Unfortunately, there is no easy answer. Animal testing is the best possible option. Animal testing is necessary to safely keep up with the growing market of products and pharmaceutical drugs. The animals used for testing often turns into a lethal result. Animal testing is not required by the law, but it is done by the companies to protect itself from consumer lawsuits.
[animal-testing.procon.org] Researchers in Aston University have made it known that it is not worth taking the lives of these animals for testing, because the things we’re trying to make happen with human bodies is very different from the animal body. The anatomic, metabolic, and cellular differences between animals and people make animals poor models for human beings. There is a big percentage from the 1950’s up till now that animal testing is flawed by not being correct when it is given to the people it is for. So why not just stop the animal experiments that are not just killing, but also torturing the animals.
Large number of animals are killed in the laboratory every day. These experiments also delivers inaccurate results, and always spread new diseases. Large numbers of animals are severely suffered and killed in laboratories for many company products. They are rudely dragged out of the cold, hard steel cage, thrown into the laboratory and being cutted alive, smothered with cosmetics products and even forced to smoke cigarette, these cruel experiments lost the animal‘s ability to see, hear and smell. Research shows approximately a hundred million animals were killed each year, and 95% of the animals had suffered animal testing, Animal testing must stop to prevent numerous number of animals being abused and killed.
Also the way that the animals react to the stress of the experiments can severely affect the end results, rendering the experiments meaningless. Although it is true that we need animals to test our medical drugs on because if we didn’t, with modern day technology we wouldn’t be able to find cures for major diseases. But that doesn’t mean we should treat them so
This testing is done by pumping their products into the animals’ stomach, rubbing it on their skin, squirting the product into their eyes, or forcing the animals to inhale a spray. The Animal Welfare Act requires companies that test animals to report the amount of animals they use in experiments, but that does not include mice, rats, and birds used in experiments, and therefore companies don’t report it*. The other type of animal testing that occurs is drug testing. They use this to try and find cures for diseases and for any other type of testing they might need. These tests are pointless for a couple of reasons.
Those who against animal experiments insist that those painful experimentation on animals should be halted. The pain is not moral whether it is experienced by a child, an adult, or an animal. If it is wrong to impose pain on a human being, it is also wrong on an animal. But many people argue that halting animal experiments would end the progress of science and actually human are taking gain from those experiments. Animal experiments should be acceptable if the pain is minimized in all experiments.
Animal Liberation By: Peter Singer “Animal Liberation” is a novel highlighting the ignorance of people about what animals go through in order to fulfill whatever humans need. Whether it is meals or experimentation, millions of animals suffer each year. The author really goes the extra mile to try to make the reader see his point of view by being descriptive in his explanations of the types of pain animals feel. For example, Bunnies are used to test products for eye irritation by placing them in a chamber with only their heads exposed and dropping the product into their eyes. The eyes of the bunnies often become irritated, infected, and even blind.
Some say that this is impossible and we should go as far as to not use products that are tested on animals. As a rational moral person I would suggest that we use our own thoughts and ideas once the research has been done to determine if a products has been used on animals. My son was adamant about not using products that has been tested on animals and when asked if he knew if the product he was concerned about had been tested on animals he did not have an idea. He had not done the research to become informed. Deontology evaluates the morality of an act and when someone is practicing this theory they would view
So Phy Mrs. Figel Persuasive Essay 29 May 2015 Animal Testing Must Stop Each year in the United States, an estimated seventy million animals are hurt or killed in the name of science by private institutions. Abraham Lincoln once said, “I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights that are the way of a whole human being.” There are three main topics to prove why animal testing should be illegal: innocent lives matter, no benefits for killing animals, and people uses animals to perform expensive and unreliable tests. In 2009, according to investigation inside the laboratories stated nearly 75,000 dogs were kidnapped, including thousands of homeless animals from shelters. They were taken away by group of scientists and researchers (PETA). For example, dogs are perfect object in human-disease studies, including studies of heart and hormonal disorders.
This is one of the main scientific concerns because the experiment was carried out on a child who was not physically and mentally healthy, thus the results acquired were not very reliable and accurate as compared to if a normal healthy child was experimented on. (Weiten, 2011). Ethical Concerns (Flanagan,2001;154) "Ethics are a set of moral principles used by professionals, such as doctors. Ethical issues include damage to individuals, questions regarding privacy and also damage to the profession." The first and foremost ethical concern about this experiment was that Watson used the boy as an experimental subject without taking into consideration the possible ill effects.