The new standards stated that three requirements had to be satisfied: (1) “the voluntary consent of the person on whom the experiment is to be performed,” (2) “the danger of each experiment must be previously investigated by animal experimentation,” and (3) “the experiment must be performed under proper medical protection and management” (Washington, 2006, p. 221). These standards were violated when doctors injected Elmer Allen, a black man who had escaped the South and made a good life for himself and his family in Chicago, with plutonium-238 (Washington, 2006). Plutonium-238 is an even more intensely radioactive isotope than plutonium-239, which was given to most of the other patients (Washington, 2006). Allen suffered a similar experience
Pro-Con shares how animals are being treated in the Draize Acute Toxicity test. The supposed reason for this experiment is to see if there is irritation caused by shampoos or other cosmetic products. The test involves “…scientists using clips to hold a rabbit's eyelid open for multiple days, so they cannot blink when products are being tested” (Pro-Con). This barbaric process results in hemorrhaging and blindness. If humans would not think twice about putting their children in cages, infecting them with diseases and leaving them untreated, then they should not consider doing that to animals either.
To begin with, animals used during these horrific ways and experiments have feelings and senses just like humans. During experiments done on these innocent animals, it is illogical to think that animals do not feel any pain. These vulnerable creatures feel pain when they are cut open alive and their bodies release a stress hormone named cortisol which is in human bodies as well. According to Vahdettin Bayazit, "All research protocols are stressful to all animals, for example, behavioral testing, blood sampling, novel situations and environmental manipulation, stool sampling, reproduction techniques such as penile vibratory stimulation or electroejaculation, venipuncture, and saliva or urine sampling"(Bayazit 1024).
In the medical science world, scientists have many ways to find cures for diseases or to figure out if one product is safe for the general public. Animal experimentation, the most common method, is a very inhumane way of testing out certain experiments. In some labs, scientists try and compensate the animals by giving them sort of treatment after experiments. Surprisingly some scientists fail to realize that common primates used in testing have the same sensitivity as humans, they might aswell be testing on humans. Jeory, the author of the article, quotes Dr. Goodall saying; “I can state categorically that they have a similar capacity for suffering, both mental and physical, and show similar emotions to many of ours”.
To summarize, the opponents of animal testing believe that these experimentations are cruel and inhumane and it should be stopped. A lot of experiences did not give the same results for both animals and human. That means that the human body is different from animal’s body. Moreover, the animals suffer a lot from these experiments. They get burned, poisoned, and killed every day in the laboratories.
Testing on animals can cause animals to die because of the chemicals that are used. “The U.S law allows animal testing to be allowed, and the law says that is good for animals
Since Ancient Greece, humans have used animals as a means of learning more about the world. The first known vivisection was done by a Greek philosopher, Alcmaeon, in 450 BCE (“Animal” 1). Since then, animals have had invasive tests performed on them, they have been killed, and they have been experimented on in the name of science or for profit. Some experiments are in order to demonstrate already known facts to students, while others are to further medical knowledge, and some are to test drugs and cosmetics (“Animal” 2). Animals are used, and have been used for millennia, in order to make products, procedures, and life in general, safer for humans―stemming from the belief that human lives are more important than animals’.
Inhumane Experimentations Is animal experimentation necessary? Should we opt for a different form of research? Many would oppose with the idea of looking for a different method, but if people really knew how inhumane animal testing was people would ask for different options. Animal testing has occurred since ancient Greek and Roman times. While at the beginning fewer animals were in the process for a short period of time, throughout existence more animal species have been used for an even longer time ranging from 12 to 18 months.
Animals and other lifeforms are constantly used to test products we as consumers use daily. However, the ethics and morality of this process is questioned by medical professionals and renowned scientists. Although essential to research labs, animal activists continue to fight for the removal of the so-called cruel testing. When in reality, mammals and other organisms should remain as our main subject because these creatures have provided us with extravagant breakthroughs in 21st century consumables and prescriptions. Living animals are used in testing to help put things like hygiene products and other consumables on the shelves of our favorite stores (The Surprising Pros).
There are people out in the world who don’t see the good things when I come to animal testing. They just look at all the negatives and think about the animals in the process of the experiments and researches. What they don’t see, is that how much they help us humans in staying alive and making special treatments. When testing the animals, they have contributed to so many cures and treatments, and sometimes the animals don’t even die. According to ProCon.org on November 2, 2017, “animal research has also contributed to major advances in understanding and treating breast cancer, brain injury, childhood leukemia, and etc.”
Animal experimentation is used by most researchers in the United States, and products need to pass numerous tests on animals before they are approved by the FDA. This is why many animals are used in an experiment; Almost 12,000 animals are used in almost 50 tests for a single pesticide. Is this really necessary? Although testing on animals can protects humans from dangerous products, animal experimentation is not necessary because too many animals die, many tests animals pass fail on humans, and thousands of animals are being tortured. First, too many animals end up dying from being experimented on.
Animal Testing: Justifying the Science Modern advances in science and health are a result of animal experimentation. According to the California Biomedical Research Association, “Why Are Animals Necessary in Biomedical Research?” “For more than a hundred years virtually every medical breakthrough...has been the direct result of research using animals”(1). Even though this is true, organizations like PETA and others are still against the fact that animal research is good for the world. From humans better understanding life threatening diseases like cancer or HIV, to learning more about Heartworms in canines.
Also, society awareness on how products are tested may influence consumption which effects the overall economy and health of society. Although the biggest argument for chemical testing on animals is to protect humans, other alternatives could be implemented to protect helpless animals from a lifetime of cruelty. Public typically believe that chemical testing is only on rats and other rodents; however, a variety of animals such as dogs, cats, bunnies, primates, and farm animals are used as well [2]. Another common misconception is that the lab tested animals are “protected under the presences of ethics committees, the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, and the Code of Practice.”
Along with every other topic there is, there will always be two sides. The question we based this debate on was: Should Animal Testing be Banned? Around the world, people will believe that yes, animal testing should be banned. Others believe that no, animal testing should not be banned. Our team in this debate was on the con side; We believed that animal testing should not be banned because of how much it has helped science.
There are many necessary evils in the world, animal testing being one of them. On one hand, it is being used for the greater good: to find cures that affect people all over. On the other hand, it is used to make people smell and look good. Sometimes, the animals being tested are treated ethically and with respect. Other times, those exact animals are tortured and left to live a life that no one deserves.
