Why Is Animal Testing Wrong
Since the begin of time, humans believe they have authority over any living organism. As a result of their thought process they also believe that it is okay to test harmful material and chemicals on animals because they are not human beings. Animal testing is wrong and should be illegal because it is cruel to the animal, the tests are not always accurate and there are alternative ways to test products that do not need to be tested on animals.
Testing on animals is cruel. It is cruel because it is subjecting animals, that feel like people do, to extreme pain and torture. As reported by PETA, “U.S. law allows animals to be burned, shocked, poisoned, isolated, starved, drowned, addicted to drugs, and brain-damaged.” The things the U.S. is allowing testing laboratories to do, is cruel and unusual way to torture an animal. The animals are give no pain killers for the pain they endure. If this were done to a human by another human, the person would be considered a psychopath and sentenced to time behind bars. Another site that is against animal testing, NEAVS, stated, “It can include protocols that cause severe suffering, such as long-term social …show more content…
isolation, electric shocks, withholding of food and water, or repeated breeding and separating of infants from mothers.” The “protocols” laboratories follow, cause animals extreme agony and most do not make it through the end of the study. Subjecting animals to this form of torment is wrong. The quotes above both talk about the forms of torture animals go through with no consideration of how it affects the animal. The next time you think animal testing is no big deal, think about how you would feel if that was a person being tortured in these ways.
In the same way animal testing is cruel, the tests themselves are not always accurate in relation to the human kind. It is not accurate because animals do not react the same way as a human would. Declared by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, “No matter how many tests on animals are undertaken, someone will always be the first human to be tested on. Because animal tests are so unreliable, they make those human trials all the more risky.” What this is saying is that animal testing is moreless pointless because there will aways a person that would need to try it first. A medication or makeup product being tested on an animal may react completely different on a person. A statistic stated by Theodora Capaldo in an article for Live Science said, “A 2004 study from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration found that 92 percent of drugs entering clinical trials following animal testing fail to be approved. Of those approved, half are withdrawn or relabeled due to severe or lethal adverse effects not detected during animal tests.” All of the testing and abuse that was conducted on animals in 2004 was merely unuseful and unnecessary. The pain and torture animals go through could have been avoided since only eight percent of the testing actually helped. Is it worth subjecting poor animals to pain, agony and sometimes death if it does not even help scientists with their research? Opponents will argue that testing on animals is necessary for medical advancements.
It is true that medical advancements are needed in today's society but there are other ways to test medication other than using animals to test them. With today's technology, there are numerous alternative ways to test like, computer models and simulations, stem cell and genetic testing methods, and in vitro test methods based on human cells and tissues. Since there are alternative ways, they should be strongly enforced in today’s labs. No animal should have to endure that form of torture. Animals are also not the same as humans and will react differently than a person would. Scientist have come up with numerous solutions to problems over the years, there should be a way they discover ways to test medication without the use of
animals. In conclusion, it is terrible that humans think it is all right to test on animals that feel pain the same way people do. There must be an end to the cruel and sometimes inaccurate data of animal testing when there alternative methods. Therefore, animal testing should be brought to justice and made illegal in all testing laboratories. The next time you wear your favorite makeup think about if an animal had to suffer or even die for your beauty.
Testing on animals is cruel. It is cruel because it is subjecting animals, that feel like people do, to extreme pain and torture. As reported by PETA, “U.S. law allows animals to be burned, shocked, poisoned, isolated, starved, drowned, addicted to drugs, and brain-damaged.” The things the U.S. is allowing testing laboratories to do, is cruel and unusual way to torture an animal. The animals are give no pain killers for the pain they endure. If this were done to a human by another human, the person would be considered a psychopath and sentenced to time behind bars. Another site that is against animal testing, NEAVS, stated, “It can include protocols that cause severe suffering, such as long-term social …show more content…
isolation, electric shocks, withholding of food and water, or repeated breeding and separating of infants from mothers.” The “protocols” laboratories follow, cause animals extreme agony and most do not make it through the end of the study. Subjecting animals to this form of torment is wrong. The quotes above both talk about the forms of torture animals go through with no consideration of how it affects the animal. The next time you think animal testing is no big deal, think about how you would feel if that was a person being tortured in these ways.
In the same way animal testing is cruel, the tests themselves are not always accurate in relation to the human kind. It is not accurate because animals do not react the same way as a human would. Declared by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, “No matter how many tests on animals are undertaken, someone will always be the first human to be tested on. Because animal tests are so unreliable, they make those human trials all the more risky.” What this is saying is that animal testing is moreless pointless because there will aways a person that would need to try it first. A medication or makeup product being tested on an animal may react completely different on a person. A statistic stated by Theodora Capaldo in an article for Live Science said, “A 2004 study from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration found that 92 percent of drugs entering clinical trials following animal testing fail to be approved. Of those approved, half are withdrawn or relabeled due to severe or lethal adverse effects not detected during animal tests.” All of the testing and abuse that was conducted on animals in 2004 was merely unuseful and unnecessary. The pain and torture animals go through could have been avoided since only eight percent of the testing actually helped. Is it worth subjecting poor animals to pain, agony and sometimes death if it does not even help scientists with their research? Opponents will argue that testing on animals is necessary for medical advancements.
It is true that medical advancements are needed in today's society but there are other ways to test medication other than using animals to test them. With today's technology, there are numerous alternative ways to test like, computer models and simulations, stem cell and genetic testing methods, and in vitro test methods based on human cells and tissues. Since there are alternative ways, they should be strongly enforced in today’s labs. No animal should have to endure that form of torture. Animals are also not the same as humans and will react differently than a person would. Scientist have come up with numerous solutions to problems over the years, there should be a way they discover ways to test medication without the use of
animals. In conclusion, it is terrible that humans think it is all right to test on animals that feel pain the same way people do. There must be an end to the cruel and sometimes inaccurate data of animal testing when there alternative methods. Therefore, animal testing should be brought to justice and made illegal in all testing laboratories. The next time you wear your favorite makeup think about if an animal had to suffer or even die for your beauty.