We can not depend on the results of animal testing. Because animals and humans are different, the results of the animal tests might not apply to us. Just because one species reacts to a given drug or chemical in a particular way doesn't necessarily mean another species will respond the same way. Furthermore, animals kept in unnatural conditions, or animals in pain or distress, are not going to give consistent or accurate results anyway. One scholar mentions, “It is a flawed practice that has resulted in the needless suffering and deaths of millions of animals" (Festing 1).
He does convince me that there is an issue with us assuming things for the nonhumans because we do not know what they want. In order for us to have the luxuries we have today, for example, make-up and shampoo they needed to be tested before the products were official and ready for use. Singer cites two experiments and they are not very nice when they experiment on the animals. He
They live not to be used by scientists for experimentation, but to stabilize the ecosystem. Therefore, animals should not be used in scientific experiments. Animals being used for scientific experimentation is cruel and inhumane as animals feel pain and fear just as humans do. Humans may think that they are not considered as animals, but humans are the largest populated animals in the animal kingdom. This indicates that humans and animals both have equal rights and responsibilities.
Vivi-section violates animal freedom. And since animals cannot volunteer themselves, they are chosen for scientific purposes with no voice in the matter whatsoever. If us humans go swimming we have to sign waivers but these poor animals are being signed up for torture, which will lead to their inevitable death with no say in the matter. Vivi-section is used for scientific purposes, for finding cures that benefit the human population, sure a few animals will be saved using these cures but in the end it’s the human population that benefits more from the deaths of these helpless animals.
Founding members of Showing Animals Respect and Kindness (SHARK) and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) are groups of people that do not understand the origin of rodeo and its sensitivity to animal welfare issues. When something is not understood, it is commonly misconstrued. Rodeo is being protested against because the people of PETA and SHARK play on readers emotions. Emotions, especially “blind” ones, are strong enough to cause people to take action against organizations or activities about which they have no background information. If more people did not rely so much on emotions and relied more on intelligence, then problems like this would not arise.
Opposition Arguments to Different Narrowed Positions 1. Not everyone should have to be a vegetarian for the fact that animals can feel pain, but they should not have the same rights as humans. Animals are part of our food chain. They are not capable of being more than what they are. Animals do not have the ability to speak, have a thought process that can be communicated nor do they understand the human civilization.
Nevertheless, scientists still have not come up with an accurate way to test products and cosmetics, which will not put animals as well as human beings skin in danger. Putting aside all the technological advancements and developments, it can be argued that animal testing should be banned not only in cosmetics, but for any other experimentation as well. A large number of animals today spend their life in laboratories, where they cannot comprehend that they are just being used as a part of an experiment. Animal experimentation has been around for many centuries, and the reasons for doing this is to find out more about animals themselves, and most frequently, to test substances and products to see if they are injurious for humans themselves. Mice are the most commonly used animals for laboratory work because they are small and easy to keep.
Slaughterhouses were gruesome and extremely unethical in their approach to materialize animals. It seems as if animals were no longer living beings but rather objects that humans can reproduce and manipulate. I believe that many people in our society are anthropocentric because a lot of them are not exposed to what the food industries really do. The general public is often occupied with the idea that everything should revolve around improving ourselves. But not a lot of people pay attention to what happens behind the scenes.
How is it that humans can test on animals, while the animals feel everything that humans feel? It shouldn’t be okay to test on animals because they have the same pain tolerance as humans do. The testing on animals is dangerous and it is harming the animals; it is cruel to the animals by keeping the animals locked up in cages, humans use the animals for testing the products that the humans use for the use of humans only, and it is unfair to the animals by keeping them in the lab and not letting the animals run around. Humans shouldn’t be able to test on animals. The humans that say testing on animals helps the United States with the problems that are going on and make sure the product is safe to use so it can be tested on animals to see if it will harm the humans before the use.
These laws along with the media fail to realize that the owner is responsible for the behavior of their pets. These laws are unjust because an animal cannot be blamed for its behavior, and blame should be placed on the owner of the animal. A whole breed of a dog is widely afraid of due to a few bad owners. Rather than having breed specific laws, perhaps there needs to be more consumer education and legal responsibility from the owners (Collier, 17). Dog breed banning is wrong and would not be necessary if people that were planning on owning dogs were more educated on the proper ways to care for a dog and the proper ways to train a dog The pit bull really started to get a bad reputation starting in the 1980’s.