Animal experimenting is not right or worth doing. Most would agree that it’s wrong to put another innocent living being life over your own. By putting animals through experimentation, we are putting them through suffering and death. Even if an animal is not suffering or dying from experiments we conduct they still are being taken away from their lives out in the wild where they should be.
There are many good reasons why we should stop experimenting. As I already mentioned its unethical meaning its not morally correct. When we conduct experiments, we are performing speciesism which involves assigning different values, rights, or special consideration to individuals solely based on their species membership. We are looking down on animals as if they don’t deserve rights and their life doesn’t have value compared to ours. I find experimenting to be unethical because both humans and animals can feel pain and …show more content…
Even though we provide experiments on animals doesn’t mean we have stopped performing experiments on humans. No matter how many animal tests that go correctly there still will have to be people to be tested on as well. Most people would argue that by testing animals first we are lowering the odds of something going wrong with us which is true, but not a very good statement. According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 92 percent of drugs shown to be safe and effective in animals actually fail in human trials. This occurs because humans and animals may have similar, but not identical biological makeup. Even if a drug is approved for humans there typically are a overwhelming number of potential side effects that nobody wants to deal with. Just think about the medication commercials and how the voice listing the potential side effects is speaking at a hundred miles per hour. They don’t want you to stop and think on how unpredictable these drugs they are putting out in the world
There are many good reasons why we should stop experimenting. As I already mentioned its unethical meaning its not morally correct. When we conduct experiments, we are performing speciesism which involves assigning different values, rights, or special consideration to individuals solely based on their species membership. We are looking down on animals as if they don’t deserve rights and their life doesn’t have value compared to ours. I find experimenting to be unethical because both humans and animals can feel pain and …show more content…
Even though we provide experiments on animals doesn’t mean we have stopped performing experiments on humans. No matter how many animal tests that go correctly there still will have to be people to be tested on as well. Most people would argue that by testing animals first we are lowering the odds of something going wrong with us which is true, but not a very good statement. According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 92 percent of drugs shown to be safe and effective in animals actually fail in human trials. This occurs because humans and animals may have similar, but not identical biological makeup. Even if a drug is approved for humans there typically are a overwhelming number of potential side effects that nobody wants to deal with. Just think about the medication commercials and how the voice listing the potential side effects is speaking at a hundred miles per hour. They don’t want you to stop and think on how unpredictable these drugs they are putting out in the world