (Cruelty). Various animals are taken in every year by the millions and forced to be unwilling test subjects. “On top of deprivation, there are the experiments. U.S. law allows animals to be burned, shocked, poisoned, isolated, starved, drowned, addicted to drugs, and brain-damaged. No experiment, no matter how painful or trivial, is prohibited- and pain killers aren't required (Cruelty).”
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.
The Humane Society International (HSI) says that there are around 100,000 animals tested and killed in labs each year. They test medicine for headaches and sicknesses and if that medicine works it’s sent out to be sold. Animal testing is a necessary evil to keep you and a family member alive. Animal testing is bad but a lot of good comes out of it. “The animals being tested are treated like kings and queens.