Animal testing, also known as animal experimentation, or in vivo testing, often uses non-human animals in experiments to test the safety of products and has been a topic of heated debate for decades. Although some research uses animals only for natural behaviors observation, F. Barbara Orlans claimed in her book, In the Name of Science: Issues in Responsible Animal Experimentation, that more than sixty percent of all animals used in animal testing suffer from experiment procedure or even get killed in biomedical research and product-safety testing. On the one hand, successful animal testing can lead to medical cures and treatments for human beings, on the other hand, opponents are doubting the reliability of animal…
Animal testing on cosmetics should be banned. People are put in jail all the time for abusing their pets, but people are never put in jail for inhumane testing of cosmetics and other pharmaceuticals on these same animals. I have done a lot of research on animal testing and methods we can use that are more effective and don’t use animals through high school in my free time because of curiosity, so I know a lot of random facts about the harmful nature of this and alternative methods. Animals are being tortured to “help” make better medicine and, the majority of the time does not affect people the same way as animals. Animal testing is inhumane and ineffective the majority of the time, it should be banned.…
All over the world it happens, Animals being beaten, scorched with fire, irritated and even worse... killed! Many people believe Animal testing is brutal and is unnecessary (myself included), it's abuse towards the animals that do so much for us the animals we love is a horrific thing to think about. people just keep testing animals even though animals don't react like us as humans. Are there better things we can do? Things that don't cost the cosmetic company and taxpayers an arm and a leg? too thousands of animals are being disrupted each and every single year in the US alone.…
every year suffer and die in cruel chemical, drug, food and cosmetic tests, biology lessons,…
You know that pet you wanted for christmas or your birthday? Well there’s a chance it’s in a lab being tested on. A debate has been going on about how the negatives outweigh the positives or how the positives outweigh the negatives on animal testing. Although some may believe animal testing is valuable, in reality, it is unreliable,unsafe and inhuman.…
Animal testing has been technique that is used for a number of years. It has been used as a way to test things ranging from medicine and vaccines to cosmetics and personal care products. Animal testing has also been used to find cures for certain diseases like Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS. This testing technique occurs in many parts of the world from the United States of America to China, but has also been banned in a number of places like Europe. Animal testing is harmful to the animals, is dated and an unnecessary practice, and can be avoided.…
Animal testing, or also known as animal experimentation, is the act of using animals for research or scientific experimentation. According to USDA, thousands of guinea pigs, hamsters, pigs, sheep, dog and etc. undergo inhuman physical and mental torture due to scientific research. Although, many argue that animal testing is crucial for advancement of medicine and safety, many believe animal testing is inhumane and malicious. In spite of the fact that extensive research shows that animal testing often had invalid results which can cause harmful reactions to human, animal testing still continues to exist while cheaper more effective alternatives exists.…
Radiation sickness is no enemy a person would wish to encounter, so why do we knowingly subject innocent animals to endure our tests, just to see how harmful radiation is? There are many ways to experiment on an animal, like injecting or force feeding, exposure to radiation, surgically removing organs or tissue to deliberately cause damage, forcing them to inhale toxic gas, and subjecting them in frightening situations to create anxiety and depression ("Cruelty Free International.") It may sound sadistic, and twisted, but put a little trust in the way of science, and let’s look at how animal testing has positive and negatives.…
Animal Experimentation by Peggy J. Parks describes advantages and disadvantages of animal research. This book explains one of the major social justice issue that is becoming controversial these days: Animal Rights. Scientists are trying to find new vaccines and medical products, but you cannot test them on humans right away. We cannot risk human’s life, but can we risk animal’s life? In 2005, the USDA reported that 1,177,566 animals were used in the laboratory, excluding mice, rats, birds, fish, etc. The scientists mostly failed to make new discovery, and even if they did, it was not effective because humans and animals are very different. Animals are also used in education, but some students and parents consider dissection of animals as teaching…
