Essay On Should Animal Testing Be Allowed

Animal Experimentation Should not be Allowed Anymore Why should a rabbit have to experimented on and suffered pain just for a lipstick to be consider safe to apply? Scientist have been using animals for tests, researches, and experiments for years. The experimentation on animals can be traced back all the way to the Second Century A.D. when the Greek physician, Galen, study the anatomy of animals by dissecting them while still being alive (“Animal Testing”). Centuries later scientists are still torturing animals for their practices; even though, technology has made huge scientific advances. Animals are used in laboratories and consequently mistreated when used for testing of medical theories, the safety of products, and other scientific experiments. Sadly, such creatures suffered extreme pain while being tested on, and it is the same pain humans would feel if they were being submitted through such experiments, consequently, animals should not be used for research and scientific experimentation because it is cruel and immoral. Animals should …show more content…
Frankie Trull, the president of the Foundation for Biomedical Research, emphasizes that “virtually every medical breakthrough in the past century has involved some animal research" (qtd. in “Animal Testing”). In addition, a recent experiment at the Duke University result in an experimental treatment for glimoblastoma multiforme, an aggressive brain tumor, that will save thousand of lives each year (Trull). He also points outs that without the use of animal experimentation medical discoveries like the treatment of melanoma patients with second generation herpes virus could not have been possible (Trull). It is known that animals have contributed to the cure and discovery of many diseases, however, humans have to questions themselves the fact that in the present other alternatives might be available for such