Animal testing

Animal Testing in the United States Every day animals are being used for scientific research either leaving them mutated or dead. Imagine your dog being taken into the lab for various cruel experiments that lasts for weeks. After being tested on multiple times your dog can’t take it anymore and ends up dying. Does that seem right for any animal to go through pain, and potentially risk their lives for research? “Each year in the United States an estimated 20-70 million animals—from cats, dogs,…

movie, but the actual life of ill-fated animals that were captured or bred for the use of animal testing. These animals are poke, prodded, and tortured for the sake of science to better improve man kind, but is science actually worth the never-ending suffering…

welfare of animals believe that the question about tests on animals, “is not, ‘Can they reason?’ nor, ‘Can they talk?’ but, ‘Can they suffer?’” (Bentham). Animals do suffer and do feel pain; even though they may not express it into words humans can understand, if it is wrong to exact pain on a human beings, then it is just as wrong to do so on an animal. Although some believe that animal testing is accessible and inexpensive, intentionally harming animals is unethical…

Animal research or animal testing “refers to the use of animals in experiments within academic research or commercial establishments,” (Swami 269). While the topic of animal testing has a tendency to brew several disputes with its controversial properties, it is no doubt an intriguing one. Examining the positives and negatives of animal examination would certainly cause one to question whether or not animal testing should be permitted, and if it reflects practices of animal abuse. Although there…

continue medical testing on animals? Over one hundred million animals are burned, crippled and abused in laboratories each year (“11 facts about animal testing” Wed). Most of the animals being tested have little to no legal protection, laboratories where the animal testing takes place do not follow the few rights that animals do have. These animals in the labs experience mental and physical cruelty for research that is not going to benefit them in any way later on. The animals being…

All throughout history animals have been used in countless experiments that were too dangerous for humans to test. These methods of testing today result in the deaths of millions of innocent animals every year. The most common types of testing are clinical, scientific, and cosmetic. With the combination of all types of testing, animals every single day are put through excruciating pain and have to experience horrors that are utterly flabbergasting. Fortunately, with rising technology there are…

Tens of thousands of animals are tested on for the cosmetic industry every year. (Pro-Con) However, this cannot be accurate due to some animals not being protected -therefore unaccounted for in these numbers- by law: “95% of animals used in experiments are not protected by the federal Animal Welfare Act (AWA)” (Hastings Center) . The reasons vary for this; one of the most common excuses is for the benefit of humans who should be kept safe from faulty products. Such products range from medical to…

only intentions are to dissect you until you are nothing. While animal testing may help some patients with cancer and other illnesses, many ads make false claims about the effectiveness of it; ultimately justifying and prolonging the merciless acts upon myriad of innocent animals. Such an ad stood out to me while scrolling on my Pinterest feed. It was published in 2009 by the Animal Research Development Organization. Animal testing may have helped the little boy, Caleb, in the ad with cancer,…

Animal testing has been around for a long time with some unpleasant history. With the expertise in technology not being as advanced and innovative as it is today with using other alternative methods, scientists had tested their theories on animals. Animals used in research experiments go back to the early Greek physician scientists such as Aristotle, Erasistratus and Galen. Galen practiced in Rome, where he conducted animal experiments to develop the understanding of anatomy, physiology,…

Animal Testing Over 100 million animals are brutally killed by cosmetic or medical experiments every year. Rats, rabbits dogs, cats, mice, and many other animals have chemicals purposely rubbed in their eyes or on their skin just to see if a product is safe to use on humans. So many animals are test subjects in the United States each year for products that aren’t even necessary. Sure, lots of women (and men) like wearing makeup, but it is not an absolute necessity. Only 2% of human diseases…