The Importance Of Animal Testing In Medical Schools

Introduction It is getting close to everyone’s favorite time of the year, oh yes spring cleaning. Most likely everyone’s cleaning their bathroom with Clorox and spraying their house with Febreze, but little do people know these products were tested on thousands of animals before being put into their house.There are little fluffy bunnies out there being burned just to have our houses smell a little cleaner. Animal rights has always been a problem that has always been ignored. Animals do not need to be trapped in cages they need to be free and live the way the world wants them to live (“Animal Testing”). 100 million animals are being abused and used each year with no way of defending themselves (“Alternatives to Animal Testing”).
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Many schools are known for using animals for labs and test. The animals that are used in these labs are used to test their mentality and to see how they act towards things like shock. “Universities, Medical Schools, Pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, and military defence establishments” (Murnaghan) are all a big part of animal testing. In Medical Schools they usually use animals to for dissection and to show how the body works and to practice different procedures on them. When people practice biomed their major tool for research is using live animal research (Clemmit 3). Some of the animals are even strictly bred for medical testing reasons; some are also being captured in the wild. There are even companies that sell animals strictly for animal testing use …show more content…
What they found was that these two types of animals were forced into these small cages that have a wired bottom. These animals were sprayed with a pressure hose and were eventually terrified to even hear the noise. One mink was so terrified by the noise she bit a hole in the metal cage while others would spin like crazy when they heard the noise. Often these minks were found lying in their cage and under the cages were piles of their feces over 2 feet tall. The foxes were put through the same torture everyday. One of the foxes was kept for years and had produced a serious gum disease he had to suffer. This same fox was a fox they would use to reproduce. They said that they would take the fox and jerk it off and take the sperm to get the other foxes pregnant. Eventually this fox was killed in a gas chamber. The animals are kept and raised for two months before they are put into gas chamber to kill them so they could finally skin them for their fur. There was a couple times some of them could withstand the gas for over 5 minutes and were still gassed until they were dead. There was one time one of the minks actually survived the gas chamber so the workers ending breaking its neck. These foxes and minks were suffering and going mentally insane. Cameras showed how crazy the animals seemed and looked similar to what a person in an insane asylum would look at. Just imagine if a person was put