“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” (Mahatma Gandhi). Every day thousands of animals are being burned, poisoned, shocked and killed for the so called ‘benefit’ of human beings but does it really do more good than harm?
You may say that animals are protected by laws and regulations but that isn’t true. In 1966 the Animal Welfare Act was signed in order to get control over the treatment of animals that are being researched on. This act requires animals to be registered when they are being researched on but there is a large flaw in this act. The act does not cover birds, rats and mice; roughly 95% of research is conducted on mice and rats (Animal testing 101).
Animal testing is torture. A great example of how horrible animal testing is an experiment that occurred in 1969 on monkeys to test drug addiction. The animals were trained to inject themselves with a variety of drugs including cocaine, alcohol, crystal meth, morphine, and
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Instead of wasting $3 million dollars per person on the death penalty the prisoner should instead spend the rest of their life as a subject for testing (death penalty info). While waiting for the death sentence, the prisoners are just wasting the states time and tax payer’s money. People may look at this as inhumane but there is a reason that they are facing the death penalty. They might as well contribute to society instead of dying. Other prisoners should be able consent to being tested on, then in return the prisoners would receive compensation; such as gifts, money sent to family or even a shortened prison sentenced, based on the severity of their crime. The method that would be used the patients is called microdosing which is when a small amount of the drug is administered to the patient; thanks to fMRI machines and other imagining techniques, scientists are able to test the long term effects of the