In today’s society, many people debate whether or not using animals in research is humane. An estimated 26 million animals are used every year in the United States for scientific and commercial testing. [2] Proponents of animal testing state that it has enabled the development of numerous life-saving treatments for both humans and animals, while opponents state that animal testing is cruel and often yields irrelevant results because animals are so different from human beings. Many different animals are used in scientific studies such as rabbits, mice, primates, dogs, cats, pigs, and cows. I believe that animal testing is beneficial because it provides opportunities to improve the lives of both humans and animals.…
Animal testing, also known as animal experimentation, or in vivo testing, often uses non-human animals in experiments to test the safety of products and has been a topic of heated debate for decades. Although some research uses animals only for natural behaviors observation, F. Barbara Orlans claimed in her book, In the Name of Science: Issues in Responsible Animal Experimentation, that more than sixty percent of all animals used in animal testing suffer from experiment procedure or even get killed in biomedical research and product-safety testing. On the one hand, successful animal testing can lead to medical cures and treatments for human beings, on the other hand, opponents are doubting the reliability of animal…
Animal testing for scientific or commercial use is wrong and inaccurate because animals are made up differently than humans. Animal testing is procedures done on animals for research to test medicine and commercial items to see if they are harmful or effective for humans. The experiments can cause the animals to have physical and mental suffering and distress. Most of the animals are killed at the end of the experimentation but some are used again in other experiments. The most common animals used for the experiments are fish, mice, rats, rabbits, guinea pigs, farm animals, hamsters, birds, cats, dogs, and monkeys. More than 115 million animals are used in experiments worldwide. Animals are living beings too, they should get the chance to live…
Aristotle and Erasistratus were the first two early Greek physician-scientist performed experiments on living animals. In 1859, Charles Darwin's evolutionary theory reinforced the conception that animals could serve as models for humans in the study of biology and physiology. Animal testing plays a large important role in pharmaceutical and medical advances, but many question the mortality of such use of the animal’s life. More than 100 million aninals are used for testing every single year. Animal testing has brought a lot of positive and negative outcome and there are many different opinions regarding it.…
In many cases, animals are used in order to make sure that a certain product will have no negative side affects on humans. Animals have been used for several decades in experiments to make sure that it is safe for humans to use. One of the biggest controversies in all areas of scientific research today centers on the ethics of animal testing. However, this issue has raised a number of questions relating to human ethics. In the past, according to Michael Allen Fox, “several plans have been introduced for organizations that continuously rely on animals for testing purposes, but no plans have worked so far” (Fox). Animal testing should not be done in a manner as it is presently being done. Not only is it unethical and cruel, but also organizations are using animals in their laboratories for profit purposes and are abusing the rights they have to experiment on these animals. They…
Scientists are constantly looking for new medical advances that they hope will save people’s lives and often turn to animals as the optimal resource for testing new ideas and products. These animals range from rats and mice to dogs and monkeys. On top of varying animals, the tests they run fluctuate from simply checking the effectiveness of a medicine already in use to testing an entirely new form of treatment. However, there have beens years of controversy over the morality of using animals as the test subjects.…
The definition of animal testing in its simplest form is defined as the use of animals in experiments and development projects that usually determine toxicity, dosing, and efficacy of test drugs before proceeding to human clinical trials (Webster). This definition clearly does not get into the specifics. There is a broad variety of animal testing ranging from non-harmful to irritating to deathly. While humans investigate, produce, and market these products, the consumer is often oblivious to the history behind these products. Thorough and repetitive scrutiny and investigation of these products is required to achieve safety standards and Food and Drug Administration approval.…
