Imagine if you were kept prisoner in a facility where you couldn’t control what and when you ate, when the lights went on or off, and had zero control over how you lived your life. Imagine living your life locked up in prison for not committing any crime or doing anything wrong. Isolation, starvation, deprivation, this is how life is for animals locked up in lab facilities being tested for things as simple as cosmetics to as complex cures for diseases.
The United States Government allows animals to be shocked, burned, drugged, starved, brain damaged, poisoned, and many other things all for a simple test where alternatives could be used, but are not required.
Many people see animal testing in a laboratory as harmless and a necessity because, if we don’t test on animals how will we know a product is safe? Animal testing …show more content…
There are many levels of classification of organisms. Organisms are classified based on these groups, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species. Humans and most abused animals are all in the same kingdom, phylum, and class meaning that they are closely related to each other, however a life-form is mainly determined by their genus and species which is where humans and nonhuman animals differ. The Humane Society International (HSI) stated in its article titled "About Animal Testing," posted on the HSI website, “Trying to mirror human diseases or toxicity by artificially creating symptoms in mice, dogs or monkeys has major scientific limitations that cannot be overcome. Very often the symptoms and responses to potential treatments seen in other species are dissimilar to those of human patients. As a consequence, nine out of every 10 candidate medicines that appear safe and
The United States Government allows animals to be shocked, burned, drugged, starved, brain damaged, poisoned, and many other things all for a simple test where alternatives could be used, but are not required.
Many people see animal testing in a laboratory as harmless and a necessity because, if we don’t test on animals how will we know a product is safe? Animal testing …show more content…
There are many levels of classification of organisms. Organisms are classified based on these groups, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species. Humans and most abused animals are all in the same kingdom, phylum, and class meaning that they are closely related to each other, however a life-form is mainly determined by their genus and species which is where humans and nonhuman animals differ. The Humane Society International (HSI) stated in its article titled "About Animal Testing," posted on the HSI website, “Trying to mirror human diseases or toxicity by artificially creating symptoms in mice, dogs or monkeys has major scientific limitations that cannot be overcome. Very often the symptoms and responses to potential treatments seen in other species are dissimilar to those of human patients. As a consequence, nine out of every 10 candidate medicines that appear safe and