Each year, more than 100 million animals die each year from animal testing. Many scientists vote for animal testing even though it is cruel. In addition, most animals aren’t even put under anesthetic and have to suffer through the pain, fully aware of what is going on. Animals should not be tested on because it is cruel and inhumane, animals’ bodies are not the same as humans, and most experiments with animals are flawed and waste the animal’s life. To begin with, animal testing is cruel and inhumane. Animals are tortured for results. Besides, this cruel way of finding responses and data leaves animals traumatized. According to the Humane Society International, animals used in experimentations are commonly subjected to force feeding and inhalation, food, and water deprivation, prolonged periods of physical restraint, the infliction of burns and other wounds, suffocating in carbon dioxide, asphyxiation, neck-breaking, and decapitation. Another example would be the “Draize Eye Test”, it is used by many cosmetic companies to evaluate irritation caused by shampoo and other products. This experimentation includes, rabbits being incapacitated in
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Animals’ systems and bodily functions are different than humans. In fact, the anatomic, metabolic, and cellular differences between animals and people make animals-poor models for human beings. In addition, it’s hard to look at an animal’s body and try to imagine a human’s. Paul Furlong, Professor of Clinical Neuroimaging at Aston University states that, “It’s hard to create an animal model that even equates closely to what we are trying to achieve in the human.” Meanwhile, scientists say, “We have been curing mice of cancer for decades and it simply does not work on humans.” Thomas Hartung , Professor of evidence-based toxicology at John Hopkins university argues for alternatives to animal testing because, “We are not 70kg
Animals’ systems and bodily functions are different than humans. In fact, the anatomic, metabolic, and cellular differences between animals and people make animals-poor models for human beings. In addition, it’s hard to look at an animal’s body and try to imagine a human’s. Paul Furlong, Professor of Clinical Neuroimaging at Aston University states that, “It’s hard to create an animal model that even equates closely to what we are trying to achieve in the human.” Meanwhile, scientists say, “We have been curing mice of cancer for decades and it simply does not work on humans.” Thomas Hartung , Professor of evidence-based toxicology at John Hopkins university argues for alternatives to animal testing because, “We are not 70kg