Animals testing has been applied throughout human history. The use of animals in scientific experiments in the United Kingdom can be traced back to at least the 17th century with the experiments on numerous animal species aiming to demonstrate blood circulation (“History of Animal Research”). Once animal testing became known, it expanded. During the late 19th and the 20th centuries, the expansion of medical science meant that the number of animals used in research expanded steadily (“History of Animal Research”). “The number of animals used rose to over 5.5 million in 1970 after this point the numbers began to decline rapidly (“History of Animal Research”).” Most of the medical advances that happened in the 20th century were from animal experimentation.…
A highly debated argument in today’s society is animal research and testing. There is much controversy surrounding the issue not only within biology, but general ethics as well. Some people feel that animal research is ethical because it furthers human well-being, as well as provides mechanisms to cure disease. Other people, however, believe animal research is not ethical because the treatment of the animal is inhumane, unnecessary, and non consensual. I personally feel that animal testing is very important in the world of medical research and should continue.…
Animal research is important in understanding diseases and developing ways to prevent them. Kidney transplants, the polio vaccine, and heart surgery techniques have all been developed with the help of animal research. With increased efforts throughout the scientific community, effective treatments for diabetes, diphtheria, and many other diseases have had increased effectiveness courtesy of animal testing. Scientists inject a lab animal with a virus such as AIDS or cancer, and then try to cure them. If it works on a lab animal, they have developed a new cure. The followers of animal testing agree that if animal testing had been eliminated, that many of the medications and medical procedures that we currently use today wouldn’t be present and the expansion of future treatment would be greatly restricted. For example, more than 100,000 people have been hospitalized and later died from toxic reactions to medications in 1994 that were not predicted by animal…
Every year millions of animals are subjected to horrible unethical experimentations in order to advance medical science. Dogs, cats, monkeys, mice, and other animals are kept in dark rooms in cages while being exposed to various toxic and poisonous substances daily in order to test how the substance may react in humans. These poor creatures suffer from inhumane treatments and are denied any form of happiness, and these experiments should cease and alternatives should be used instead. Animal testing is a cruel and ineffective medical practice that produces unreliable results and those laboratories should use safer alternatives that will provide more accurate results.…
An estimated 26 million animals are used every year in the United States for scientific and commercial testing. Animals are used to develop medical treatments, determine the toxicity of medications, and check the safety of products destined for human use. Animals that are used to test medical treatments or other scientific tests most of the time don’t survive, for every hundred medications tested, 92% of them fail, and 50% of the animals that got tested die, those that don't die are later killed(92/100 animals ...."Top Five Reasons to Stop Animal Testing). The animals that are being tested on do not live good lives either, as they can’t choose when and what to eat, or how they will spend their…
The US National Institute of Health spends $14 billion out of their $31 billion annual budget on animal researching(Humane Society International; Conlee; US National Institutes of Health). Animal testing has become a very controversial topic to discuss. Experimenting on animals is cruel because even though there are alternative ways to test people still believe that testing on the animals is a better way to do things. Acts of cruelty against the animals, and the fact that animals are different from humans seem to be big issues in the controversy. There are alternative ways to test for products other than testing the animals. There have been horrible acts of animal cruelty that violates the Animal Welfare Act’s laws, and the last…
Animal testing has for a long time been a much debated moral issue. For many, this kind of testing has been the only kind of hope for developing new medicines and treatments for illness. For others, it is an unacceptable and unnecessary cruel way of exploiting animals for our own purposes. Treatments for illnesses such as tuberculosis, diabetes, kidney failure and asthma have all been discovered, and vaccinations against polio, diphtheria, tetanus and measles for example have all been found.…
Animal testing is used for commercial or scientific reasons to find cures and treatments, and to ensure the safety of products for humans. Laboratories prefer to use animals such as mice, rats, and monkeys because they are so closely related to humans and will get more accurate results. The most common tests that are performed are toxicity and corrosivity tests, genetic manipulation, inflicted pain and diseases, surgical procedures, and injecting human diseases into animals. Scientists are working on new alternative methods to replace animal testing to improve many different factors such as social and environmental factors. New methods are being used but have not yet replaced animal testing due to animal testing being the default method but…