What lies beneath our rights as human beings? One may argue that it’s the fact that we can feel emotion- empathy, despair, frustration, and jubilance. Or, another may claim that is it the common interest that we all share in the freedom of one’s own life and choices, happiness, and the continuous battle to achieve peace in the world. When we define these rights and give them some thought, a question comes to mind- can these rights be extended to non-human beings with the same capabilities of emotion and pursuit of happiness? Animals for instance have been a subject of discussion when it comes to rights due to obvious differences in character and species. But when we glance at what lies beneath our rights as human beings and compare them to animals, we may find that we’re not much different.…
Animal testing is used for many products worldwide. Also animal testing is used for a wide range of things, such as items in houses and medicines. Many places test on animals, such as private facilities, universities, and government laboratories. A big debate in today’s society is whether or not scientist should use animals for testing. Most of the animals die during or after the testing. Typing animal testing on images on the Internet it is most likely that gruesome images of rabbits, mice, cats, and dogs being used as test subjects will appear. Some people believe that animal testing has improved the world and continues to do so. They look, at the good side of what animal testing has done for humans. People want…
An estimated of 100 million animals are used in commercial testing in a year in the United States alone. Millions of innocent animals such as rabbits, mice, dogs and cats are killed and abused every day for things like beauty and hair products. Imagine a family pet or a bunny in a factory operating table being abused, cut open and poked in the eye with a mascara wand until he's blind. This just an example of the horrifying truth behind animal testing. Although there is proof of medical positives it is taking millions of innocent animals lives to find a good makeup product. Animal testing needs to be illegal, humans and animals bodies don't work the same,…
Animal testing has contributed too many life-saving cures and treatments. “California Biomedical Research Association starts that nearly every medical breakthrough in the last 100 years has resulted directly from research using animals” (ProCon). Animal testing has helped save many lives today and come up with new cures for medical purposes. Because of animal testing we were able to find a new molecular and genetic understanding of tumor biology which led us to treatment that directly kills cancer cells. “This year, approximately 182,800 women in the United states will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer” (AMP). Alec Baldwin, who has broken with the PETA over the value of animal research in developing treatments for breast cancer told the USA that one cannot be ‘single issue’ when it comes to medical reassure. Animal testing was the reason for the development of Herceptin and tamoxifen. Which are two medicines that have saved many men and women’s lives today. It helps us prevent and give us hope to find a way to cure. Studies with animals determined with folic acid, a B vitamin, helps prevent serious birth defects of the spinal cord and the brain when taken before conception and early in pregnancy. Also, “research involving animal models continues to improve treatment’s for chronic complications including blindness, kidney disease,…
Aside from the brutality of animal testing, animal testing is also inefficient. In an article published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers have found that medical treatments developed in animals rarely translate to humans and tend to have side effects on humans. Furthermore, an article by Peta “Animal Experiments: Overview” states that the majority of animal experiments do not contribute to improving human health. In fact, 90 percent of medications approved for human use after animal…
“Frankie Trull, science advocate and President of the Foundation for Medical Research says, “An immediate end to animal research in the U.S. would be a death sentence for millions of people around the world,” (Ericson, 2014, b).” The reality is, many of today's advancements in research have come from animal testing. No matter how many trials they took, most advancements were at least started with animal testing and grew from there. All vaccines, chemotherapy, MRI’s, blood transfusions, dialysis, transplants, bypass surgery, joint replacements, and many other medical treatments were brought from research that started with animal testing (Ericson, 2014, a). This being said, as long as animal testing is accepted in laboratories, medical advancements can and will continue. If animal testing were to be abolished, research for many diseases would come to an alarming halt. Most scientists say that animal testing is a major key to research in genetic engineering and the study of neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's and an end to it would make research in these fields impossible (Ericson, 2014, a). It's argued that without animal testing, cures for these diseases would be impossible to find and research wouldn't be able to…