The Pros And Cons Of Animal Testing

Over 100 million animals are burned, crippled, poisoned, and abused in U.S. labs every year? According to The Humane Society, registration of a single pesticide requires more than 50 experiments and the use of as many as 12,000 animals. U.S. law allows animals to be burned, shocked, poisoned, isolated, starved, drowned, addicted to drugs, and brain-damaged without painkillers being present. Animals have no say in any of this; we could be testing on inanimate objects that wouldn’t be hurt in any way. Despite all the information that doctors have found from animal testing it's still a horrendous process and it should be banned, it shouldn’t be allowed in the U.S. because it's cruel and unusual punishment and we already know of safer alternatives

In tests of potential carcinogens, subjects are given a substance every day for 2 years. Other tests involve killing pregnant animals and testing their fetuses. (11 Facts About Animal Testing) Many of the procedures that doctors use on the animals are very cruel and seem unreasonable. For identification the animals are required have their ears notched or their tails clipped. “Common animal procedures include food and water deprivation, infliction of burns and other injuries to study healing and killing by carbon dioxide asphyxiation, neck breaking, decapitation or other means.” (About Animal

Instead it can be due to conservatism within the scientific establishment – it is easier and more comfortable to simply do what has always been done.” (Alternatives to Animal Testing) Experiment results on animals can be effortlessly compared to earlier tests on animals to give confidence to scientists. Testing on animals is effective and we get the appropriate information but we could do it faster, cheaper, and without harming anyone or anything. With the increasing sophistication of computers, the ability to ‘model’ or replicate aspects of the human body is ever more probable. Computer models of the heart, lungs, kidneys, skin, digestive and musculoskeletal systems already exist. They can be used to conduct virtual experiments based on existing information and mathematical statistics. (Alternatives to Animal testing) Rapid advances in technology have allowed for the development of scanning machines and recording techniques that can be used to carefully study human volunteers. Approximately every type of human and animal cell can be grown in the laboratory. Scientists have even managed to coax cells to grow into 3D structures, such as miniature human organs, which can provide a more lifelike way to test new therapies. Cell cultures have been central to key developments in areas such as cancers, kidney disease and AIDS, and are routinely used in chemical safety testing, vaccine production and drug