Animal Experimentation: Inhumane And Unnecessary

Animal testing, also known as animal experimentation, animal research, and in vivo testing, is the use of non-human animals in experiments that seek to control the variables that affect the behavior or biological system under study. This approach can be contrasted with studies in which animals are observed in their natural environments. Examples of animal experimentation include lab testing, biomedical research, and cosmetic testing. Although animal testing has contributed to life-saving cures and treatments, animal testing is ultimately inhumane, unreliable, and unnecessary. Animal experimentation raises many issues with animal rights activists. Animal rights activists believe that animals should be treated with the same respect as humans are. They believe that animals are on the same moral level as humans. Animals rights is often confused with animal welfare, which is the rights animals have within a research facility. Although each research facility that use animals for testing must follow a guideline for how the animals must be treated, animal rights activists argue that animals used within research facilities are treated inhumanely. Animals in labs live stressful, monotonous lives filled with daily confinement and deprivation. In many research …show more content…
In order to be able to reduce animal experimentation, I must learn more about the different ways human cells react to certain drugs. I will be able to learn more about this through taking more biology and anatomy classes. I can also help reduce animal experimentation by advocating to others the amount of companies that use animals in the testing of their products. In order to ultimately reduce the use animals in research facilities, everyone must be aware of the hardships the innocent animals receive in the labs, and the alternatives that are available to receive more accurate, reliable