Pain in animals

The True Pain Of Safety Over many continents and through many time periods animal testing has had a strong presence in science. Many places and companies today have discontinued the use of animals due to its, at times, extremely inhumane practice. Though without the use of animals, many important discoveries, procedures, and vaccines wouldn’t have been found. Animal testing, though some has been found to be cruel, is a helpful tool for future discoveries, and should be continued today because of the usefulness in researching for the safety of humankind. According to Dictionary.com animal testing is, testing using a nonhuman subject for the safety sake of humans (The definition). This practices has been used for centuries. They have…

for the Study of Pain (IASP) defines human pain as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage (Loeser, 2008). It is a complex sensory experience that can even be modifiable without the use of a physical harm. While in contrast, there isn’t an animal-based definition of animal pain. A commonly used definition for animals is ‘ an aversive sensory experience caused by actual or potential injury that…

Silent Pain Imagine being treated very poorly, imagine having a nozzle put over your mouth, and imagine being locked in a cold barren cage, where you are forcibly dragged along with a rope around your neck and pushed down. You can either face death or replicate the dreadful steps of cosmetic testing. Many chemicals and products are forced into your airways. While aching with loneliness, you have to wait for the next painful procedure. You do not get the opportunity to say no, get up and leave,…

First, animals do suffer and feel pain. Humans do have a moral compass when it comes to their beloved pets, especially cats and dogs. These special animals are put on pedestals, unlike any others. Pets are definitely animals that can suffer and feel pain. There are laws in place to halt cruelty to such animals, but this is where the line is drawn. Animal below said pedestal are in danger of being exploited by the highly dangerous humans. It is ridiculous to say these animals because they…

Beauty over Pain: Getting Rid of Animal Testing “The question is not, can they reason, nor, can they talk. But, can they suffer?” -Jeremy Bentham. By a show of hands, how many of you would cause your pet intentional pain? Would you prod them, lock them up, or inject them with possibly toxic products? That is what most reactions would be. Well, it turns out you may be using one or more animal tested products a day without knowing. Today’s society will do just about anything to get rid of basic…

to cause pain to animals unless strictly for consumption or vital purposes. I believe it is morally right for animals to have a certain level of protection against animal cruelty. People argue that animals do not have the autonomy that human beings have and there for should not be provided rights. Such people believe that animals were only placed on Earth strictly for human use, that they cannot be rational or experience emotions, and lack autonomy. However these statements are proven untrue.…

expressions of pain in nonhuman specie. This scale was done with an acetic acid constriction test and measures five facial features, adapted from human facial pain expression studies, and scores them with a value where “0” there is no pain present, “1” it is moderately visible and “2” is severe. Finally, each mouse receives a global pain or no-pain mark. The features are individually examined and are the following. “Orbital tightening” is a narrowing of the ocular area with closed eyelid or eye…

While animal testing cannot be completely irradiated, we can prevent pain and suffering of these animals. Companies should regulate the use of alternative methods of testing products and the conditions in which animals are forced to live because it is inhumane and can be harmful to the physical and mental state of the animal. We can create a more comfortable place for these animals to live while they are being tested. Also we should have a more regulated way of giving out pain killers and the…

There is no doubting the fact that animals do not have rights in the conventional sense, or in any other sense for that matter. The reason is because they are not moral agents; they cannot do things out of a sense of right or wrong and cannot reason, as opposed to humans. Without reasoning, they are unable to have rights and therefore, are not responsible. Does that mean humans have the right to treat animals badly? Of course not; but that is for humans to decide, because animals cannot decide…

In “Hooked on a Myth”, Victoria Braithwaite says Are Nonhuman animals Conscious? I agree with her argument that fish feel pain and that fish are conscious, but I feel like she could’ve taken the argument a lot further than what she did. She talks about how fish feel pain and she uses the evidence of how they injected bee venom under the skin of the trout . When the fish started to feel the bee venom their gills beat faster, they rub the affected area on the walls of their tank, and lose…