Animal Testing Nonhumane

Animal testing has been an enormous discussion in the biomedical realm over the last fifty years due to a question of superiority and injustice among species. Scientists perform “medical research” on animals in order to “benefit” mankind by elongating the human life span. In reality, several of these experiment results have no direct or immediate purpose in the medical industry, but rather are legal ways for researchers to test interests and personal curiosity.
For instance, in Case I, one researcher decided to use baboons as test subjects to understand the effects of brain trauma. Strapped to a stainless steel table and under immense Anastasia, the baboon was struck by an impact hammer where its’ brain tissue and bone fragments oozed from …show more content…
As a species who has moral thought and a subconscious, Humans have a sense of dominance over the animal kingdom. Many animal rights advocates use speciesism to explain human beings’ relationship to other species. Speciesism is the notion that the interests of nonhuman animals should not be considered. Animal testing may be justified as nonhuman animals lack the same mental capacity of human beings therefore, nonhuman animals forfeit their rights and should be utilized to benefit the human race. Alternatively, I do not condemn irrelevant experiments involving animal testing, whether or not animals contain the same mental capacity of human beings. I agree with Peter Singer as he correlates speciesism and racism. Singer states “blatant speciesism leads to panful experiments on other species, defended on the grounds of their contribution to knowledge and possible usefulness for our species.” He then refers to racism in Nazi concentration camps proclaiming “nearly two hundred doctors took part in experimenting on Jewish prisoners. To this day, the results of these experiments are reported to physicians without the slightest protest about the nature of the experiments.” Violating an innocent victims’ rights never justifies irrelevant