Every day we torture and kill thousands of animals for our own heartless wants. Animal Testing has been a highly debated and ongoing topic for many years. The dangers of using animals to test products being made for human uses is a high risk. Approximately 225 million animals are used for testing every year. Billions have been killed in the process. ("Questions and Answers About Biomedical Research.”) How can this be allowed? Isn’t it cruel to use animals to…
ANIMAL TESTING In today’s society, many people have debated over the idea of vivisection otherwise known as animal testing. This controversial topic questions whether people should make animals submit for the greater good of humanity or to not be utilized as animal test subjects. It’s has been in debate since the seventieth century. The majority of states in the past several years have passed laws regarding animal testing; saying it should be more humanized. Many people would think animal…
way that animals are treated. The discussion revolves around whether or not animals should have stricter laws protecting their rights. In today’s society, people feel that animals deserve the same rights as humans. I believe that animals should be protected more from the horrors of factory farms, entertainment, and testing labs. To do this animal welfare laws need to be revised so they set stricter standards that regulate how animals are treated and housed. The Difference Between Animal Rights…
global warming, extinction of animal species, wildlife conservation, and animal experimentation. These issues are hard to notice within our daily life. One big problem that has started many arguments in the world is the problem of animal testing. This is because it is related to ethics of animal life and their welfare in the laboratory system. According to the US department of Agriculture Animal (USDA) and Plant and Animal Health Inspection Service (APHIS), 834,453 animals are used for…
Homo sapiens. Today other animals are still not considered adequately like us for the bulk of people to handle these animals as our acquaintances under the Golden Rule. Those who assert that only humans have souls are confronted with a theological dilemma: it would call for a cruel God to create beings with the ability to feel pain and the desire to live, if these animals intention was to endure at the hands of humans. While it is true that some animals kill other animals…
due to animal testing. Most people are under the misconception that animal experiments enhance human cures due to the media, experimenters, and universities which exaggerate animals’ potential and the role they have played in past medical advancements. Researching thoroughly on websites, books, articles and organizations, I will prove the common misconception that animals are needed for human advancement to be incorrect. Animal testing is proven to hurt humans directly and misleading animal…
Approaches to using animals as a experimental object vary from person to person.Since animal testing is a contraversial issue, it generates many debates between scientist and animal right activists. Scientists believe that animal testing is only way to discover cures and treatments in order to enhance the health of ill people. Because there is no equal alternative to testing on a living, whole-body system. On the contrary, animal right activist regard animal testing as a cruel and inhumane…
companies use animals to test products they are about to release, putting the lives of many animals in jeopardy. Millions of animals are forced into painful methods of testing in laboratories that result in physical and psychological damage to the subjects. Animal testing must end and in its place should be methods that are less harmful and more healthy. Although animal testing has led to new cures in the medical industry, the practice is cruel and inhumane with many of the animals being…
Should Animals Be Used for Scientific or Commercial Testing? Introduction: An estimated twenty six million animals are used every year in the United States for scientific and commercial testing. Animals should not be used for scientific or commercial testing because animal testing is cruel and inhumane, animals make poor test subjects, and animals’ rights are violated. I. Animals should be used for scientific or commercial testing. A.Animal testing has contributed to many life saving cures…
controversial argument of utilizing animals in the testing and development of medical research has left scientists at an impasse on the ethics behind the operations. Approximately 115 animals are used each year in the United States for both scientific and commercial testing. Every 1.7 seconds one animal is killed, which adds up to 28,000 a day. These animals become experimental subjects to be used for dangerous procedures, so humans don’t have to do it. Animals are used to test the safety of…