Unethical Animal Testing

Every year millions of animals are used in more than 1,000 laboratory experiments across the country. The facilities imprison millions of animals and exhaust millions of dollars to cause pain and suffering that are irrelevant to the diagnosis of the human well-being. Universities, hospitals, contract laboratories, pharmaceutical companies, and government agencies contribute to unethical animal testing. The cruel living conditions and senseless torture of these animals goes unnoticed by the majority of worldwide citizens. It is important that we bring this heinous practice to the attention of those who are unaware of these unethical procedures. Every year in Australia thousands of animals are killed in school, college, and university courses.
Rats, dogs, pigs, chickens, frogs, and toads are amongst those most commonly used. Throughout these experiments, animals are dissected (cut apart) while others are vivisected (cut apart while still alive). The animals used in these experiments are tortured and possibly subjected to death. These procedures are outdated and devalue the life of animals. Animal dissection is not the best way to educate human society. In addition to dissection, animals are being tortured in classroom experiments. Millions of live mice, rabbits, rats, turtles, and other animals are killed in university-level biology and psychology demonstrations. Turtles are bashed on the head with hammers and holes are drilled into their shells so classroom students can view and manipulate the heart rate. Professors and students surgically induce brain damage, trial drug addictions, starve and perform harmful procedures to these animals. Millions of animals are tormented and killed every day. In Virginia Beach, live goats were mutilated and killed during a barbaric course for the U.S. coast guards. The goats were shot, stabbed, mutilated, and killed. The instructors broke and cut off the legs of goat’s while they were still alive. Several of the goats started to wake up due to improper anesthesia dosage. Goats were shot in the face with pistols and hacked apart with axes. Every year the military affects over 10,000 animals which are nothing like real battlefield situations and do not help soldiers save lives. An estimated 100,000 to 200,000 animals suffer for cosmetics worldwide.
The methods of testing include the draize, acute toxicity, skin irritation, skin sensitization, and dermal penetration. The draize test is a method that can cause irritation to the skin and/or eyes. The acute toxicity test is done to determine danger of exposure to a chemical by mouth, skin, or inflammation. The draize test can also cause animal convulsions, loss of motor function, and seizures. The dermal penetration test is the injection of chemicals into the bloodstream to understand skin absorption. Over the years many places around the world have prohibited testing cosmetics on animals. Experiments on animals are cruel and expensive. New scientists are developing methods that replace animals. The tests use human cells and tissue (known as in-vitro methods), computer modeling techniques (known as in-silico methods), and studies with human volunteers. The new experiments take less time and money to complete. The primary use of in-vitro tests is to detect specific toxic properties of drugs and/or chemicals. The studies normally take place in labware such as test tubes, flasks, petri dishes and microtiter plates. Studies use components of organisms that have been isolated to get a more detailed and convenient analysis that can be done with whole organisms. Results obtained from in-vitro tests may not be 100%
accurate. In-silico testing is used in methods to predict toxic outcomes of humans and the environment. In-silico medicine is most commonly known for the modeling, simulation, and visualization of biological and medical processes by simulating real process in a virtual environment. This method can detect an early prediction of success of a compound for a medicinal purpose and find adverse effects early in the process.
The people who perform these experiments feel animals are a vital part in every medical breakthrough over the last decade. Humans and mice share 95% of the same genes making them an effective model for the human body. Animals suffer from similar diseases to humans including cancers, TB, flu, and asthma. Testing on animals is wrong as they have no voice or ability to make decisions.
Every year millions of animals suffer and/or die through testing they should have never been in relation with. In the future, we the people need to portray that this is not an appropriate option. Animal testing is unethical and should be forbidden. Animals deserve a voice and the gift of life; such as all citizen around the world.