Testing on animals is also a lot more expensive and non-practical than alternative methods. (Animals In). “Some people, including some scientists object to the practice strictly on ethical and moral grounds, refuting or rejecting any scientific evidence that animal testing is helpful to humans.” (Judson 12). However, groups opposing the cruel treatment of animals were influential in getting regulations passed to protect welfare of animals.…
There are many alternatives to animal testing and excuses need to stop being made to keep animal testing in business. It may seem like it is the only option, but there are so many new ways to do the exact same test in ways which do not involve animals at all. It is cruel and inhumane to keep animals in small cages and not only physically, but also mentally harm them. Artist Leonardo Da Vinci once said, “The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.” The time for animals to be treated similarly to humans can be…
Though I believe animal testing is cruel and unethical, it is currently the single most accurate option. Inarguably, scientific research has led to countless breakthroughs and saved millions of lives. Ultimately, the harsh treatments endured by animals is highly wrong, but this research still remains vital for treating and curing diseases. Animal testing plays a crucial role in sustaining the human race and without it, many of us would not be alive today.…
Activists are demanding to reduce the use of animals in experimentation. Protesters are attacking biomedical scientists rather than those who provides food or clothing. Ingrid Newkrik who is a national director of People for Ethical Treatment of Animals declares that six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughterhouses. Every year the cost of animals to use for experimenting goes up. Animal testing has first been used in 1242, a man named Ibn al-Nafis provided accurate descriptions of the circulation of blood in mammals.…
Many examples in the history of medicine not performing the way it is planned is due to the barrier between animals and humans. In the 1950’s an epidemic had hit the United States after an animal tested product was being distributed in stores. These sleeping pills carried a drug that if not moderated can affect the lives of unborn babies. These tests were done on pregnant animals such as rats, guinea pigs, and even cats. With no effects occurring it was pushed to the human trials.…
Animals should not be used in scientific experimentation because it is unethical. The vast majority of the animals in a laboratory are put through painful procedures in the name of medicine. According to Animal Testing,“researchers subject rodents to burns, electric shocks, or other painful experiences in order to examine how similar traumas could affects humans. Other animals are intentionally given diseases so that scientists can test and devise effective treatments.” Scientists subject defenseless animals through experiences that are in humane such as burns and shocks.…
Animal testing for medical research is wrong because of the lethal results, inhumane treatment, and lack of different testing methods. Animal experimentation allows the conduction of extremely…
Opinions Behind Why Animal Testing Is or Is Not Ethical Carissa A. Kelley Glen Oaks Community College Abstract Is it ethical to harm animals by performing experiments on them in order to provide research that will later benefit people? This research paper analyzes BLANK Number of journals and their opinions on animal testing. The two major viewpoints on animal testing are; animal testing is immoral, or animal testing is ethically acceptable. Both sides provide strong examples and reasonable arguments to support their opinions. The Ethics of Animal Testing…
Animal testing has improved the life expectancy of humans by 97 percent since a hundred years ago. Animal research is used all over the United States by veterinarians and scientist. When people think of animals they generally think of house pets. Many can relate to animals as being their friends. Researchers use mice, rats, dogs, cats and monkeys to test most of the medicine on before the public gets the vaccines.…
Sometimes, sacrifices are necessary for the greater good. Specifically, in the scientific field, experiments must be conducted to verify whether drugs actually work. To do so scientists often use animal such as rats and monkey, but with the recent evidence of animals having certain cognitive abilities. This use of animals raises serious ethical issues with animal rights activist strongly fighting against the use of animal testing. Therefore, is animal testing still justifiable?…
Researchers don't have authority to let poor innocent animals be the victims of their “tests” Humans fail to classify the difference between what is right and what is not. As a kid, I used to believe that people care and love animals. Even most religions state we should be merciful and display our kindness to them, so why are we opposing it by torturing them in our experiments? Animal testing is life wasting. The U.S alone drains $16 billion dollars ANNUALLY just to run animal tests that are not even accurate.…
The beginnings to animal testing were used for common colds, then the testing varieties grew, which caused protests against animal cruelty and helped us find alternatives to animal testing, which should be used in place of the current practices. The three Greek physician-scientists who started animal testing were Aristotle, Erasistratus, and Galen. The practice of using animals for biomedical research has come under severe criticism by animal protection and animal rights groups. This practice has "started to cause debates on the ethics of animal testing have raged since the seventeenth century" (Hajar). Thanks to animal testing protest groups a pharmaceutical sulfa drug was discovered.…
Many people who are against animal testing find it to be unethical, and they have many reasons why. The way that the tested animals are tortured is cruel and inhumane. Animals experimented on are “commonly subjected” to forced feeding, forced inhalation, deprivation of food and water, long periods of physical restraint, burns and other wounds (in order to study the healing process), infliction of pain, and other ways to flat out kill them (Pro-Con, Paragraph 6b). Many people find it to be unethical for several reasons, such as that animals are living, feeling beings and do not deserve to be treated the way that they are (Peta, Paragraph #2), of humanity’s personal…
Animal testing is cruel and inhumane and shouldn’t be happening. Ultimately, what is at stake here is the innocent lives of animals worldwide. To begin with, animal testing promotes cruelty from humans towards animals. Furthermore,…
ANIMAL TESTING AND EXPERIMENTATION Vioxx was tested to have a protective effect on hearts of animals, but it caused more than 27,000 heart attacks and cardiac deaths before it was pulled off of the shelf. Animal testing and Experimentation According to humane society international (2015), every year more than 100 million animals are killed in the U.S laboratories for testing and experimentation. The most common animals used for testing are mice, fish, rats, rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, farm animals, birds, cats, dogs and monkeys says hsi.org (2014). They are used for many different things.…