Vivisection

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,…

Problems with Animal Experimentation Nearly 26 million animals around the world are used every year for scientific experimentation. Numerous procedures are performed on animals to test the safety of certain products that are intended for humans. Several of these procedures can cause the animal pain and suffering. The Animal Welfare Act, also known as AWA, regulates animal testing in the United States. The AWA describes an animal as "any live or dead dog, cat, monkey, guinea pig, hamster, rabbit…

These experiments were said to be in attempts to cure Syphilis within the participants, or potential contraction of Syphilis. As these men were chosen, one little detail was left out of the invitation. As these doctors and scientists were not simply trying to cure the disease, but rather test a theory on how its effects differ between white and african american individuals. At one point one doctor explaining that there was more interest in the men after death rather than during life. Once more,…

Imagine if you were kept prisoner in a facility where you couldn’t control what and when you ate, when the lights went on or off, and had zero control over how you lived your life. Imagine living your life locked up in prison for not committing any crime or doing anything wrong. Isolation, starvation, deprivation, this is how life is for animals locked up in lab facilities being tested for things as simple as cosmetics to as complex cures for diseases. The United States Government allows animals…

Over the years medical science has grown through remarkable research. The tremendous progress that we obtain remains directly correlated with the work performed in research laboratories. Unfortunately, the testing of numerous experimental medications and chemicals need to be performed on a variety of living animals. I not setting aside the fact that these animals experience actual painful disease while researchers complete laboratory experiments. After the viruses are introduced into the…

Windex, Lipstick, Tissues, When you pick these items up from the store, have you ever wondered what went into producing them? Sometimes testing is required by law to meet legal standards, but some of them aren’t needed and put animals in harm for no reason. Even if they are required, animals are still victims of possibly irreversible damage and harm. The Animal Welfare Act specifically excludes rats, mice, birds and most cold-blooded animals, allowing them to be burned, poisoned,…

Animal Testing Each year it is estimated that over 100 million animals are tested on for scientific purposes around the world. The debate of whether or not scientists should use animals for experimentation has been a big problem for many years. Scientists use the animals to test out the safety and efficacy of products. Animal testing has gotten to be a big problem and it needs to be stopped immediately because it is not fair to the animals. Animal testing is cruel and unfair to the animals and…

experiment (Akhtar). There is no reason for the tax money U.S residents pay every year to go towards a cause that many are against for. Also not only financially are humans being harmed, but also humans are harmed health wise. Many tests that were done on rodents that supposedly prevented diabetes were not done correctly and the results always came out that the treatment was successful (Akhtar). Nevertheless, when tested on a human the results came back inconclusive and the human trial was a…

The thought of using animals in research usually makes me sick. When I hear about using animals in research, my mind immediately goes to the use of animals in cosmetic research. I start to picture poor little bunny rabbits missing hair and having swollen faces with red eyes. I know that cosmetic research is not the only research using live animals. Now that I have learned more about using rats in scientific research, I have mixed feelings about it. Something inside of me tells me that using…

INTRODUCTION: Toxicity test evaluates the deleterious effects of chemicals on humans, animals, plants, environment following single (acute) or repeated (long term) exposure (Arwa and Vladimir, 2016). Safety evaluation of chemicals is very important for their development and approval for human uses (Gallagher, 2003; Peers et al., 2012). In risks assessment, there is no doubt that the best test species for humans are humans since accurate extrapolation of animal data directly to humans cannot be…