The Negative Consequences Of Animal Testing

As of “right now, millions of mice, rats, rabbits, primates [monkeys], cats, dogs, and other animals are locked inside barren cages in laboratories across the country.” They suffer in agony, are being infused with misery, and long to be uncaged. Instead, they wait with their anxiety filled thoughts of what expect in the operating room (“Animal’s Used”). Animal experimentation (or vivisection) is any “scientific experiment or test in which a live animal is forced to undergo something that is likely to cause them pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm” (“What is”). According to Christopher Lawrence, animal dissection has been first traced back to the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates (c.460–375 BC), but Lawrence also states that the greatest …show more content…
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) did a study on the positive outcomes of tests, roughly “ninety-two percent of drugs tested fail to meet the standards for human use,” basically what this means is most drugs are proved safe for animals, but fail in human clinical trials (“Animal Testing”). That is just a study in 2016, each year the percent increases so do the number of animals who are tested and the ones that die; at this rate, nothing is improving. The testing of beauty products on animals have a vast way of wasting lives due to one particular test. The major cost of these tests is they are causing more human deaths and saving fewer lives. A research study was done on this topic and the worst case of this point is “Vioxx” which killed more than 60.000 plus humans during 2003-2004, this drug was entirely deemed safe in animal testing, but on the markets was another story (“It’s Tax”). The Science Museum of the United Kingdom states that during the 1950’s a “safe” sleeping drug was given to pregnant women, this resulted in “10,000 babies to be born with severe deformities,” prior to this, the drug was harmless to pregnant animals and newborns (qt, in “Should Animals”). Most likely, millions of animals were killed during the experiments of these “safe” drugs. Human deaths, including animal deaths, were all pointless. When certain companies test eye products (mascara, eyeliner, eyeshadow etc.), the makeup goes through the “Draize test,” now, rabbits are the prime subjects during these procedures, the “product… is placed in the eyes of the animal… then the animal is monitored for damage… in the tissues [of]... the eye” (Dunnuck). This procedure is extremely painful as the animal’s “eyelids [are] held open by clips, sometimes for multiple days, so