It is inhumane to keep animals in small enclosures like that where they wouldn’t even get room to stretch their legs or get the chance to behave like they would naturally in the wild. The more intelligent animals (dogs, cats, pigs, primates etc) suffer from severe cases of loneliness because they lack the rights to run around and be free. How would you feel if you could not run around in a free environment? My second argument is using animals for testing cosmetics. It is estimated that over 1 million animals are killed due to companies that test their products on animals and those companies tell us that they use animals to test the safety of their products.
[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.
Anderson Cancer Center's animal research facility, states that "we wouldn't have a vaccine for hepatitis B without chimpanzees," and says that the use of chimps is "our best hope" for finding a vaccine for Hepatitis C, a disease that kills 15,000 people every year in the United States. (Associated Press, July 22, 2013). Animals are appropriate research subjects because they are similar to human beings in many ways. Chimpanzees share 99% of their DNA with humans, and mice are 98% genetically similar to humans. (CBRA, 2013).
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. Thanks to advancements in science and technology, the scientific methods are more reliable and ethnical than animal experiment, which deems animal testing are unnecessary. Artificial human tissues and manmade organs are made instead of scientists trying human guts on animals. The Harvard Crimson reports that scientists have developed a device that simulates the microenvironment of human intestines by creating a miniaturized three-dimensional scaffold that supports growth and development of a person’s own cell. In addition, animal testing usually spread diseases due to the unsanitary conditions in the cage and laboratory.
Government figures show that three million animals per year in the UK alone are poisoned, surgically injured, driven insane, burned, irradiated, starved, electrocuted, kept in solitary confinement and eventually killed all in the name of research, in experiments that most people would find hard to even imagine. Indeed, the torture that laboratory animals are subjected to would be illegal under any other premise. Yet the military, pharmaceutical industry, universities, private research groups, charitable organisations and energy companies continue to carry out these daily atrocities with government and public support. In a nation of animal lovers, it is difficult to accept that were the public actually aware of the systematic and brutal conduct that these animals are subjected to, they would still be indifferent to or in favour of vivisection. Unfortunately though, the cruelty and suffering that is so rife in laboratories is always hidden from public
(Bantwal) It is common for certain drugs to have no effect on animals, but it can be harmful to humans. Although, animals have close to the same bodily functions, it is not accurate to test on animals and expect to have the same results on humans. It is true how people that oppose animal testing say that it can be cruel. Every year, there are five million dogs, cats, rabbits, rats, monkeys, and other animals that are used for tests in the United States. Fifty percent of these animals will die within two to three weeks once the experiments started.
There are several reasons to why animal testing needs to be stopped. The method of animal testing is ‘bad science’ since The Food and Drug Administration reports that 92 out of every 100 drugs that pass animal tests fail in humans. Animals might have similarities to humans but they’re not exactly the same, which means testing on animals is useless. Because of that, animal testing is also an act of wasting our time, money and resources that we can spend on other human-relevant researches. In America, 106,000 deaths a year are attributed to reactions to medical drugs.
Someone finds the abandoned animal and turns him over to a local veterinarian. The animal will get the best treatment and recover...but, the question is, should someone be prosecuted because of the injuries, and the neglect which animal sustained? Should the animal have rights? Non-human animals bleed, they have a heart, they have brains, they feel pain and lastly, they are God's children. According to Bekoff, Michael Mountain published a summary of a recent meeting held in Cambridge, England at which; science leaders have reached a critical consensus: Humans are not the only conscious beings; other animals, specifically mammals and birds, are indeed conscious, too (n.p.).
Billions of dollars are spent each year funding medical research that has been proven to be ineffective. There are technologically advanced methods of conducting medical research rather than animal testing. However, animal testing continues to be one of the most popular methods used today. Is it right for an animal to be tortured, in order for a human’s headache to be relieved in less than thirty minutes? Animal testing is ineffective, extremely expensive, and completely inhumane.
Animal testing should be banned When picking out your mascara or eyeliner, do you even stop to see what kind of makeup you are using? You could be supporting animal cruelty and not even know it. Today many makeup products, such as mascara, are being tested on animals. Helpless and defenseless animals are being performed on for different types of experiments all around the world. Most of the things being performed in these labs you could never imagine one human being doing to another.