Experimenting on animals is not an issue that blossomed recently, it has been going on for years. Most of the new discoveries whether they are related to cosmetics or medicine or even household products have been due to the research on animals. The question should be: “why should animals suffer for something that humans need?” However, is everyone okay with that, or are people objecting the process of experimenting on animals? According to The Guardian, the people’s opposition to this torture has been growing over the years. In the past, people’s trust in the governments and in science, specifically, was way more than their trust now. A poll was conducted amongst the people in the UK according to The Guardian, and results showed that 47% of …show more content…
About 54% of the people oppose to animal testing amongst young adults aged 18 to 29 as on 2012, according to Zeltner, B. As per Justin Goodman, director of PETA and an adjunct instructor of sociology at Marymount University in Arlington, Va., that no matter what the gender is, political connections or even age groups, the negativism towards animal testing has been dramatically increasing. That comes as a result for the laws, policies as well as the research funding systems have changed to meet the people’s …show more content…
Bella Williams said, Alistair Currie, policy advisor for charity People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), says that animals are not ours to experiment on and play with. His argument came as the following: just like mankind, animals feel pain and fear and by instinct all what they thirst for is to be free and shelter their own lives. Animals cannot stand up for themselves when they are getting drugged in order to be locked in a small cage where they are subjected to all kinds of abuse and suffering and all of that is just for the sake of helping the human. He said that approximately 90% of the medicines that were tested on animals fail in people, that counts as a gigantic waste of money, hope, animal lives and scientific resources. Taking the innocent dogs for instance, in these laboratories are force-fed pesticides and other chemicals while mice and monkeys are paralyzed intentionally from brain