Why We Shouldn T Animal Testing Be Banned
Many people believe that animal testing should be banned, but should it really be banned? There are many pros and cons to animal testing, including medical breakthroughs and animals being put through pain and suffering. This debate will be discussing all of the pros and cons, to come to a final conclusion to determine whether animal testing should or should not be banned.
Animal experimenters experiment on animals because they believe the animals will react to products just like a human. There are millions of animals being used for testing each year. These animals are bred, caged and locked up in laboratories where they are just waiting to be used for an experiment. Animals are used to develop medical treatments, cosmetic products and make up, the animals are used to determine whether a product is toxic to skin or organs, the animals are also used to test the safety of products. Animal testing has been practiced since 500 …show more content…
BC. 85% of animal experiments are conducted on rats and mice and humans are completely different from rats and mice, but the other 15% is conducted on chimpanzees even though chimps share 98.4% of our DNA, but it is the 1.6% of difference in our their DNA that makes a difference in the way we react to certain things.
People who are for animal testing have stated, nearly every medical breakthrough in the last 100 years, has been a direct result of research using animal testing. Animals are appropriate research subjects because they have similar attributes to a human, in many different ways. People and animals all have the same set of organs, which function in essentially the same way with the help of bloodstreams and central nervous systems.
At least 3 different human viruses including HIV/aids, Hepatitis B, and common Malaria. The director of the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Centre’s animal research facility stated, “We wouldn’t have a vaccine for hepatitis B, without chimpanzees. Since animals and humans are so biologically similar, they are vulnerable to many of the same illnesses, including heart disease, cancer and diabetes. If the vaccines weren’t tested on animals, millions of animals would have died from rabies, distemper, feline leukaemia and infectious hepatitis viruses. Animal testing has also saved some endangered species, such as the black-footed ferret, the California condor and the tamarins of Brazil.
Some people believe that medical breakthroughs involving animal research would have been achieved without animal testing, if governments put enough money and resources into animal free testing, and the same outcomes would have been found. The animals suffer physically and psychologically. This means they deserve to be respected and protected from harm as we would for humans. Some of these animals, not all of them, go through a lot of pain and stress during the experimental procedure, as a result of the environment they are being kept in. Every year in laboratories around the world, scientist poison, torture and kill millions of defenceless animals, in the name of safety but there isn’t anything safe about animal testing. Religious traditions tell us to be merciful to animals, so we shouldn’t cause them pain and suffering by experimenting on them.
Drug testing on animals isn’t necessarily safe for humans, even when it has passed an animal testing stage. 94 percent of drug tests that have passed animal testing have fail in human clinical trials. Over 100 stroke drugs which were affective in animal testing, have failed in the human clinical trials. 85 HIV vaccines have also failed in human clinical trials, after working on non-human primates.
An example of medicine not working after passing an animal test, is the 1950s sleeping pill thalidomide. Since the pill didn’t work for humans, it caused around ten thousand babies to be born with serious deformities. When the pill was tested on animals such as mice, rats and guinea pigs they didn’t result in birth defects, unless the animal was admitted a high doses. The pill was passed as safe, which caused all those baby defects, as the testing wasn’t correct.
Testing products on animals doesn’t happen in Australia, but it doesn’t stop big companies like Colgate, Palmolive and L’Oréal from torturing animals in other countries, before sending their products here for us to buy.
These companies spend thousands of dollars for these animals to be poisoned, burnt and killed.
Some of the chemicals tested on the animals are cosmetics, cleaning products, drugs, pesticides and foods. These chemicals can cause painful eye and skin reactions, but the scientists won’t give the animals any pain relief. Scientists don’t give the animal’s pain relief, as they fear the pain relief will affect the outcome of the chemicals being tested.
What most people don’t know is, when they donate to a medical charity it’s assisting to fund research involving animal testing and with this support, it has become a multi-billion dollar industry. Some schools and universities still use animals in practical lessons, which has nothing to do with most of the students’ career path, so the animals are been experimented on for no good
reason.
If you don’t agree with animal testing, there are many things you can do. You can help out by not purchasing products that say ‘tested on animals’, encourage your family and friends to do the same, always read cosmetics and toiletries to see if it has been tested on animals, if you want to donate to charity make sure it doesn’t support animal research and if you are at school or university and animals are being used in class, tell your teacher you don’t want to take part in the lesson.
In conclusion, animal testing does have its positives and negatives. We have achieved many medical breakthroughs and made sure products were safe, by using animal testing. But on the other hand, millions of animals have been caused pain, suffering and even death. I believe animal testing should be banned, since we wouldn’t put humans through the same tests as animals. It’s not fair for the animals to go through all the pain and suffering, for the safety of products. We can still achieve safe products and medical breakthroughs, without animal testing, if more people would help out.
