Why Is Animal Testing Unethical

No experiment on animals is illegal, no matter how cruel , irrelevant to human health, redundant, or painful. In the summer id 1981, one if peta’s founders, a student named Alex Pacheco, wanted experience in a lab. Alex began working undercover at institute for Behavioral Research. The institute for Behavioral research was in silver spring, Maryland. Edward Taub a man with no medical training had 17 monkeys living monkeys living in a small wired cages that were caked with years of feces. The monkeys had gone through a series of torture, such as food deprivation and electric shock. In one experiment they were kept immobile in a makeshift refrigerator, the monkeys were strapped in with packing tape. In Charles River Laboratories three days were forced to ingest a test substance everyday for five days. The three dogs experienced labored breathing and a high heart rate. They could not be aroused and were cold to the touch. One of the dogs died days later and the other two were euthanized two days later. …show more content…
Animal testing is unethical, wasteful, and bad science. The world does not need another eyeline, hand soap, or food ingredient at another living creatures cost. Animal testing in unethical. Animals are thinking and feeling creatures, and it is unethical to sentence 100 million of them to a life of pain in a laboratory. Creatures in the labs have a complete lack of environment, their living situations are so stressful that the animals develop neurotic behavior such as: spinning in circles, rocking back and forth, pulling out their own fur, and biting themselves. Most of these animals live their whole life in a small cold cage cowering in