Academic Paper
Animals have been used in experiments and research for centuries. The earliest references to animal testing are found in the writings of the Greeks in the third and fourth centuries BC and using animal continuous increasingly to the present time. When the first rockets were launched there was a chimpanzee in this vehicle which went to death. In order to find new treatments, bacteria or viruses carrying disease were injected to laboratary animals. Many scientists had done vivisection to understand human’s physiology. Today animals are still used in the experiments and tests such as medical and veterinary research, drug research, agricultural experiments, household product tests, warfare and space research, …show more content…
And also testing these products on human beings is illegal and unethical. Because of these reasons animals become an important part of product testing. CBC News (2003) said that acording to cosmetic industry in order to determine chemicals which cause cancer or allergy, animal testing is best way. And they also said that animal testing has been key in developing, for example better toothpaste, safer sunscreen. Furthermore again in this news it is given that 38,000 animals die every year in the EU because of cosmetic testing (n. …show more content…
According to these people all animals and plants in the world are created for human beings. In addition to this in the 17th century people thought that animals are not living creature because of Descartes’s idea “I think, therefore I am”. All these ideas made killing animals without any explanations or using them however they want the most natural right of human beings. After that experiments on animals began to increase and became the most popular technique of research. *However animals have a nerve system and feel pain as human beings. They may have not a sense as well as human being but it is not mean that they do not effect from experiments or tests that applied on them. There exist rights for animals that protect them from exploiting. AFC (Animals Friend Croatia) gives article of The Universal Declaration of Animal Rights (n. d.) “Experiments on animals that can cause physical and mental pain, are incompitable with animal rights, even it is for medical, scentific, commercial or any other kind of experiment. A substitude technique must be investigated and developed” (n. pag.). I think applying experiments are unacceptable in terms of animals