Animal experimenters experiment on animals because they believe the animals will react to products just like a human. There are millions of animals being used for testing each year. These animals are bred, caged and locked up in laboratories where they are just waiting to be used for an experiment. Animals are used to develop medical treatments, cosmetic products and make up, the animals are used to determine whether a product is toxic to skin or organs, the animals are also used to test the safety of products. Animal testing has been practiced since 500 …show more content…
BC. 85% of animal experiments are conducted on rats and mice and humans are completely different from rats and mice, but the other 15% is conducted on chimpanzees even though chimps share 98.4% of our DNA, but it is the 1.6% of difference in our their DNA that makes a difference in the way we react to certain things.
People who are for animal testing have stated, nearly every medical breakthrough in the last 100 years, has been a direct result of research using animal testing. Animals are appropriate research subjects because they have similar attributes to a human, in many different ways. People and animals all have the same set of organs, which function in essentially the same way with the help of bloodstreams and central nervous systems.
At least 3 different human viruses including HIV/aids, Hepatitis B, and common Malaria. The director of the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Centre’s animal research facility stated, “We wouldn’t have a vaccine for hepatitis B, without chimpanzees. Since animals and humans are so biologically similar, they are vulnerable to many of the same illnesses, including heart disease, cancer and diabetes. If the vaccines weren’t tested on animals, millions of animals would have died from rabies, distemper, feline leukaemia and infectious hepatitis viruses. Animal testing has also saved some endangered species, such as the black-footed ferret, the California condor and the tamarins of Brazil.
Some people believe that medical breakthroughs involving animal research would have been achieved without animal testing, if governments put enough money and resources into animal free testing, and the same outcomes would have been found. The animals suffer physically and psychologically. This means they deserve to be respected and protected from harm as we would for humans. Some of these animals, not all of them, go through a lot of pain and stress during the experimental procedure, as a result of the environment they are being kept in. Every year in laboratories around the world, scientist poison, torture and kill millions of defenceless animals, in the name of safety but there isn’t anything safe about animal testing. Religious traditions tell us to be merciful to animals, so we shouldn’t cause them pain and suffering by experimenting on them.
Drug testing on animals isn’t necessarily safe for humans, even when it has passed an animal testing stage. 94 percent of drug tests that have passed animal testing have fail in human clinical trials. Over 100 stroke drugs which were affective in animal testing, have failed in the human clinical trials. 85 HIV vaccines have also failed in human clinical trials, after working on non-human primates.
An example of medicine not working after passing an animal test, is the 1950s sleeping pill thalidomide. Since the pill didn’t work for humans, it caused around ten thousand babies to be born with serious deformities. When the pill was tested on animals such as mice, rats and guinea pigs they didn’t result in birth defects, unless the animal was admitted a high doses. The pill was passed as safe, which caused all those baby defects, as the testing wasn’t correct.
Testing products on animals doesn’t happen in Australia, but it doesn’t stop big companies like Colgate, Palmolive and L’Oréal from torturing animals in other countries, before sending their products here for us to buy.
These companies spend thousands of dollars for these animals to be poisoned, burnt and killed.
Some of the chemicals tested on the animals are cosmetics, cleaning products, drugs, pesticides and foods. These chemicals can cause painful eye and skin reactions, but the scientists won’t give the animals any pain relief. Scientists don’t give the animal’s pain relief, as they fear the pain relief will affect the outcome of the chemicals being tested.
What most people don’t know is, when they donate to a medical charity it’s assisting to fund research involving animal testing and with this support, it has become a multi-billion dollar industry. Some schools and universities still use animals in practical lessons, which has nothing to do with most of the students’ career path, so the animals are been experimented on for no good
reason.
If you don’t agree with animal testing, there are many things you can do. You can help out by not purchasing products that say ‘tested on animals’, encourage your family and friends to do the same, always read cosmetics and toiletries to see if it has been tested on animals, if you want to donate to charity make sure it doesn’t support animal research and if you are at school or university and animals are being used in class, tell your teacher you don’t want to take part in the lesson.
In conclusion, animal testing does have its positives and negatives. We have achieved many medical breakthroughs and made sure products were safe, by using animal testing. But on the other hand, millions of animals have been caused pain, suffering and even death. I believe animal testing should be banned, since we wouldn’t put humans through the same tests as animals. It’s not fair for the animals to go through all the pain and suffering, for the safety of products. We can still achieve safe products and medical breakthroughs, without animal testing, if more people would help out.