Imagine being a helpless animal: scared and hungry, in a metal box crammed with angry strangers. Now imagine being poked, prodded, and cut with the roughest grip. The pain and confusion is unbearable, while the humans are showing no sympathy. All of the pain and suffering is caused because they want to enhance the way they look. Animal testing has been around and used for centuries, but the human race has advanced extremely in science since that time, so there is no logical reason to continue the testing of animals. Animal experimentation should be eliminated because animals have feelings, the experiments are inhumane, the results are unreliable, it is wasting tax money, and there are better methods than having to test on animals.
Animals have feelings and show emotion, unlike many of the scientists who experiment on them. Animals have emotions and have the ability to show empathy towards other animals. Chandna reports, “In one notoriously cruel experiment, macaque monkeys were given food only if they pulled a chain that electrically shocked another monkey. Nearly all the monkeys preferred to go hungry, and one macaque went without food for 12 days rather than cause pain to another” (Chandna). This undoubtedly demonstrates the ability of an animal to show feelings and empathy towards another, even if the outcome is the animal itself suffering. Many humans would react the same way in a similar situation. In a different experiment rats would be offered a treat for themselves while another rat was confined, but instead of eating the reward they would free the other rat and share the treat with them (Chandna). It is not surprising that the rat would share their treat due to them being extremely social animals who “become emotionally ...
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Animals should not be used as test subjects for any research. The innocent and helpless animals’ rights are being violated when they are involved during animal experimentation. These unfortunate animals do not have a choice whether or not they want to be involved in testing. They are not intended for people to experiment on for their own selfish reasons. It is not right to take advantage of the animals because they are helpless and cannot protect themselves. Animals and humans have similarities; they both behave, feel, think, and experience pain. Therefore, animals should be treated with the same respect as humans. The pain and suffering an animal is forced to endure is not worth any new product. It is cruel and inhumane to take advantage of an innocent animal. These tests that use animals to ensure the safety of products are extremely common without people even knowing about it. It is not fair to these animals to abuse their beauty. They are helpless and cannot control what is happening to them. Animal experimentation should be stopped because it violates the rights of animals and harms or even kills the animals.
Although animal research is a shareholder in the development of medicine and the advance of cosmetic and household products, it is still not legitimate to abuse those creatures to satisfy human needs and wants. Alternatives have been initiated to relinquish the use of non-human beings since it is against animal rights. Animal testing should be prohibited and new methods should be introduced to non-medical institutions like the cosmetic industries and the household production enterprises. Laboratories should take ease of technology to supersede animals by upgraded alternatives that can help in the development of new treatments that may be more efficient. Personally, I think animal testing is a cruel nature that cannot be justified. Why sacrifice those defenseless lives if superior methods are available?
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Right now, millions of animals—including mice, rats, dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs and monkeys—are locked in tight cages in laboratories waiting in fear for the next terrifying and painful lab experiment to be performed on them. (“Animals Used for Experimentation”) Such testing is used for things like biology lessons, medical training, curiosity-driven experimentation, and general cosmetic testing. (“Animal Experiments: Overview”) Animal testing should not continue in our world being that animals have rights similar to us, rights to live a life free of torture, free of being held against their will in a laboratory. Furthermore, animal testing is inhumane, it violates the lives of all animals used in such testing, it is very expensive for the inaccuracy of the results we obtain from it and it is unreliable as animals differ from humans in many ways. (“Pros and Cons of Animal Testing Facts”)
Some would argue that animal testing is torture. Some would say that animal testing is completely necessary. There is no reason for animal testing to happen. There are several statistics that point to the negative side of animal testing. There are more pointing to the negative than to the positive. What is the point on testing on animals when we have statistics like how only 1.16% of the diseases are found in animals, or that 92% of the things that do pass through animal testing do not even work on humans? Europe, Israel, and India have already banned animal testing for cosmetics, because it was too harmful on the animals.
Animal testing should be continued because the actual processes and outcomes are exaggerated, it helps create more procedures, and it finds cures to human health problems. A sacrifice of a few animals is worth the effort of trying to preserve the presence of human beings. Animal testing is fair, as long as the pain is reduced or stopped. Animals are important, but humans are necessary in our world today.
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Animal testing should be banned for unnecessary tests because why would the government want to put human through the same thing that the animals go through. Animals should not be guinea pigs to the horrible tests that the scientists run on them. The animals should be able to be free and not have to be strapped down and forced-fed. Animals feel the pain just as well as a human would, but a human can walk away from the pain and say “no”. Sometimes it is better to run tests on animals to find a cure for cancer, HIV, and other diseases but the government and the scientists should find a different way to do this with out killing so many animals.
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Imagine yourself locked up in a cold, dirty cage, without any sort of rights. You can't move around as you wish, force-fed substances you never seen, you get harmful chemicals rubbed into your skin or dripped into your eyes, purposely exposed to toxic drugs, chemicals and fumes, and forced to undergo painful shots that affect you mentally and physically. I know, it sounds horrible and it gets worse. You get an injury, a severe open wound, you're in the cage and can barely move. There are people around you, but they do nothing but observe you and take notes. This is what millions of animals who end up in laboratories feel: abused, neglected, hopeless, helpless and hurt. Animal testing is wrong, and I believe it should be banned. Every year, more than 115 million animals are used in laboratory experiments. Within the European Union, more than 12 million animals are used and more than 100 million are killed in the Unites States alone from testing. Because only a small percentage of
The animal experimentation, also known as animal testing program, is a program that use animals to see the results in drugs, beauty products, hair spray (other hair accessories). Opinions on this subject are a different form each other because some say that we should still use animals, but I disagree. There are many reason but these are my 3 reasons for why we should stop animal testing. Animal testing is inhumane
There has been abundant support testifying for the complicated and influential bonds among people and other animals, both positive and negative. It’s not an uncommon opinion that the welfare of animals is of ethical importance. Numerous individuals believe that imposing unnecessary pain on animals is immoral. Some individual’s actual handling of animals is anything but them having genuine concern for their discomforts. Everyday a great number of animals are killed for food, amusement, and clothing. Some animals are commonly held in appalling surroundings; they are imprisoned in isolated areas. Animals are often utilized in medical experiments to study the results of toxins, drugs, radiation, and frequently destroyed after studies are completed; if the experiments performed on them didn’t kill them first. Animal welfare is a worldwide concern influencing human wellbeing, societal growth, poverty, and ecological maintenance.
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