Stop Animal Testing

Stop Animal Testing Can you imagine being an animal who is used as a test subject? Being forced to do certain things just to see results? Or how about dying due to side effects? This happens to animals everyday as a result of animal testing. Tons of animals die every year in our country and even across the globe because of animal testing. Animal testing should be stopped because testing is considered cruel, unreliable, and animals can suffer just like humans.

To begin, animal death occurs every year in the U.S. According to PETA’s article “Animal Testing 101”, Approximately 100 million animals or more suffer and die throughout the U.S. every year in harsh chemical, drug, food, and cosmetics test (PETA.org). The process of animal testing

Also animal rights are ignored when they are being used for testing (Lonestar.edu). Stephanie Liou’s article “Animal Research: The Ethics Of Animal Experimentation”, states that people believe animals do have moral status (Web.Stanford.edu). The article also states that animals and humans are similar because both can feel pain and pleasure so animals should have the same moral status and treatment (Web.Stanford.edu). As a result, animals should be treated equally just like humans and thereare certain laws involved in animal testing. According to the Animal Legal Defense Fund’s article “Animal Testing and the Law”, “Legal test include burning, poisoning, starving, forced smoking, mutilating, etc” (aldf.org). Also the Department Of Defense does not have to be checked by the USDA and labs do not need to report non-AWA protected animals (aldf.org). In fact “When a facility is found deficient, the OLAW takes little action” (aldf. org). Furthermore, there are several drug stores that sell animal free tested products. Target, Walgreens, CVS, and Wal-Mart sells non- cruelty free products (Crueltyfreekitty.com).

While some people believe that using animals in research is cruel others feel that it is important and that humans can benefit from it. Manchester Evening News’s article “For and against: Animal testing” states “Many medical

According to PETA’s article “Alternatives To Animal Testing”, other methods to test products would be in vitro, advanced computer- modeling techniques, and studies with human volunteers (PETA.org). Therefore, animal testing could end because researchers have other methods to test their products.

Animal testing must end because it is cruel to animals, unreliable, and animals can suffer just like humans. There are several ways people can get involved to help end animal testing. One way would be to join the European Coalition to End Animal Experiment or the ECEAE. This group has been advocating to end animal testing for 25 years. Throughout the years, they have ended testing for cosmetics in EU and acknowledged cruelty-free standards in cosmetics