Argumentative Essay: Laboratory Experiments On Animals

Laboratory experiments on animal

Jack stumbled upon an article, about how animals are being abused, tortured and killed for the things we commonly use in our household. Written on the article is how a female dog, named Libby have gone through in the hands of researches, it says there that pharmaceutical companies have paid the laboratory to infect animals with worms, fleas, and ticks and smear toxin in their skin to test animal companion products, Imagine how animals are being treated in the confines of that laboratory? How they felt? The use of animals is unethical, and today many people are opposed to the idea of animals being subjected to such harshness and think that Laboratory experiments on dogs, cats, and primates should be banned because it’s replaceable, it’s wasteful and it’s bad science.

Millions of animals a year are subjected to being imprisoned and have been used for scientific research, sometimes they are used for the things we use like our shampoo’s, food, make up along with other things, with the growing

PETA) and also laboratory experiments on animals misspend a lot more money, time and resources that could’ve been spent on human-relevant research. Retired Dr. Richard Klausner, former National Cancer Institute Director states, "We have cured mice of Cancer for decades, and it simply didn't work on humans (“Animal Experiments: Overview”) these cures wasn’t effective on human’s because the results still can’t be transferred. Also Dr. Elias Zerhouni a former National Institute of Health Director later on said "We have moved away from studying human disease in animals. The problem is that it hasn't worked, and it's time we stop dancing around the problem. We need to refocus and adapt new methodologies for use in humans to understand disease biology in humans ( “Animal Experiments: