ANIMAL TESTING AND EXPERIMENTATION
Vioxx was tested to have a protective effect on hearts of animals, but it caused more than 27,000 heart attacks and cardiac deaths before it was pulled off of the shelf.
Animal testing and Experimentation
According to humane society international (2015), every year more than 100 million animals are killed in the U.S laboratories for testing and experimentation. The most common animals used for testing are mice, fish, rats, rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, farm animals, birds, cats, dogs and monkeys says hsi.org (2014). They are used for many different things. Aldf.org (2013) states that, testing on chimpanzees is banned from the UK. There is only two countries that have not banned them from being tested …show more content…
According to neavs.org (2015), animals are subjected to experiments that include everything from testing new drugs to infecting with diseases, poisoning for toxicity testing, burning skin, causing brain damage, implanting electrodes into the brain, maiming, blinding, and other painful and invasive procedures. Procon.org (2015), also states that when they are being experimented on they are forced to swallow medications, forced to inhale gases, prolonged periods of physical restraint, the infliction of burns and other wounds to study the healing process. They aren 't given any medication for pain during all of this. In (2010) USDA said that 97,100 animals suffer severe pain during experiments. After they are tested on they are killed by carbon dioxide asphyxiation, neck breaking or decapitation. Drake eye test used by cosmetics to evaluate irritations caused by shampoos and other products, involves rabbits being held in stocks with their eyes held open with clamps for multiple days so they can 't blink away the product being tested states procon.org (2015). They test Lethal dose 50 by finding out which dose of chemical would kill 50% of the animals being experimented on states the Animal Rights Action (2014). Rspca.org (2014), states that there are two types of lab animals. There is
ANIMAL TESTING AND EXPERIMENTATION class A and class B. Class A animals are bred and raised to be lab animals. In order for them to satisfy the conditions …show more content…
Animals should be offered the same level of respectful treatments as humans do. Stephanie Liou (2010) says that we should not have the right torture and kill animals. They should have the same moral status and equal treatment. It isn 't right that what is being done to these animals inside laboratories is okay but if it was done outside of them it would be a crime. Heather Dunnuck (1997) says that animals have thoughts, goals, needs and desires that are similar to human beings are, and a subject of life has an inherit value. Animal testing is a big deal. If people really looked into it and discovered how it is done and the many innocent animals suffer while their lives are being wasted, then maybe more people would be against it and try to help the decrease the amount of animals being tested on every year (1997). There is other ways things can be tested, cheaper ways. So why keep using innocent animals? Animals deserve the same level of respect that humans do. Just because they cannot have a say in their own lives, does not mean people should take advantage of
Vioxx was tested to have a protective effect on hearts of animals, but it caused more than 27,000 heart attacks and cardiac deaths before it was pulled off of the shelf.
Animal testing and Experimentation
According to humane society international (2015), every year more than 100 million animals are killed in the U.S laboratories for testing and experimentation. The most common animals used for testing are mice, fish, rats, rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, farm animals, birds, cats, dogs and monkeys says hsi.org (2014). They are used for many different things. Aldf.org (2013) states that, testing on chimpanzees is banned from the UK. There is only two countries that have not banned them from being tested …show more content…
According to neavs.org (2015), animals are subjected to experiments that include everything from testing new drugs to infecting with diseases, poisoning for toxicity testing, burning skin, causing brain damage, implanting electrodes into the brain, maiming, blinding, and other painful and invasive procedures. Procon.org (2015), also states that when they are being experimented on they are forced to swallow medications, forced to inhale gases, prolonged periods of physical restraint, the infliction of burns and other wounds to study the healing process. They aren 't given any medication for pain during all of this. In (2010) USDA said that 97,100 animals suffer severe pain during experiments. After they are tested on they are killed by carbon dioxide asphyxiation, neck breaking or decapitation. Drake eye test used by cosmetics to evaluate irritations caused by shampoos and other products, involves rabbits being held in stocks with their eyes held open with clamps for multiple days so they can 't blink away the product being tested states procon.org (2015). They test Lethal dose 50 by finding out which dose of chemical would kill 50% of the animals being experimented on states the Animal Rights Action (2014). Rspca.org (2014), states that there are two types of lab animals. There is
ANIMAL TESTING AND EXPERIMENTATION class A and class B. Class A animals are bred and raised to be lab animals. In order for them to satisfy the conditions …show more content…
Animals should be offered the same level of respectful treatments as humans do. Stephanie Liou (2010) says that we should not have the right torture and kill animals. They should have the same moral status and equal treatment. It isn 't right that what is being done to these animals inside laboratories is okay but if it was done outside of them it would be a crime. Heather Dunnuck (1997) says that animals have thoughts, goals, needs and desires that are similar to human beings are, and a subject of life has an inherit value. Animal testing is a big deal. If people really looked into it and discovered how it is done and the many innocent animals suffer while their lives are being wasted, then maybe more people would be against it and try to help the decrease the amount of animals being tested on every year (1997). There is other ways things can be tested, cheaper ways. So why keep using innocent animals? Animals deserve the same level of respect that humans do. Just because they cannot have a say in their own lives, does not mean people should take advantage of