Animal Testing Essay:
Lives Saved, Yet Many More Lives Lost
Imagine that someone takes you from your cozy home, squeezes you into a cage, and takes you to a tall weird-looking building. Then, imagine that they force you to drink and take injections of liquids that you have never seen before. Suddenly, you start to feel sick and black out, forever. This is the story of more than a hundred million animals every year in animal testing labs. Animal testing is the use of animals for experimentation to determine the efficiency of drugs. Animal testing has resulted in numerous amounts of medical breakthroughs in science. Animal testing has saved millions of human’s lives around the world, but killed just as many animals’ lives as well. Many animals …show more content…
For example, Justin Goodman tells Newsweek, “Mice are like us in all the way matter...but the moral significance of those similarities is ignored.” (Source 3 P2) There is a lot of deep information in this quote. On the surface level, Goodman saying that our feelings towards mice are very low. We do not think highly of mice, so we consider them in a lower caste. Because the mice are not worth much to most humans, these humans believe that they have the right to test animals for their own good. Additionally, the quote is explaining that humans and animals are equal in every possible way, including their right to live the way they want. Furthermore, on a more deeper level, Goodman is explaining to the world that the words mean symbols. “Mice” means all animals tested and “moral significance of those similarities is ignored” means killing animals in animal testing without asking them. Since that has been clarified, the quote means that all of the scientists who tested the animals never asked the animals if they wanted to be tested. Obviously, the animals would have responded with a no. So, scientists are going against animal rights. All of these reasons easily point to animal
Lives Saved, Yet Many More Lives Lost
Imagine that someone takes you from your cozy home, squeezes you into a cage, and takes you to a tall weird-looking building. Then, imagine that they force you to drink and take injections of liquids that you have never seen before. Suddenly, you start to feel sick and black out, forever. This is the story of more than a hundred million animals every year in animal testing labs. Animal testing is the use of animals for experimentation to determine the efficiency of drugs. Animal testing has resulted in numerous amounts of medical breakthroughs in science. Animal testing has saved millions of human’s lives around the world, but killed just as many animals’ lives as well. Many animals …show more content…
For example, Justin Goodman tells Newsweek, “Mice are like us in all the way matter...but the moral significance of those similarities is ignored.” (Source 3 P2) There is a lot of deep information in this quote. On the surface level, Goodman saying that our feelings towards mice are very low. We do not think highly of mice, so we consider them in a lower caste. Because the mice are not worth much to most humans, these humans believe that they have the right to test animals for their own good. Additionally, the quote is explaining that humans and animals are equal in every possible way, including their right to live the way they want. Furthermore, on a more deeper level, Goodman is explaining to the world that the words mean symbols. “Mice” means all animals tested and “moral significance of those similarities is ignored” means killing animals in animal testing without asking them. Since that has been clarified, the quote means that all of the scientists who tested the animals never asked the animals if they wanted to be tested. Obviously, the animals would have responded with a no. So, scientists are going against animal rights. All of these reasons easily point to animal