Horrors of Animal Testing
100 million animals are killed each year for medical training, biology lessons, experiments and commercial testing. They are usually are mice, rats, frogs, dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs, monkeys, fish and birds. But when companies and scientists experiment on them, the tests are sometimes really brutal and inhumane. Animal testing and experimentation has to end.
Animal testing is a big problem, because the animals are sometimes mistreated and subjected to terrible tests. According to Humane Society International, the Draize eye test consists of rabbits being restrained and having their eyes held open while prototype products are dripped into their eyes to test how irritating the products are to the eyes, sometimes for days on end. After the test is performed, the rabbits are killed. Also, according to animalsinscience.org, animals are also subjected to the Lethal Dose 50, or LD50 test. This involves forcing animals, often rats and mice, to be injected with a lethal chemical to see how much of a dose kills 50% of the subjects involved. Furthermore, according to peta.org, laboratories and commercial testers are allowed to burn, shock, poison, isolate, starve, drown or inflict permanent brain damage to lab animals. And the testers are not required to give the animals any kind of anesthesia. …show more content…
For example, in vitro testing, which involves studying cell cultures in a test tube or a petri dish. The upside to this is that human cells can be used for testing. Microdosing is another option in which is when humans are administered minute amounts of an experimental product and scientists evaluate the impact that it has on the cellular level. These options cost less money in almost every scenario
100 million animals are killed each year for medical training, biology lessons, experiments and commercial testing. They are usually are mice, rats, frogs, dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs, monkeys, fish and birds. But when companies and scientists experiment on them, the tests are sometimes really brutal and inhumane. Animal testing and experimentation has to end.
Animal testing is a big problem, because the animals are sometimes mistreated and subjected to terrible tests. According to Humane Society International, the Draize eye test consists of rabbits being restrained and having their eyes held open while prototype products are dripped into their eyes to test how irritating the products are to the eyes, sometimes for days on end. After the test is performed, the rabbits are killed. Also, according to animalsinscience.org, animals are also subjected to the Lethal Dose 50, or LD50 test. This involves forcing animals, often rats and mice, to be injected with a lethal chemical to see how much of a dose kills 50% of the subjects involved. Furthermore, according to peta.org, laboratories and commercial testers are allowed to burn, shock, poison, isolate, starve, drown or inflict permanent brain damage to lab animals. And the testers are not required to give the animals any kind of anesthesia. …show more content…
For example, in vitro testing, which involves studying cell cultures in a test tube or a petri dish. The upside to this is that human cells can be used for testing. Microdosing is another option in which is when humans are administered minute amounts of an experimental product and scientists evaluate the impact that it has on the cellular level. These options cost less money in almost every scenario