Animal Testing Should Be Banned
Reasons Why Animal Testing Should be Banned
The activity of animal testing is of cruelty and sometimes unscientific. Money spent on animal experimentation is wasted in many cases; due to inability in obtaining accurate results, and all this at the cost of the animals' well-being. Here are a few arguments against animal testing that support the thought of banning this activity.
Cruel Practices
Animals are a soft target for human beings; it is however, not fair to take undue advantage of their helplessness. It should be understood that a monkey or a mouse would experience the same amount of pain that human beings would do, on being made to undergo certain painful procedures. Animals used for testing are often deprived of food, water and sleep. In many cases they are treated cruelly. For example, dogs are locked in gas chambers to test whether a particular insecticide is safe for inhalation by human beings. Most often, anesthesia is not used at the time of testing. A callous attitude towards the safety of animals is one of the main reasons for not using anesthesia when experimenting on animals. Another reason for avoiding the use of anesthesia is the claim that test results get altered on doing so. But imagine being operated on, without anesthesia or being jammed in a cell just because someone else wants to know how your body reacts to that particular environment. And you will realize what pain those innocent animals must be undergoing when such experiments are conducted on them.
Fast Fact: Countries like New Zealand and Netherlands have banned the use of great apes and other primates for the purpose of testing.
Inaccurate Results
The results obtained from animal testing are used to check whether a particular medicine or cosmetic would have any side-effects on human beings. The body systems of animals are different from those of human beings. Aspirin is widely used for the treatment of fever, pain, inflammation, etc. in human beings. However, this very
The activity of animal testing is of cruelty and sometimes unscientific. Money spent on animal experimentation is wasted in many cases; due to inability in obtaining accurate results, and all this at the cost of the animals' well-being. Here are a few arguments against animal testing that support the thought of banning this activity.
Cruel Practices
Animals are a soft target for human beings; it is however, not fair to take undue advantage of their helplessness. It should be understood that a monkey or a mouse would experience the same amount of pain that human beings would do, on being made to undergo certain painful procedures. Animals used for testing are often deprived of food, water and sleep. In many cases they are treated cruelly. For example, dogs are locked in gas chambers to test whether a particular insecticide is safe for inhalation by human beings. Most often, anesthesia is not used at the time of testing. A callous attitude towards the safety of animals is one of the main reasons for not using anesthesia when experimenting on animals. Another reason for avoiding the use of anesthesia is the claim that test results get altered on doing so. But imagine being operated on, without anesthesia or being jammed in a cell just because someone else wants to know how your body reacts to that particular environment. And you will realize what pain those innocent animals must be undergoing when such experiments are conducted on them.
Fast Fact: Countries like New Zealand and Netherlands have banned the use of great apes and other primates for the purpose of testing.
Inaccurate Results
The results obtained from animal testing are used to check whether a particular medicine or cosmetic would have any side-effects on human beings. The body systems of animals are different from those of human beings. Aspirin is widely used for the treatment of fever, pain, inflammation, etc. in human beings. However, this very