Pros And Cons Of Animal Testing

Death is what will become of animals if they are inhumanely treated. Instead of treating animals with respect, humans rip these poor defenseless animals from their natural habitats and force them into metal cages to conduct the testing of products for personal pleasure. Animal testing should be eliminated because it violates animals' rights, it causes pain and suffering to the experimental animals, and other means of testing product toxicity are available. Animal testing has been a widely debated subject for many years.Animals in labs are routinely mutilated and subjected to physical and psychological torment every day of their lives. About 1.4 million animals die each year from animal testing(Zurlo). This is because of the harsh ways the

Animals should be free of the cruelty scientists expose them to because they have just as much sentient as humans do. There is little regulation enforced when animal testing is involved. According to an interview with Colin Mackay, professor of Clinical Neuroimaging at Aston University, “The AWA does not cover rats, mice, fish and birds, which comprise around 95% of the animals used in research. The AWA covered 1,134,693 animals used for testing in fiscal year 2010, which leaves around 25 million other animals that are not covered. These animals are especially vulnerable to mistreatment and abuse without the protection of the AWA.” Certainly, there are laws and ethical guidelines, but they’re generally broad enough that it’s easy for those performing the experiments to scoundrel around them. For example, legal tests include burning, poisoning, starving, forced smoking, mutilating, blinding, electrocuting, drowning, and dissecting without painkillers(Orlans). “There is nothing to prevent an experimenter from arbitrary

The anatomic, metabolic, and cellular differences between animals and people make animals poor models for human beings. “It's very hard to create an animal model that even equates closely to what we're trying to achieve in the human(Bishop)." They are often more expensive and require lengthier observations, though, so corporations avoid them to maintain a higher margin of profit. It would be difficult for anyone possessing empathy to justify animal testing simply as a means of maintaining corporate