Imagine being confined to a cage. You hear your friend’s in the background crying of pain. You only get attention when a human wants to use you. You are taken away from your family. You are burned. You are beaten. You are disoriented from all the chemicals, drugs and toxins floating in your body. The humans gaze upon you in interest while you plea for the suffering to stop. If you are not killed you are thrown back into your cage. You sit and wait in fear for the next terrifying and painful procedure. This is just a glimpse of what test animals go through. Animals should not be used for scientific or commercial experimentation because they are unfit to produce human results, it is incredibly expensive and testing is cruel and inhumane
First, a staggering number of 26 million animals are used for testing in the United States every year. Animals are very different from humans; therefore they are not the best test subjects. Paul Furlong, a Professor of Clinical Neuroimaging at Aston University (UK), states, "it's very hard to create an animal model that even equates closely to what we're trying to achieve in the human." Moreover, new methods are being created
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Animals such as rats, mice, primates, rabbits, cats and dogs are used to run tests on. PETA declares, “Some animals have portions of their brains destroyed or removed to impair their cognitive function or cripple them. These sensitive, intelligent animals then have their bodies immobilized in restraint chairs and their heads bolted into place as they are forced to perform a variety of behavioral tasks while their brain activity is recorded.” “Jeremy Bentham, the founder of a reforming school of philosophy, stated that when deciding on a being’s rights, “The question is not ‘Can they reason?’ nor ‘Can they talk?’ but ‘Can they suffer?’” Bentham points to the capacity for suffering as the vital characteristic that gives a being the right to equal