Arguments Against Animal Testing

The Ethics of using animals for testing for the purpose of advancement in medicine has been a controversial non ending argument. For many periods, researchers and scientist have used animals. Millions of animals are being researched, tested within the US every year. Most of this animals are not given pain medications or drugs. Some animals being use are as small as rodents, rats, mice, hamsters. Etc. Other animals being used that are very disturbing as well are human pets such as dogs, cats, monkeys, goats, and rabbits. The animal morality issues is and always will be a topic full of emotions from both sides, the ones that are for it and the ones that are against it. Granting scientists and testers have claimed that to reach medical advancement is that animal testing has to be done because it depends on it, which I beg to differ and disagree. Despite the end result of animal testing not truly successful, researchers still uses animals. There are different alternatives to get an accurate results by not using animals for testing. Animals are tested for advancement of medicine however, that is not just the case. Animals are being used to test

labs every year. Animal testing should be stop because it is immoral to place millions of animals in a cage to feel pain, to live in fear, and loneliness away from their family. Under the Animal Welfare Act of 1966, there are other animals that are not protected, which needs to be revisited and revised. Animals that are not protected are rats, birds, reptiles, mice, and amphibians. Even though the Animal Welfare Act of 1966 exists, many researchers and scientist does not stop them from abusing, torturing, and killing animals. “According to the Humane Society, registration of a single pesticide requires more than 50 experiments and the use of as many as 12,000 animals.” (Dosomething.org, 2016) This numbers are pretty ridiculous to test one