Ill Effects of Animal Testing Essay

history animals have been used for research. In 258 BC, a Greek physician and scientist named Aristotle did experiments on living animals. The experiments that Aristotle did was never for medical research. Instead it was to gain knowledge about animals. However in 199 AD another Greek physician named Galen did animal experiments, but only to advance his understanding for science. Also, during the twelfth century there was an Arab physician named Zuhr that did animal experiments for testing…

protect animals. In North Carolina there is a law that say if any person should maliciously kill or caused a animal to be killed intentionally will be charged with a felon. Laws like this are put in place to help animals be protected against abusers.Of course sometimes laws like this do not convince or persuade abusers to stop the crimes. Abuse in different Communities Even though animal abuse happens in many communities, different animals are abused in different ones. In ghettos animal abuse…

Supposedly animals kill their young because they are sick, for genes or can't find food. It is shown that when the baby is deformed or sick the mother will often times eat her child for nutritional values. In this case this is what happened at the Smithsonian National Zoo when Khali, a sloth bear, soon after giving birth devoured her cubs. Apparently the birth was monitored via zoo staff and they cheered when the first little cub cam out into the world but 20 min later, still in labor, she bent…

2.8.3.2. Killed vaccines The advantage of killed vaccine is more safety as a result of inactivation of live viral strains. Therefore, it can be administrated to pregnant animals. There are many disadvantages of killed BVDV vaccines, it is more expensive due to large amounts of virus are required for preparation of each dose and adjuvant should be added to the vaccine. In addition, the duration of immunity is shorter and there are requirement for injection two doses to initiate protection (Fulton…

Signs of dog arthritis vary greatly. First, it is important to be able to recognize and understand the many different signs of arthritis. Some may be more obvious than others. Most owners feel that if their dog is not showing signs of pain, then their dog is not in pain. Not so! Dogs are very good at masking their pain. Very rarely are they vocal like humans. They will exhibit other ways of showing their pain. If you are concerned that your dog may have arthritis, it is important to consult…

Should it Be Illegal To Euthanize Animals In Shelters? Millions of animals in shelters are put down every year and the blame is only to put on us, the humans. Animals end up in kill shelters because of us. A lot of the time theses animals are euthanized because of what the shelters do to them. They are also killed for the most unbelievable reasons, and sometimes the animals suffer when being euthanized. To most animals, shelters are paradise because they are not lonely and abandoned in the…

Should Human Products be Tested on Animals? “The question is not, can they reason? nor, can they talk? but, can they suffer?”(qtd. in Should). Millions of animals endure human product testing. Even though they are not as advanced as humans they can still feel and suffer. Common human products are tested on them in different test dealing with toxicity. These tests are unnecessary, costly, and don’t predict reliable results but the truth is ignored. Animals are very different than humans and the…

Animal Testing “Ninety-two percent of experimental drugs that are safe and effective on animals fail in human clinical trials because they don’t work or are dangerous” (“Animal Experimentation Facts”). This statistic shows animal testing is too inaccurate to be used and animals are not the same as humans. Even though animals are much different than humans, there are people who think testing drugs on the animals the right thing. When a scientist is testing a new drug they will inject the animals;…

more Saving The experimentation on animals for research is inhumane and should be put to and end. Animal experimentation is a serious problem that isn 't brought up very often, but undoubtedly you use something every day that an animal was tortured because of. Each year over 100 million animals are killed due to experimentation (U.S. Department of Agriculture 2014). The Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics concludes that the practice of experimenting on animals is “unthinkable” and that “In terms…

Animal Research is, has always been, and will most likely continue to be a delicate subject. The use of animals in research ranges from cosmetics to medical and wherever there are animals being tests there are groups of people arguing the morality and ethics of the testing being done. Excluding cosmetics and the like for now (that’s a different argument), the use of animal research in neuroscience is absolutely necessary and though it is a sensitive issue, there are ways to make it more…