Windex, Lipstick, Tissues, When you pick these items up from the store, have you ever wondered what went into producing them? Sometimes testing is required by law to meet legal standards, but some of them aren’t needed and put animals in harm for no reason. Even if they are required, animals are still victims of possibly irreversible damage and harm.
The Animal Welfare Act specifically excludes rats, mice, birds and most cold-blooded animals, allowing them to be burned, poisoned, isolated, forcibly restrained, addicted to drugs given irreversible brain-damage with free reign (1). On top of this, U.S law does not require that painkillers or other forms of pain relief be used on the animals. Now the only suffering done to them …show more content…
Stated by Dr. Richard Klausner, former Director of the National Cancer Institute, “We have cured cancer in mice for decades—and it simply didn’t work in humans” (5). There have been numerous studies done with HIV using chimpanzees, unfairly humans and chimps have different effects of being infected by the disease that stunts research, and studies have shown that “all vaccines that have proven safe and efficacious in chimpanzees (as well as other nonhuman primates) have failed in humans, with one in 2007 actually increasing a human’s chance of HIV infection” (6). A study, cited in a 2012 paper detected chemicals that irritate human skin that was tested on rabbits showing to be wrong 40% of the time (7).
Animal testing is extremely expensive for how little it provides. It’s estimated that over 100 million animals are used annually (8) however in 2016, only 22 drugs were approved by the FDA (9) despite accounting for over 800,000 animals (10) and having a budget of nearly five billion …show more content…
“Cancer Drugs Face Long Road From Mice to Men.” Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 1998, articles.latimes.com/1998/may/06/news/mn-46795.
Bree Rodrigues, eBree Web Design, Cambridge, MA. “HIV/AIDS Debacle | Research | Release & Restitution for Chimpanzees.” Project R&R, www.releasechimps.org/research/contemporary/hiv-aids. AND Bailey, J. (2008). Alternatives to Laboratory Animals, 36(4): 381-428
Capaldo, Theodora. “Animal Data Is Not Reliable for Human Health Research.” LiveScience, Purch, 6 June 2014, www.livescience.com/46147-animal-data-unreliable-for-humans.html.
“How Many Animals Are Used in Experiments Worldwide?” Lush Prize, 18 June 2014, lushprize.org/many-animals-used-experiments-around-world/.
Hirschler, Ben. “New Drug Approvals Fall to Six-Year Low in 2016.” Reuters, Thomson Reuters, 2 Jan. 2017, www.reuters.com/article/us-pharmaceuticals-approvals/new-drug-approvals-fall-to-six-year-low-in-2016-idUSKBN14M08R. “US Statistics.” Speaking of Research, 20 June 2017, speakingofresearch.com/facts/statistics/. Secretary, HHS Office of the, and Office of Budget (OB). “FY2016 Budget in Brief - FDA.” HHS.gov, US Department of Health and Human Services, 13 Feb. 2015,
The Animal Welfare Act specifically excludes rats, mice, birds and most cold-blooded animals, allowing them to be burned, poisoned, isolated, forcibly restrained, addicted to drugs given irreversible brain-damage with free reign (1). On top of this, U.S law does not require that painkillers or other forms of pain relief be used on the animals. Now the only suffering done to them …show more content…
Stated by Dr. Richard Klausner, former Director of the National Cancer Institute, “We have cured cancer in mice for decades—and it simply didn’t work in humans” (5). There have been numerous studies done with HIV using chimpanzees, unfairly humans and chimps have different effects of being infected by the disease that stunts research, and studies have shown that “all vaccines that have proven safe and efficacious in chimpanzees (as well as other nonhuman primates) have failed in humans, with one in 2007 actually increasing a human’s chance of HIV infection” (6). A study, cited in a 2012 paper detected chemicals that irritate human skin that was tested on rabbits showing to be wrong 40% of the time (7).
Animal testing is extremely expensive for how little it provides. It’s estimated that over 100 million animals are used annually (8) however in 2016, only 22 drugs were approved by the FDA (9) despite accounting for over 800,000 animals (10) and having a budget of nearly five billion …show more content…
“Cancer Drugs Face Long Road From Mice to Men.” Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 1998, articles.latimes.com/1998/may/06/news/mn-46795.
Bree Rodrigues, eBree Web Design, Cambridge, MA. “HIV/AIDS Debacle | Research | Release & Restitution for Chimpanzees.” Project R&R, www.releasechimps.org/research/contemporary/hiv-aids. AND Bailey, J. (2008). Alternatives to Laboratory Animals, 36(4): 381-428
Capaldo, Theodora. “Animal Data Is Not Reliable for Human Health Research.” LiveScience, Purch, 6 June 2014, www.livescience.com/46147-animal-data-unreliable-for-humans.html.
“How Many Animals Are Used in Experiments Worldwide?” Lush Prize, 18 June 2014, lushprize.org/many-animals-used-experiments-around-world/.
Hirschler, Ben. “New Drug Approvals Fall to Six-Year Low in 2016.” Reuters, Thomson Reuters, 2 Jan. 2017, www.reuters.com/article/us-pharmaceuticals-approvals/new-drug-approvals-fall-to-six-year-low-in-2016-idUSKBN14M08R. “US Statistics.” Speaking of Research, 20 June 2017, speakingofresearch.com/facts/statistics/. Secretary, HHS Office of the, and Office of Budget (OB). “FY2016 Budget in Brief - FDA.” HHS.gov, US Department of Health and Human Services, 13 Feb. 2015,