Is it advantageous or more harmful to continue medical testing on animals? Over one hundred million animals are burned, crippled and abused in laboratories each year (“11 facts about animal testing” Wed). Most of the animals being tested have little to no legal protection, laboratories where the animal testing takes place do not follow the few rights that animals do have. These animals in the labs experience mental and physical cruelty for research that is not going to benefit them in any way later on. The animals being experimented on usually end up dead at the end of the research process. Researchers use animals when testing new medications for life threating diseases because animals are an effective model for the human body. Animals
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Animals in laboratories are being burned, cut opened and abused without any painkillers (“About Us” Web). These animals are feeling everything that is being done to them during the testing process because researchers don’t care enough to slip the animals some painkillers. Even though mice and rats are not the ideal “family pet”, they also use monkeys and pigs, no animal should have to go through the pain these animals experience in the laboratories every day and more than just one time a day. Research laboratories abuse their animals and do not adhere to the few animal rights. In Medical Lake, Washington a human prison was remodeled into a monkey breeding center called Primate Field Station, which is now abandoned. This Field Station bred monkeys for testing. Some of these animals died of thirst, others died eventually because they were just left there with nothing to eat. This field station was only fined once, which is amazing considering how much was done legally to these animals. William A. Morton was the director of the field station, he had twenty-one funded studies to infect the monkeys with various diseases like HIVs and SIVs. The HIV and SIV injections caused illness and even became deadly later on (“UW Kills Animals”). Even though animal …show more content…
A solution would be to enforce the animal rights more. There should be more fines and consequences if a laboratory or facility is not following the laws. Also, authorities should check up on laboratories more than just twice a year. There should be surprise visits and strict rules about who can work in these research facilities. The abuse of animals in medical laboratories has gone on far too long and should not be overlooked anymore. We as humans must realize that these creatures feel pain and suffer just the same as we
Animals in laboratories are being burned, cut opened and abused without any painkillers (“About Us” Web). These animals are feeling everything that is being done to them during the testing process because researchers don’t care enough to slip the animals some painkillers. Even though mice and rats are not the ideal “family pet”, they also use monkeys and pigs, no animal should have to go through the pain these animals experience in the laboratories every day and more than just one time a day. Research laboratories abuse their animals and do not adhere to the few animal rights. In Medical Lake, Washington a human prison was remodeled into a monkey breeding center called Primate Field Station, which is now abandoned. This Field Station bred monkeys for testing. Some of these animals died of thirst, others died eventually because they were just left there with nothing to eat. This field station was only fined once, which is amazing considering how much was done legally to these animals. William A. Morton was the director of the field station, he had twenty-one funded studies to infect the monkeys with various diseases like HIVs and SIVs. The HIV and SIV injections caused illness and even became deadly later on (“UW Kills Animals”). Even though animal …show more content…
A solution would be to enforce the animal rights more. There should be more fines and consequences if a laboratory or facility is not following the laws. Also, authorities should check up on laboratories more than just twice a year. There should be surprise visits and strict rules about who can work in these research facilities. The abuse of animals in medical laboratories has gone on far too long and should not be overlooked anymore. We as humans must realize that these creatures feel pain and suffer just the same as we