Banning Animal Testing

The number of animal tests rose from 1,566,944 in 1997 to 2,705,722 from the Journal of Medical Ethics. Animal Experimentation is when animals are used for scientific research and to test certain products. Scientists have used this method for a number of years and rely on it to be the most adequate way. However, it may not be the most accurate way of testing. Animal Testing has gotten more popular since the late 1900s. Many different types of animals are used in research, some of them are not practical animals because they are so different from humans. Examples of animals that are used in research are rodents, dogs, cats, monkeys, and gorillas. Animal Experimentation should be banned because animals are getting harsh treatment, people will
For example, Jeremy Bentham states, “In research and testing, animals are subjected to experiments that can include everything from testing new drugs to infecting with diseases, poisoning for toxicity testing, burning skin, causing brain damage, implanting electrodes into the brain, maiming, blinding and other painful and invasive procedures.” Most of the operations are disturbing and severe treatments that lead to many deaths. Although the Animal Welfare Act was mad, it still lets scientists do these procedures legally If scientist keep testing these animals it will lead to extinction and varied genes. Each year more than 100 million animals are killed in US laboratories for more biological reasons, curiosity, and cosmetics. This number is extremely alarming and this number is only in the U.S. It is most likely that the number of animals tested in the world is a very startling number. Animals deserve to be in their natural habitat and not enclosed in a metal cage. David Haugen once said, “Pain is pain, whatever the creature that experiences.” Animals are creatures just like human beings and people are destroying and killing their
On CNN it states that, “U.S spends 16 billion dollars annually for animal testing at taxpayers’ expense and is subject massive waste and mismanagement of taxpayers’.” This quote explains how people are spending too much money that is not providing any answers. All of this money could be used in alternative methods that might actually help in our research. Furthermore, “A Fox investigation has one lawmaker taking action after we discovered the government is using more than half-million dollars in stimulus money - money meant for saving and creating jobs - to buy monkeys for flu vaccine experiments.” In this investigation not one job was created due to animal experiments. The government is wasting money on animal testing when they could be giving jobs to people that really need it and are in need of money. Moreover animal experimentation is done for illogical reasons such as obesity and addiction. These reasons are not major reasons where someone should punish these animals