Animal Testing: Beneficial or Inhumane
Is animal testing really efficient or time wasting? It is said that animal testing is unnecessary and purposeless. Would you want your beloved pet to be tested on, go through painful medical procedures, and left for dead? The testing on animals are expensive, consumes a lot of unresentful time and energy, and basically kills animals. “An estimated 26 million animals are used every year in the United States for scientific and commercial testing.”
Animals are used to develop medical treatments, find out the toxicity of medications, check the safety for human use, and other health care uses. “The Animal Welfare Act defines “animal” as “any live or dead dog, cat, monkey, guinea pig, hamster, rabbit, …show more content…
They are confined to empty cages for hours at a time and caused social isolation, and psychological trauma. “The choice is not between animals and humans; it’s between good science and bad science. Between methods that relate directly to humans and those that do not. It is time to switch to humane, effective, and modern non- animal testing methods which don’t cause animal suffering and do offer us the hope of effective medical …show more content…
"Animal Testing Should Be Banned." Teen Ink. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 Mar. 2018.)
The animals are then forced fed, deprived of food and water, restrained physically for prolonged periods, and inflicted with burns, wounds and pain to test for healing process effects and remedies, and even killed through neck breaking or asphyxiation. Plenty of animal lives are wasted, considering all the tests failed not to mention other non- experimental factors that affect animals. There is a significant number of animal lives wasted for nothing.
(16 Integral Pros and Cons of Animal Experimentation." ConnectUS. N.p., 19 Aug. 2015. Web. 26 Mar.
Is animal testing really efficient or time wasting? It is said that animal testing is unnecessary and purposeless. Would you want your beloved pet to be tested on, go through painful medical procedures, and left for dead? The testing on animals are expensive, consumes a lot of unresentful time and energy, and basically kills animals. “An estimated 26 million animals are used every year in the United States for scientific and commercial testing.”
Animals are used to develop medical treatments, find out the toxicity of medications, check the safety for human use, and other health care uses. “The Animal Welfare Act defines “animal” as “any live or dead dog, cat, monkey, guinea pig, hamster, rabbit, …show more content…
They are confined to empty cages for hours at a time and caused social isolation, and psychological trauma. “The choice is not between animals and humans; it’s between good science and bad science. Between methods that relate directly to humans and those that do not. It is time to switch to humane, effective, and modern non- animal testing methods which don’t cause animal suffering and do offer us the hope of effective medical …show more content…
"Animal Testing Should Be Banned." Teen Ink. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 Mar. 2018.)
The animals are then forced fed, deprived of food and water, restrained physically for prolonged periods, and inflicted with burns, wounds and pain to test for healing process effects and remedies, and even killed through neck breaking or asphyxiation. Plenty of animal lives are wasted, considering all the tests failed not to mention other non- experimental factors that affect animals. There is a significant number of animal lives wasted for nothing.
(16 Integral Pros and Cons of Animal Experimentation." ConnectUS. N.p., 19 Aug. 2015. Web. 26 Mar.