Animal Testing Final Draft
5B EFSTerm 1/2012Topic: Animal testingIssue: Should animal testing be banned?Bùi Phi Hoàng.Teachers: Mark & Graham. |
Introduction
Annually, more than 100.000 animals are used for test product’s security included household cleaners, cosmetics and pharmaceutical products (PETA Fact Sheet). For many years, the application of animals has been considered to be a normal strategy in three primary fields: biomedical research, education and product safety evaluation. In 2009, it was estimated that approximately, 3.6 million animals were used for testing and were killed after experiments; about 2.7 million of them were not administered with anesthesia. Animal welfare groups are pressuring world governments to take steps to reduce their reliance on animal experiments and to inflict strict regulations on animal testing (Government-Required Animal Testing: Overview).
Around the world, animals are applied to test a huge variety of products ranging from shampoo to new cancer and HIV drugs. According to FDA (The U.S Food and Drug Administration), before being used by humans, every medicines need to go through a preclinical testing phrase which includes animal experiments (Sherre Stachura, 2008). Recently, questions about the moral around testing on living animals have been increased. As a result, government agencies are taking steps and several severe regulations have been published to ensure that such research is accomplished as humanely and ethically as possible(Testing on Animals: A Patient’s Perspective). A lot of argumentation and debates have been happened to looking for acceptance of such experiments. As there are many effective and accuracy alternative methods, animal testing should be banned; animals have the right to be free and live their own life.
Animals have the right.
Arguments against animal testing are based on the grounds of morality, the necessity or the validity of those experiments, whether the authority to accomplish such tests is granted
Introduction
Annually, more than 100.000 animals are used for test product’s security included household cleaners, cosmetics and pharmaceutical products (PETA Fact Sheet). For many years, the application of animals has been considered to be a normal strategy in three primary fields: biomedical research, education and product safety evaluation. In 2009, it was estimated that approximately, 3.6 million animals were used for testing and were killed after experiments; about 2.7 million of them were not administered with anesthesia. Animal welfare groups are pressuring world governments to take steps to reduce their reliance on animal experiments and to inflict strict regulations on animal testing (Government-Required Animal Testing: Overview).
Around the world, animals are applied to test a huge variety of products ranging from shampoo to new cancer and HIV drugs. According to FDA (The U.S Food and Drug Administration), before being used by humans, every medicines need to go through a preclinical testing phrase which includes animal experiments (Sherre Stachura, 2008). Recently, questions about the moral around testing on living animals have been increased. As a result, government agencies are taking steps and several severe regulations have been published to ensure that such research is accomplished as humanely and ethically as possible(Testing on Animals: A Patient’s Perspective). A lot of argumentation and debates have been happened to looking for acceptance of such experiments. As there are many effective and accuracy alternative methods, animal testing should be banned; animals have the right to be free and live their own life.
Animals have the right.
Arguments against animal testing are based on the grounds of morality, the necessity or the validity of those experiments, whether the authority to accomplish such tests is granted
References: 11. Marlene Habib, 1990, ‘Beauty and the beast; Buyer push cosmetics industry to reduce animal testing’, The Gazette, p.2. 12 13. Karley Tabak, 2001, ‘Animal testing: Is it really necessary?’, Expositor, p.2&3.