On the other hand, animal testing is cruel and inhumane. During animal research, animals are forced into extremely painful experiments. They are subjected to things such as force feeding, forced inhalation, food and water deprivation, prolonged periods of physical restraint, infliction of burns and wounds to study the healing process, and multiple others. One of these painful experiments is called The Draize eye test. The site Pro Con explains how this involves scientists clipping rabbits’ eyelids open in order to pour cosmetic products, such as shampoo, into the eyes of the animals (1).
The Draize test is used in animal testing, a test where scientists get albino rabbits and immobilize them as their eyelids are held open by clips for many days, so they are unable to blink away the product that is being tested. This is to determine if the product will cause irritation or inflammation. The United States allows animals to be burned, shocked, poisoned, isolated, starved, drowned, addicted to drugs, and brain-damaged. Any experiment, no matter how painful and agonizing, it is allowed to do on animals. Pain-killers are not even required!
Would you standby watching if you saw anyone getting tortured? The disadvantage of animal testing is that they are unethical to use for our selfish purposes in products that might be a part of our everyday lives. Animal testing is not the solution to getting the results that we need in our experiments. With this in mind, should animal testing still be permitted for scientific research? I believe strongly that animal testing should not be permitted for research purposes because animals have senses and feeling just like humans, tests on animals show different results on humans due to the fact that they are biologically different, and it has many negative environmental consequences.
Begin your paper with a opening sentence about your topic that catches the reader’s attention. Reference the list on the front for ideas. Animal experimentation is very controversial in today's society due to its advantages and disadvantages it has. Include context: provide the information the reader will need to understand the topic. Vivisectionists claim that animal testing helps advance medical research however anti animal testers strongly believe otherwise.
Animals are subjected to excruciating experiments daily. Countries such as Israel and India have stopped animal testing as well as Britain. “…countless animals are experimented on and then killed…” (Murnaghan 1). Animals are subjected to confined rooms all of their lives, used in painful experiments and then disposed of as if they are an inanimate object.
Bill #2 General Debate Pro- I am in strong support of this bill because animal testing is a dated and cruel method. The anatomic, metabolic, and cellular differences between animals and people make animals poor models for human beings. The entire concept of animal testing is based on the fact that the discoveries found when an innocent animal is tested on can be applied to human beings. Thomas Hartung, Professor of evidence-based toxicology at Johns Hopkins University, argues for alternatives to animal testing because "we are not 70 kg rats.”
Considering Alternative Methods: If you’re still in the camp ‘principally against anything anthropocentric’, then that’s fine. It also means you’re going to consider any animal testing outright wrong, if it’s purpose is to make discoveries for humans. That’s why alternative methods are so important, because they allow us to avoid human extinction – which would cause the extinction of all other animals – without committing the sins of humanity that Maheny talks about. If you’re pro-anthropocentric, but also get pleasure in needlessly slaughtering animals, then allow me to elaborate on just how ‘needless’ this slaughtering really is.
Con For Animal Testing Would you buy something that was tested on a animal? If you would, do you know the dangers and harm the animals face when products get tested on animals? Animal testing is controversial because this issue is going to lead people to having mixed feelings on if cruel to test products on them or not. Drea does not support animal testing because chemicals can hurt the animals even causing them to die. Animal testing costs a lot of money in the U.S. Animal testing can mislead researchers to finding treatments.
Animal Testing: Good or Bad? To ensure success of experimental drugs, testing needs to be done on living things, generally on animals with genes close to humans: rats/mice, cats, dogs, and rabbits are among the animals used in the testing process. Now to operate at maximum efficiency, funding is needed for these labs to produce and distribute and get subjects for the test trials of each drug. Annually, the United States government spends about $14.5 billion per year for these experiments to proceed (Feds spend up to $14.5…).
The topic for today would be that if animal testing should be stopped. I would like to stand with the pro side because animal cruelty is a very serious problem to animal kind today. They can be argued with several reasons such as, it is cruel and inhumane treatment, it can lead to misleading research, and plenty of animal lives are wasted and we do not want to raise it higher. My first argument should be that it is cruel and inhumane acts or treatment.
2.0 Body Content 2.1 Reduction A way of justifying animal testing is to reduce the number of animals involved in animal testing. In 1970s, 5.5 million of various animals including chimpanzees, dogs, mice, rabbits, monkeys etc. are involve in the medical research field as test subjects for various experiments (PETA, 2014). However, some experiments were not beneficial to the development of the medical field but cost over a million dollar. In the United States of America, 16 billion dollars had been used on animal experimentation- 1.9 million dollars are used on the experimenting on heart diseases on dogs conducted by Ohio State University, 5 million dollars were used on obesity experiments conducted by Oregon National Primate Research Centre, while 16 million dollars were used by Harvard University to fund 1200 individual experiments on drug addiction by using monkeys as test subjects. Although animals were sacrificed in the experiments, most experiments did not reach its goal due to flaws causing a waste of life (Grant, 2013; Peta, 2014).
In the United States today, about 26 million animals are used each year for scientific and commercial testing. The topic of animal rights has been a big debate ever since medical researchers and scientists began using animals and their experiments. The main debate is whether or not it is ethical for animals be used for medical research and the rights animals have. The issue is, animals are used research for human benefit and many argue this is inhumane and cruel. In general, the proponents of using animals for medical research argue that it is necessary for improving and saving humans’ lives but are not opposed to finding an alternative that is less controversial.
Hailee Etheridge First negative Animal Testing Should animal testing be banned? Mr. Chairman, honorable judges, worthy opponents, ladies and gentlemen: This is the resolution for today’s debate, resolved: should the government ban all animal testing? The question tends to be a touchy subject throughout the world because of the negativity that comes with testing animals. As the first negative I do agree that animal testing is cruel but without animal testing we would not have a lot of things that we have today.
Throughout time humans have tested many types of things on animals to see if it is safe for humans to use. Today many companies that produce products like shampoo, drugs and many other products test their products on animals before they will sell it to the public. In china it is mandatory for all products to be tested on animals before they reach the public. Throughout recent years animal experimentation has become a very controversial topic. Many people say that animal testing is an evil and cruel thing to do to animals, But many people say that animal testing is a necessary evil because we need to know if products today are safe to use on humans.
More than 100 million animals including cats and dogs, are poisoned, burned, crippled, and abused in U.S. labs each year. No matter how cruel, redundant, or painful an experiment may be, none of them are illegal. Even when valid alternatives to animals are available, the law does not require that they be used. Also, ninety two percent of experimental drugs that are safe on animals fail in human clinical trials because they either do not work or are dangerous. Even though it is cruel to the animals, not always effective, and there are existing alternatives, animal testing is still used around the world every day, but is animal testing necessary?
