Animal Testing Papers

Animal Testing What is animal testing? Animal testing is the use of animals in research and development projects for purposes of determining the safety of substances such as food and drugs.” (“animal” Internet). Many animals are suffering or they just die. Why do they think it’s okay to hurt innocent animals? Animals get tested to help humans get better and also to try new things. Animal testing is wrong because innocent animals are locked in cages, getting pricked and poked by needles, while not knowing why they are being subjected to this abuse. This inhumane and needless suffering needs to stop; animal testing should be illegal. Animal testing may help human illness. “Animals suffer from similar diseases to humans including cancers, TB, flu and asthma.” In the United Kingdom 97% of research is done on mice, rats, fish and birds (“understanding” Internet). “Animal testing has contributed to many life saving cures and treatments. The California …show more content…
“Animals that develop toxic injury or disease during toxicology research and testing studies often experience significant pain, distress, suffering, and/or death. Nearly all of the estimated 2000 new chemicals and thousands of chemical products introduced each year must undergo acute safety tests to determine whether the substance is toxic or lethal and whether it causes allergic skin reactions or damage to eyes or skin. Much of this acute testing is still conducted using mice, rats, guinea pigs, and rabbits, with many animals experiencing death, acute illness, pain, and distress from toxic effects. Many substances also require chronic toxicity and carcinogenicity studies that use over 600 rats and mice dosed for 2 year, during which up to 50% of the animals die or must be euthanized before the end of the study because of severe chronic disease and/or excessive tumor burden” (stokes,