Animal Testing Argument

. While animal testing has led to many scientific breakthroughs in the treatments of diseases and illnesses, researchers should consider the animals’ interests and feelings. There should be more readily available alternatives to live animal testing because animals feel pain and have emotions that are no different than humans. Animals are left disfigured, scarred, sick or even die from these strenuous experiments.
Animals have been used throughout history for biomedical research. Greek physicians and scientists, such as Aristotle and Erasistratus, performed experiments on living animals. It is estimated that each year over 100 million animals in the United States are utilized for animal testing. (HSUS) Animals are exploited to test scientific
There are many people that contest the utilization of animals for animal testing even though it is not an elementary concept. They present arguments that all animal research and testing should come to an end because it is wrong to treat animals like they are tools to obtain knowledge. They argue that alternative methods should be developed to end the practice of animal testing. An important piece of the open debate over every living creature's common sense entitlement fixates on the ethical position of a creature. The majority agree that animals have some ethical position and that is the reason it is wrong to mistreat pets or unnecessarily hurt different creatures. This alone speaks to a movement from a past view where creatures had no ethical position and treating a creature was more about keeping up human norms of nobility than honoring any fundamental freedoms of the creature. Today, the question has changed from whether creatures have a moral position to what rights accompany that position. Looking at this point of view, animals should have the same right as a human being, to live a free life without pain and suffering.
While animal testing has made important breakthroughs in medications and the treatment of diseases, there need to be bigger steps taken to find new scientific ways to do these tests without the expense of animals. If animal testing is to continue, there need to be stricter guidelines given to ensure the animals are not harmed in any way. These guidelines must be enforced as well. The quality of life that these animals endure is unacceptable and they need to have at the very least more social interaction, better living quarters, and the basic necessities of life. Animal testing and research are becoming obsolete and irrelevant in my opinion and we need and should do better for all the earth’s