Vivisection

A highly 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…

Cadavers: Where are they used? Cadavers have been used for centuries. Mostly for dissection to learn about the human body, but now they take on a lot of different purposes besides dissection. In the early days of trying to learn about the human body, people were not allowed to use cadavers because of religious purposes. They used pigs, primates, and even their own imagination to draw the human body. Eventually, these other animals and imagination were not working. Andreas Vesalius was the first…

Testing cosmetics on animals is a very controversial issue that has grown over the past years. I believe that cosmetic animal testing is wrong and should be banned because it is cruel, inaccurate, not very reliable, and has been proven to be unnecessary. Approximately 200,000 animals will suffer and die every year for cosmetics around the world. We as a whole have all decided that this is not necessary which is why we stopped making testing on animal cosmetics something that had to be done.…

Rabies (from the Latin word “madness”) has been recognized for over four thousand years. The first record of rabies dates back to 2300 B.C. in the Babylonian city of Eshnunna when dog owners were forced to pay a fine for causing the deaths of other people. Since then, many notable writers and philosophers such as Homer, Democritus, and Aristotle have also recorded rabies, mostly through cases of canine rabies (or rabies received through a rabid dog). During the 16th century, Girolamo Fracastoro,…

There are three common ethical concerns expressed regarding the quality of animal lives during animal testing. Animals should lead natural lives through the use of their natural adaptations and capabilities, should function well in terms of health and behavior , and should feel well and be free of pain and fear. Most scientists have “restricted conceptions of animal welfare that relate to only one concern”(Drummond) . We protect animals due to genetic conservation, environmental integrity ,…

Cheryl Ou Ms. Emily English Language and Art Guinea Pigs’ Paradise Do you know how much unnecessary risks that animals have been undertaken for us? Probably not. Animal testing can be counted as one of the most inhumane behaviors in the world. According to the US statistic, millions of animals are killed due to cosmetic testing each year. While some of the experiments conducted on animals today are required by law, in areas such like vaccine, drugs and food developments, but most of them…

In this situation, animal testing is wrong. It may benefit OUR lives, but it doesn’t for the animals being tested on. It is cruel, inhumane, and sometimes isn’t necessary for the product. There are alternatives to this and it can cause much pain and suffering to the animals. In my opinion, animal testing is wrong and here are my reasons why I think so. Animal testing is not ok for so many reasons. The first I have to say is about the hardship and pain to the animals. Animals feel pain along…

Kacie Lee Sawyer P.5 Formal Outline - Sophomore Persuasive 12/08/17 Animal Experimentation Formal Outline I. Introduction "...even if considerable congruence were shown between an animal model and its corresponding human disease, interspecies differences in physiology, behavior, pharmacokinetics, and genetics would significantly limit the reliability of animal studies, even after a substantial investment to improve such studies" (Akhtar 411). Animal experimentation is one of the oldest…

Did you know that there have been very few deaths caused by exotic animals and not many injuries caused either? According to National Geographic, there have been around 540 or more total human injuries caused by exotic animals and around 75 total human deaths caused by exotic animals from 1990 to 2012. Many were caused by stupidity and at times it was due to the person teasing the animal, but some were due to the instinct of the animal and that is something they simply can't stop. Even though…

Animal Experimentation Animal experimentation has been around for many centuries. Humans perform these experiments on all species of animals to find different effect of a product it could have on a human. Three advantages in particular advantages are, it helps scientists gain a better understanding for cures of different diseases, this practice makes a vital advance in medicine, and for the expense of treatments and cures animals should not have rights when it comes to research. Although there…