Utilizing living animal for the benefit of researcher and for the testing many types of products has been a matter of heated debate for for many of years now. Many people consider animals as pets or companions; whereas others look upon animals as only aids for researchers to study on. Despite peoples feeling towards animals, the reality is that animals across the country and around the world animals are being abused by cosmetics companies and research facilities. Even though humans sometimes benefit from successful animal testing, the pain, the torment, and deaths of the animals are not worth the potential benefits it may bring to humans. However, With all the new advancements in medical and scientific technology, the pain and suffering of
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Animals testing has been used frequently throughout the history of the human body research. Early Greek physician-scientists, like Aristotle and Erasistratus were using animals to conduct experiments. Also like Aristotle and Erasistratus, Galen, a Greek physician who practiced in Rome and was a giant in the history of medicine, conducted animal experiments to advance the understanding of anatomy, physiology, pathology, and pharmacology. Ibn Zuhr (Avenzoar), an Arab physician in twelfth century Moorish Spain, introduced animal testing as an experimental method for testing surgical procedures before applying them to human …show more content…
These, over one hundred million, animals are used for many different types of testing and experiments. Some of these test include forced chemical exposure intoxicate testing, which can include oral force-feeding, forced inhalation, skin or injection into the abdomen, muscle, etc., exposure to drugs, chemicals or infectious disease at leaves that cause illness, pain and distress, or death, and Genetic manipulation, addition or “knocking out” of one or more genes. One of the first cases of animal testing is the Silver Spring Monkeys case. The case was brought about in the summer of 1981 by a student named Alex Pacheco, one of PETA’s. Alex Pacheco was working undercover at the Institute for Behavioral Research (IBR) located in Silver Spring, Maryland, where he found 17 monkeys in horrendous living conditions. The moneys were subjected to many tortuous procedures and were neglected to food and water. After, gathering enough detailed notes, photos of the crippled money and their horrible living conditions, and showing experts witnesses around the lab at night, PETA took the information to the police. All the evidence on the IBR led to, as it says in PETA’s article The Silver Spring Monkeys: The Case That Launched PETA, “(T)he nation’s first arrest and criminal conviction
Animals testing has been used frequently throughout the history of the human body research. Early Greek physician-scientists, like Aristotle and Erasistratus were using animals to conduct experiments. Also like Aristotle and Erasistratus, Galen, a Greek physician who practiced in Rome and was a giant in the history of medicine, conducted animal experiments to advance the understanding of anatomy, physiology, pathology, and pharmacology. Ibn Zuhr (Avenzoar), an Arab physician in twelfth century Moorish Spain, introduced animal testing as an experimental method for testing surgical procedures before applying them to human …show more content…
These, over one hundred million, animals are used for many different types of testing and experiments. Some of these test include forced chemical exposure intoxicate testing, which can include oral force-feeding, forced inhalation, skin or injection into the abdomen, muscle, etc., exposure to drugs, chemicals or infectious disease at leaves that cause illness, pain and distress, or death, and Genetic manipulation, addition or “knocking out” of one or more genes. One of the first cases of animal testing is the Silver Spring Monkeys case. The case was brought about in the summer of 1981 by a student named Alex Pacheco, one of PETA’s. Alex Pacheco was working undercover at the Institute for Behavioral Research (IBR) located in Silver Spring, Maryland, where he found 17 monkeys in horrendous living conditions. The moneys were subjected to many tortuous procedures and were neglected to food and water. After, gathering enough detailed notes, photos of the crippled money and their horrible living conditions, and showing experts witnesses around the lab at night, PETA took the information to the police. All the evidence on the IBR led to, as it says in PETA’s article The Silver Spring Monkeys: The Case That Launched PETA, “(T)he nation’s first arrest and criminal conviction