Arguments Against Animal Experimentation

Picture yourself being an innocent, helpless animal. You are being put into different rooms for horrific experiments. Doctors are touching you carelessly, while injecting unknown chemicals into your system. Within minutes, pain begins to take over your entire body, your heart begins to rise, and you ask yourself, what did I do to end up in here? Nobody understands you, then you look around and see other animals around you, and all of you are being treated equally wrong. Screaming and crying does not stop the Doctors, seems as if they don’t care. You have feelings just like the rest, but your life is insignificant in this place. Although animals suffer from similar diseases as humans, experimenting on an animal should be prohibited because animals react differently than humans, its unethical, and it takes a toll on animal life. …show more content…
Experimenting on animals has made an impact in preventing and treating different types of disease, such as cancer. Stuart Derbyshire is an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and a contributor of Animal Experimentation claims, “Without animal research, many of these areas of work will grind to a halt, and all will suffer setbacks causing human tragedy.” Scientist and others that justify these acts, truly believe that human life is depending on the results of animal research. Once again, Stuart Derbyshire states, “We place human wellbeing and health above that of animals and we unequivocally believe that human life comes first.” Even though the life of an animal is important, scientist make sure to put humans before anything