The Well-being of a Human Life
Shouldn’t Depend on Another Life
The Well-being of a Human Life Shouldn’t Depend on Another Life
Imagine a child spending his entire life like a prisoner, locked in a cold and very tiny room, when he hasn’t committed any crime. He is scare and doesn’t know what is happening, all he knows is that he doesn’t want to be there and doesn’t belong there. He can see other children being poisoned, electrocuted, gassed, and killed. Now he knows what will happen to him, he wants to scream for help, but he has no voice. Then someone comes and aggressively grabs him from his little arm. The little innocent child is forced and tied to a bed and all he can do is scream of terror and cry. Then his eyes are abruptly open …show more content…
A toxic and acid substance is being put in his eyes. He has so much pain and he can’t even rub his eyes because he is tied up. He spends hours in pain while the people who did this to him are sitting behind a glass, monitoring the damage in his eyes to test a cosmetic. After hours of pain, first he became blind then he slowly dies. An innocent life dies just to do a Draize test for cosmetics. Inhumane right? Then why do we allow it on animals? This and other tests are done on thousands of innocent creatures; this is what thousands of animals experience in laboratories. Animals feel pain the same way humans do. Both animals and humans have sensations, think, behave, and feel pain. Jeremy Bentham once said: “The question is not, can they reason? Nor, can they talk? But, can they suffer?” Independently on how an individual perceives an animal, animals are living beings and deserve the same respect of life as a human being and their rights are being infringed when they are used for …show more content…
Animals are tested to research diseases, to calculate the effectiveness of new medicine, to test the safety of consumer products like cleaners, food additives and cosmetics. These investigations are done for a very high price: in addition, to being isolated in cold cages, and deprived from their natural habitat; animals in laboratories are psychologically and physically abused and forced to the inhalation of toxic fumes, immobilization in restrain devices for hours, holes drilled into their skulls and other parts of their body, others have their skin and eyes burned, amputation, food and water deprivation, breeding and separation of babies and mothers, electric shots are some of the painful procedures these innocent creatures experience before they die. The studies done are often useless, for example a research for the cure of cancer was done on mice, the mice were successfully cure of cancer, but on humans didn’t give the same
Shouldn’t Depend on Another Life
The Well-being of a Human Life Shouldn’t Depend on Another Life
Imagine a child spending his entire life like a prisoner, locked in a cold and very tiny room, when he hasn’t committed any crime. He is scare and doesn’t know what is happening, all he knows is that he doesn’t want to be there and doesn’t belong there. He can see other children being poisoned, electrocuted, gassed, and killed. Now he knows what will happen to him, he wants to scream for help, but he has no voice. Then someone comes and aggressively grabs him from his little arm. The little innocent child is forced and tied to a bed and all he can do is scream of terror and cry. Then his eyes are abruptly open …show more content…
A toxic and acid substance is being put in his eyes. He has so much pain and he can’t even rub his eyes because he is tied up. He spends hours in pain while the people who did this to him are sitting behind a glass, monitoring the damage in his eyes to test a cosmetic. After hours of pain, first he became blind then he slowly dies. An innocent life dies just to do a Draize test for cosmetics. Inhumane right? Then why do we allow it on animals? This and other tests are done on thousands of innocent creatures; this is what thousands of animals experience in laboratories. Animals feel pain the same way humans do. Both animals and humans have sensations, think, behave, and feel pain. Jeremy Bentham once said: “The question is not, can they reason? Nor, can they talk? But, can they suffer?” Independently on how an individual perceives an animal, animals are living beings and deserve the same respect of life as a human being and their rights are being infringed when they are used for …show more content…
Animals are tested to research diseases, to calculate the effectiveness of new medicine, to test the safety of consumer products like cleaners, food additives and cosmetics. These investigations are done for a very high price: in addition, to being isolated in cold cages, and deprived from their natural habitat; animals in laboratories are psychologically and physically abused and forced to the inhalation of toxic fumes, immobilization in restrain devices for hours, holes drilled into their skulls and other parts of their body, others have their skin and eyes burned, amputation, food and water deprivation, breeding and separation of babies and mothers, electric shots are some of the painful procedures these innocent creatures experience before they die. The studies done are often useless, for example a research for the cure of cancer was done on mice, the mice were successfully cure of cancer, but on humans didn’t give the same