Animal Testing
“Over 100 million animals are burned, poisoned, and abused in the United States labs every year” (11 Facts About Animal Testing). “The Animal Welfare Act (AWA) does not cover rats, mice, fish, and birds; which compromise around 95% of the animals used in research. It leaves 25 other animals uncovered. These animals are especially vulnerable to mistreatment and abuse without the protection of the AWA” (Should Animals Be Used for Scientific or Cosmetic Testing?). Animal activists today are fighting and raising awareness in order to stop animal testing across the globe. Animal testing should be banned because it is unethical, cruel, causes massive suffering, and the animals feel pain.
To begin with, animal testing is unethical. People think it is unacceptable to subject a pig to a gruesome death in order to provide us with food, so why is it acceptable to subject a pig to test for a new cosmetic …show more content…
According to the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection, common use of laboratory animals includes testing for toxicity, brain research, dental research, and surgical experiments. The organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) exposed some disgusting scenes of animal experimentation, sometimes through unauthorized video recordings on private premises. People should ask themselves: why is one species loved and protected more than another? According to Humane Society International, cosmetic animal testing is still legal in 80% of the world and an estimated 300,000 animals die each year in cosmetic animal tests in China alone. Many experiments Involving animals fail, wasting lives of innocent animal subjects. According to Humane Society, registration of a single pesticide requires more than 50 experiments and the use of as many as 12,000 animals. “Despite obvious differences between humans and
“Over 100 million animals are burned, poisoned, and abused in the United States labs every year” (11 Facts About Animal Testing). “The Animal Welfare Act (AWA) does not cover rats, mice, fish, and birds; which compromise around 95% of the animals used in research. It leaves 25 other animals uncovered. These animals are especially vulnerable to mistreatment and abuse without the protection of the AWA” (Should Animals Be Used for Scientific or Cosmetic Testing?). Animal activists today are fighting and raising awareness in order to stop animal testing across the globe. Animal testing should be banned because it is unethical, cruel, causes massive suffering, and the animals feel pain.
To begin with, animal testing is unethical. People think it is unacceptable to subject a pig to a gruesome death in order to provide us with food, so why is it acceptable to subject a pig to test for a new cosmetic …show more content…
According to the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection, common use of laboratory animals includes testing for toxicity, brain research, dental research, and surgical experiments. The organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) exposed some disgusting scenes of animal experimentation, sometimes through unauthorized video recordings on private premises. People should ask themselves: why is one species loved and protected more than another? According to Humane Society International, cosmetic animal testing is still legal in 80% of the world and an estimated 300,000 animals die each year in cosmetic animal tests in China alone. Many experiments Involving animals fail, wasting lives of innocent animal subjects. According to Humane Society, registration of a single pesticide requires more than 50 experiments and the use of as many as 12,000 animals. “Despite obvious differences between humans and