Intro: Across the world there are millions of different animals stuck inside cold, lonely cages in testing facilities waiting for a chance to roam free and escape their pain filled lives. The pointless suffering animals go through during animal testing is cruel, dangerous, and often ineffective. Imagine your life as a prisoner, trapped inside a cage your whole life even though you have committed no crime. Not only are animals deprived of a free life, they are often subject to painful tests and experiments. U.S law allows animals to be burned, shocked, poisoned, isolated, starved, drowned, addicted to drugs, and brain-damaged. There is no laws that prohibit these experiments, no matter how painful or deadly. From injecting animals with deadly
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An analysis of over 100 mouse cell types found that only 50% of the DNA responsible for regulating genes in mice could be matched with human DNA. How could this be safe? Tests that may pass as safe on a mouse may not have the same effects as a human. II. Many will argue that if we didn 't use animals we would have to test new drugs on people. Well the fact is that whether we use animals or not, there will always be a first person to test a new drug. The FDA has noted that 92% of all drugs that are shown to be safe and effective in animal tests fail in human trials because they don’t work or are dangerous. Out of that 8% that pass the human trial, half of them will need to be re- labeled because of side effects that showed in the human test, but not the animal. III. There was a paper published in the British medical Journal titled " Where is the evidence that animal research benefits humans?" The researches explained that there is little evidence that supports the idea that animal research has benefited humans. In fact many recent medical advancements can be attributed to human studies. Relationships between cholesterol and heart disease, the development of heart disease, and the isolation of …show more content…
The amount of money we waste on animal testing is un believable. The US National institutes of Health spends about 14 billion of its 31 billion annual budget on animal research. The amount of waste , cruelty, and ineffectiveness is unreal. I. Humane Society International compared the cost of a few random animal testing methods and their cruelty free alternative. An "unscheduled DNA synthesis" animal test costs $32,000, while the alternative method would cost about $11,000. A "rat uterotrophic assay" costs $29,600, while the alternative test costs $7,200. II. Most experiments conducted on animals are flawed and end up wasting innocent lives. A study found serious flaws in many of the publicly funded research centers in the United States that use rodents and primates. 87% of the studies failed to randomize the selection of animals (a technique used to reduce "selection bias") and 86% did not use "blinding" (another technique to reduce researcher bias). Also, "only 59% of the studies stated the hypothesis or objective of the study and the number and characteristics of the animals used." Since the majority of animals used in biomedical research are killed during or after the experiments, and since many suffer during the studies, the lives and wellbeing of animals are routinely sacrificed for poor
An analysis of over 100 mouse cell types found that only 50% of the DNA responsible for regulating genes in mice could be matched with human DNA. How could this be safe? Tests that may pass as safe on a mouse may not have the same effects as a human. II. Many will argue that if we didn 't use animals we would have to test new drugs on people. Well the fact is that whether we use animals or not, there will always be a first person to test a new drug. The FDA has noted that 92% of all drugs that are shown to be safe and effective in animal tests fail in human trials because they don’t work or are dangerous. Out of that 8% that pass the human trial, half of them will need to be re- labeled because of side effects that showed in the human test, but not the animal. III. There was a paper published in the British medical Journal titled " Where is the evidence that animal research benefits humans?" The researches explained that there is little evidence that supports the idea that animal research has benefited humans. In fact many recent medical advancements can be attributed to human studies. Relationships between cholesterol and heart disease, the development of heart disease, and the isolation of …show more content…
The amount of money we waste on animal testing is un believable. The US National institutes of Health spends about 14 billion of its 31 billion annual budget on animal research. The amount of waste , cruelty, and ineffectiveness is unreal. I. Humane Society International compared the cost of a few random animal testing methods and their cruelty free alternative. An "unscheduled DNA synthesis" animal test costs $32,000, while the alternative method would cost about $11,000. A "rat uterotrophic assay" costs $29,600, while the alternative test costs $7,200. II. Most experiments conducted on animals are flawed and end up wasting innocent lives. A study found serious flaws in many of the publicly funded research centers in the United States that use rodents and primates. 87% of the studies failed to randomize the selection of animals (a technique used to reduce "selection bias") and 86% did not use "blinding" (another technique to reduce researcher bias). Also, "only 59% of the studies stated the hypothesis or objective of the study and the number and characteristics of the animals used." Since the majority of animals used in biomedical research are killed during or after the experiments, and since many suffer during the studies, the lives and wellbeing of animals are routinely sacrificed for poor