Animal Testing Is Inhumane Essay

Animals have the ability to experience a variety of feelings and emotions just as we humans do. They experience pain, pleasure, agitation, and even sadness.Just as we suffer, as do they. During experiments, mothers are breed repeatedly and then separated from the young. When pain is evident, the same process that takes place in our bodies, happens in theirs as well. For the duration of the experiment, test subjects are required to be put under an anesthetic. Reports show that at least 10 percent of animals tested on do not receive painkillers. (Andre and Velasquez). Inhumane means to be without compassion for misery or suffering; cruel. Animal experimentation is an inhumane act performed on innocent animals for the sake of “further medical development”. Test subjects are subjected to cruel and invasive experiments. During these experiments, animals are shocked, burned, and poisoned for the sake of human benefit. (Andre and Velasquez). They are used to test the toxicity of a product, which may involve some blinding and/or maiming. Some animals have their limbs …show more content…
After the on-call veterinarian failed to respond to a technologist's request to examine him to decide whether he should be humanely euthanized, the pig died overnight. (The Humane Society, 207). Once again, the animal forced to suffer. Instead of attempting to alleviate the pain, he was simply observed until observed until they had no choice to get rid of him. Except this time, unlike the incident with the monkey, the subject died before they could euthanize it. Instead of killing the animals, why haven’t they tried to reverse their