Right now animals are being put through excruciating pain. You can prevent this. You can stop this injustice. You ca save countless helpless lives.
Animal experimentation has been an extraordinarily controversial topic since animal testing first began. Although I do not wish to exacerbate feud with an unforeseeable end I feel that I am obliged to bring some points to light. On one side of the fence there are animal rights activists who wish to protect vulnerable being who have no voice but on the other side thousands if not millions of helpless people are dying of illnesses of which a cure could be found if only animals were to be tested upon.
A common argument for the abolition of in vivo animal testing is that animals offer no consent to what is being done to their body. How would you like it if you were plucked from you how without your consent? …show more content…
This specific point is reinforced when you consider this. During the course of manufacturing an anti-wrinkle cream (for a popular franchise) a horrendous test was undergone. This test was known as “lethal dose fifty percent”. It involves injecting, in this case, mice with a powerful toxin, in this situation the anti-wrinkle cream, in order to determine the dose of the medicine will kill 50 percent of the test subjects. This caused nausea and a wave of muscle paralysis, leading to severe distress as they slowly and agonisingly suffocated to death over a three to four day period. The reason we caused harm to animals was to prevent harm being caused. It is fatuous… why were these mice not euthanized? I’ll tell you why because animal testing is incredibly cruel. On the other hand somebody could say that this test was a phenomenal success because if the cream had gone onto to market -without that test being performed- consumer may have applied too much of the product and instead of tens of mice dying hundreds of humans could have
Animal experimentation has been an extraordinarily controversial topic since animal testing first began. Although I do not wish to exacerbate feud with an unforeseeable end I feel that I am obliged to bring some points to light. On one side of the fence there are animal rights activists who wish to protect vulnerable being who have no voice but on the other side thousands if not millions of helpless people are dying of illnesses of which a cure could be found if only animals were to be tested upon.
A common argument for the abolition of in vivo animal testing is that animals offer no consent to what is being done to their body. How would you like it if you were plucked from you how without your consent? …show more content…
This specific point is reinforced when you consider this. During the course of manufacturing an anti-wrinkle cream (for a popular franchise) a horrendous test was undergone. This test was known as “lethal dose fifty percent”. It involves injecting, in this case, mice with a powerful toxin, in this situation the anti-wrinkle cream, in order to determine the dose of the medicine will kill 50 percent of the test subjects. This caused nausea and a wave of muscle paralysis, leading to severe distress as they slowly and agonisingly suffocated to death over a three to four day period. The reason we caused harm to animals was to prevent harm being caused. It is fatuous… why were these mice not euthanized? I’ll tell you why because animal testing is incredibly cruel. On the other hand somebody could say that this test was a phenomenal success because if the cream had gone onto to market -without that test being performed- consumer may have applied too much of the product and instead of tens of mice dying hundreds of humans could have