Animal Experimentation
Animal Experimentation has Alternatives
Every day around the world, animals are fighting for their lives. They are being mutilated and confined to tiny cages so we can use them. They are being burned, blinded, poisoned, and cut up alive just for science. They are electrocuted and strangled just so people can wear makeup. The fact that animal testing can be done in other ways makes this suffering pointless. Scientists should use alternative testing instead of harming animals.
Animals are abused every day in medical research and experimentation. Animals are infected with diseases they wouldn’t normally contract. Tiny mice grow tumors as large as their own bodies so scientists can do research on cancer. Kittens are purposely blinded to test different mixtures of chemicals. Rats are made to suffer seizures, and primates' skulls are cut open and electrodes are implanted in them. Scientists force-feed chemicals to animals, conduct repeated surgeries on them, implant wires in their brains, crush their spines, and much more. After enduring these terrifying, painful procedures, animals are then usually dumped back into a cage without any painkillers. Video footage from inside laboratories shows animals who cower in fear every time someone walks by their cages. Animals in research labs are exposed to substances that can irritate their skin and cause birth defects, cancer and even death. Lab animals often live in small wire cages with little room to move around. Often they see other animals killed right in front of them. After the experiments are finished animals are often put to death.
Not only do animals suffer, but sometimes the experiments don’t work. Animals don’t always react the same way as humans would. “In 2006, scientists in London, England, injected six human volunteers with an experimental treatment for rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis. Though the drug had been tested on mice, rats, rabbits, and monkeys with no obvious problems, the humans had a
Every day around the world, animals are fighting for their lives. They are being mutilated and confined to tiny cages so we can use them. They are being burned, blinded, poisoned, and cut up alive just for science. They are electrocuted and strangled just so people can wear makeup. The fact that animal testing can be done in other ways makes this suffering pointless. Scientists should use alternative testing instead of harming animals.
Animals are abused every day in medical research and experimentation. Animals are infected with diseases they wouldn’t normally contract. Tiny mice grow tumors as large as their own bodies so scientists can do research on cancer. Kittens are purposely blinded to test different mixtures of chemicals. Rats are made to suffer seizures, and primates' skulls are cut open and electrodes are implanted in them. Scientists force-feed chemicals to animals, conduct repeated surgeries on them, implant wires in their brains, crush their spines, and much more. After enduring these terrifying, painful procedures, animals are then usually dumped back into a cage without any painkillers. Video footage from inside laboratories shows animals who cower in fear every time someone walks by their cages. Animals in research labs are exposed to substances that can irritate their skin and cause birth defects, cancer and even death. Lab animals often live in small wire cages with little room to move around. Often they see other animals killed right in front of them. After the experiments are finished animals are often put to death.
Not only do animals suffer, but sometimes the experiments don’t work. Animals don’t always react the same way as humans would. “In 2006, scientists in London, England, injected six human volunteers with an experimental treatment for rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis. Though the drug had been tested on mice, rats, rabbits, and monkeys with no obvious problems, the humans had a