Animal Testing Essay

Animal Experimentation: Helping Humans, Hurting Animals Animal experimentation has been a resource for humans in centuries past to help better our survival, to some, it’s vital to humanity and to others, it should be eliminated completely. The controversy of animal testing has been going on since ancient times. For example, the Greeks used animals for scientific or religious purposes. Some of the world’s best philosophers have given their opinion on animal testing (Stump, Paragraph #1). For some people, animal experimentation is extremely useful and a necessity to humans. On the other hand, some think it is “morally unthinkable” and “unethical”. Animal experimentation is a big part of our world, killing over one hundred million animals per …show more content…
Many people who are against animal testing find it to be unethical, and they have many reasons why. The way that the tested animals are tortured is cruel and inhumane. Animals experimented on are “commonly subjected” to forced feeding, forced inhalation, deprivation of food and water, long periods of physical restraint, burns and other wounds (in order to study the healing process), infliction of pain, and other ways to flat out kill them (Pro-Con, Paragraph 6b). Many people find it to be unethical for several reasons, such as that animals are living, feeling beings and do not deserve to be treated the way that they are (Peta, Paragraph #2), of humanity’s personal …show more content…
It has aided in treatments and cures to diseases that may have seemed incurable. Animal testing has also been vital in many medical breakthroughs. Without animal experimentation some of the treatments that exist today, may not have been created. Animal research, although it is cruel to the animals, in a lot of instances in medical history, it has showed its importance. Though some people think that it can be replaced with alternatives, in the end a living system cannot be replaced by cells in a petri