The Pros And Cons Of Animal Testing

A person walking down an aisle at Target, picking up an everyday product such as Clorox, Air Wick, L’Oreal, or Downy should be horrified when they see the tested on animals label in fine print. Animals are used every year for commercial and scientific testing in the United States. A portion of these animals are mutilated, crippled, burned and abused every year. This disturbing fact is supposed to help humanity by guaranteeing safe medicines and products that were previously tested on animals. Scientists experiment on animals and by doing this testing, scientists are supposed to develop safe medical treatments or medicines for humanity; however, most of the products created are never actually tried on humans. These animals are suffering through horrible and inhumane experiments when there are better methods to ensure the safety of humans as well as animals. Alternative testing methods do exist. These alternative methods can replace the need for animals but, still, animals are being abused for testing. Animal testing needs to be eliminated for a number of reasons. Most experiments, which involve animals, are flawed and never used on humans, wasting the lives of those animals. Animal testing, which violates animal’s rights, is expensive, unreliable, and unsafe. It is important to know the horrific facts about animal testing as well as the alternative methods; therefore, humanity can better the economy, and not only human lives but also animals lives.
The term “animal testing” refers to experimentations on living animals for the purpose of research into biology and illnesses, assessing effectiveness of new medicinal products, and testing the human health and environmental safety of consumer and industry products such as cosmetics, ...

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...s well as researchers should proceed in creating a law that protects animals from animal cruelty during experimentation. There are countless methods that do not involve animals that are more efficient; “[t]hese modern methods include sophisticated tests using human cells and tissues (also known as in vitro methods), advanced computer-modeling techniques (often referred to as in silico models), and studies with human volunteers” (PETA 1). People everyday get charged with animal abuse to their own pets. Animals’ rights need to be recognized. Although people have different view of what animal’s rights actually are, it does not excuse abuse for any reason. Animal experimentation cannot be justified. The examples of what takes place in the laboratories should be enough evidence to make someone think before they pickup that every day product from Target.