Animal testing should be banned It was said once by Gandhi : “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animal treated “ .In 1998 and according to the German Animal Welfare Act animal testing has been defined as the procedure of experimenting on animals in order to determine the drug dose, toxicity , and effectiveness before human precede it, this may include harming part or whole of an animal, pain, suffering, and damaging to its hereditary material. Returning back to the history of animal testing, Aristotle and Erasstratus have succeeded to be the first two Greek scientists to perform experiments on living animals. Followed by Galen, another example of a Roman physician in the 2nd-century, who was …show more content…
They believe that animals are considered as the most accurate method for experimenting. Which consequently help scientists and physicians to develop medical treatments and discover safer ways for curing humans. Open heart surgeries, organ transplants and Colorectal Cancer are few examples of diseases that would not have been progressed positively without animal testing. However, animal testing is cruel and in humane. In the name of science, monkeys’ mice, rabbits, pigs, fish, frogs dogs and other cold blooded animals are being exposed to cruel experiments. A shocking fact stated by The Animal Welfare Act (AWA): “more than 95% of the animals used in laboratories are not even covered by the minimal conservation contributed by federal laws”. To make things clear, babies are being forced to be apart from their mothers, engaged, and are continually facing severe psychological stress .furthermore, animals breath toxic fumes, got injected into their eyes and may get their skin burned. In March 2009, and as found by The humane society of the united states (HSUS), The new Iberia research center (NIRC) in Louisiana performed 338 violate experiments on living animals. Moreover, an incident found on October 2011, in the University of California at Davis Center for Neuroscience, a three sealed alive baby mice were found lifted and unattended in a plastic