Examples Of Animal Experimentation

Sara Kim

Mr. Benard Kong

Research and Presentation

March 23, 2018

Animal Experimentation

Nowadays, more than ever, people are raising pets. If you stroll around a park or even walk around the streets, we can see few people walking the dogs. In fact, there are many places that allow pets and there are even pet cafes opened in a lot of places. Dogs and Cats are the mostly raised, as well as some wild animals or insects as followed. In Korea, there’s a proverb stating, “A Dog’s lot in the happiest gall” meaning that, living life as a dog is better than I do. This proverb comes from how pets are spoiled under the master’s hand; almost like the babies, they get taken care of. But would this mean that all those people whom raising pets are like the

The chemical is applied to the skin of the hairless animal or to the eye of the rabbit directly. On the other hand, chemical substances are fed repeatedly through the oral cavity of animals. The safety of various chemicals used in cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and other industrial products sold on the markets are tested on animals before the exportation. Imagine pouring shampoo into the eye of a beagle dog to check for "safety" before a new shampoo is released. This process is repeated until the eyes are blinded or the eyeballs are removed. The company chooses to update the animal experiment rather than trying to find it, even if the similar experiments and content are already been done somewhere in the world. Even if there is existing experimental information, the result of animal experiment is a big difference of the body, and the same experiment is repeated. In particular, companies develop new products to compete with other companies, and the launch of new products means new animal experiments. For example, chemicals that are already been proved as ingredients in shampoos are on the market, but companies try to verify the ingredients they want to include in their new shampoo again through animal testing. They first and only consider the development of new products rather than animal life. However, this sacrifice of an animal’s life does not provide accurate information about the risk to humans in animal experiments. This is because the physical responses to test chemicals of different species, humans and animals, are not the same. Materials that were harmless to laboratory animals could be dangerous to humans, and substances that were harmful to animals could also be harmful to humans. Animals used in experiment are forced to die unconditionally in pain, such as bleeding, paralysis, and cramps. Michaela Kroeger introduced the '3R', which means reduction,