“A dog, maybe a monkey, only a rat— someone inhuman, less than human, maybe even the same— cries in the dark and cannot bear another moment of pain. He dreams of a place called home but waking remembers it is only a dream. Yet maybe they will think of you with the soap they use to wash away dirt, little sins they forget or choose to ignore, with the powders and shadows they wear to hide truths, or the polish they sweat over so their floors shine just so. Yes, the rest of the world, in its way does remember you but thinks nothing of what you have given so they can have more” (Newbury 1). This short passage was written to show how inhumane our civilization is for using living creatures as test subjects. The passage was dedicated to every lab
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Animals do not suffer diseases such as Parkinson’s disease and many types of cancer because their bodies with diseases differently than humans. Dogs are typically given experimental drugs which have toxins in them, but toxins to dogs are different from what humans consider toxins. Dogs can not eat chocolate, grapes, raisins, avocados, or nuts because they are filled with toxins that could cause the dog to get very sick or potentially die. The most commonly used animal in the labs, monkeys, has been able to take in high doses of a drug called Paracetamol, a medicine that relieves pain and fevers, but for humans, this drug would be extremely deadly. When given the drug that humans use on a regular bases such as Aspirin, cats, mice, and rats were very intoxicated by the drug. The intoxication was so severe that if Aspirin had been based on the test results, this product would not be on the shelves (Animal-Testing). With all of these facts, it is hard to believe that scientists still think it is okay to torture and kill these innocent …show more content…
Those who think animal testing should be legal say that it has helped develop life saving treatments on both animals and humans and that there is no alternative. With today’s ever-changing society, scientists have found a new way to test substances and how they react with our bodies. Scientists take human cells and place them in a petri dish; by doing this, they can see how our bodies would react. Some may ask how would we test a substance on our skin? Artificial human skin can be made from sheets of human skin cells which are more useful and dependable than animals delicate skin. With the evolving computer technology, there are virtual reconstructions of the human molecular structure and can predict the toxicity of substances. Chimpanzees share almost 99% of their DNA with humans and rats share 98%, so why would a chimpanzee not be a perfect test animal? According to Paul Furlong, a professor at Aston University says that all animals have anatomic, metabolic and cellular difference from humans. “We are not 70 kg rats”(animal-testing) states Thomas Hartung, a professor at John Hopkins University, he argues that there are alternatives because an animals response to an experiment will not always be a humans
Animals do not suffer diseases such as Parkinson’s disease and many types of cancer because their bodies with diseases differently than humans. Dogs are typically given experimental drugs which have toxins in them, but toxins to dogs are different from what humans consider toxins. Dogs can not eat chocolate, grapes, raisins, avocados, or nuts because they are filled with toxins that could cause the dog to get very sick or potentially die. The most commonly used animal in the labs, monkeys, has been able to take in high doses of a drug called Paracetamol, a medicine that relieves pain and fevers, but for humans, this drug would be extremely deadly. When given the drug that humans use on a regular bases such as Aspirin, cats, mice, and rats were very intoxicated by the drug. The intoxication was so severe that if Aspirin had been based on the test results, this product would not be on the shelves (Animal-Testing). With all of these facts, it is hard to believe that scientists still think it is okay to torture and kill these innocent …show more content…
Those who think animal testing should be legal say that it has helped develop life saving treatments on both animals and humans and that there is no alternative. With today’s ever-changing society, scientists have found a new way to test substances and how they react with our bodies. Scientists take human cells and place them in a petri dish; by doing this, they can see how our bodies would react. Some may ask how would we test a substance on our skin? Artificial human skin can be made from sheets of human skin cells which are more useful and dependable than animals delicate skin. With the evolving computer technology, there are virtual reconstructions of the human molecular structure and can predict the toxicity of substances. Chimpanzees share almost 99% of their DNA with humans and rats share 98%, so why would a chimpanzee not be a perfect test animal? According to Paul Furlong, a professor at Aston University says that all animals have anatomic, metabolic and cellular difference from humans. “We are not 70 kg rats”(animal-testing) states Thomas Hartung, a professor at John Hopkins University, he argues that there are alternatives because an animals response to an experiment will not always be a humans