How would you feel if you were forced to be used in agonizing experiments and could say nothing about it? What if you could depend on others to speak for you? This is how animals feel in laboratories when new products are being tested on them every day. Abraham Lincoln once said: “I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being” (Ives, 2007, p. 153). Balancing between the rights of animals and using animals as biomedical models has been a controversial issue within the society since the 18th century. Animal testing or in vivo testing is the use of living animals in scientific experiments that are under-taken for purposes of examining the efficiency of new medicinal products before applying them on humans and testing …show more content…
Most of the experimental animals are never exposed to fresh air or sunshine, only bars or concrete. Small, packed cages, lack of nutrition, and loud noises are the lab conditions that are known to emerge stress and psychological problems in animals. Moreover, animals, in laboratories, are exposed to chemicals, drugs, and infectious diseases that cause suffering and distress, and even death. Also, animals are hardly fed, forced to live in foul conditions, and might have their vocal cords eliminated to make them quiet. Most, if not all animals that are used in experiments die from abnormalities and other conditions before the experiment is accomplished. Animals such as chimpanzees who survive the experiments that are performed on them are later killed after the research is completed. During experiments, animals are tortured and subjected to unbearable pain. For in-stance, Draize test and the Lethal Dose 50 test are among the most commonly used toxicity tests, which are well known for the extreme pain and suffering they cause to experimental animals. In the Draize test, a substance is introduced into the eye or applied to the