Why Is Animal Testing Controversial

Animal Testing Controversy In Australia, Monash University carried out an experiment testing the preservability of deceased patients’ hearts waiting for organ transplants. However, the medium being tested was not a human heart. The test included twelve greyhound dogs who were first suffocated, then had their hearts taken out, put back in, and revived. The final step of the experiment included euthanizing each greyhound. The definition of euthanize is, “to put an animal to death humanely,” which simply means kindly and compassionately. How ironic it is, to put a dog to death “compassionately” after cruel torture of your own doing. Helen Marston said, “The experiment was unnecessarily cruel to the dogs because they were effectively killed twice.”

The way animals are treated in labs is unnecessary and cruel. In an article called, “Animal Testing is Bad Science,” the Animal Welfare Act is mentioned; “It allows animals to be burned, shocked, poisoned, isolated, starved, forcibly restrained, addicted to drugs, and brain-damaged.” In that same article, it explains that painkillers are not required to be used. Scientists are demeaning the value of innocent animal lives, using them as test subjects, and forgetting they have a nervous system and brain that feels pain the same as you and I. Fortunately, the following recent discovery has saved millions of animals’ lives. From “Breakthroughs That Might Mean the End of Animal Testing,” I learned of a substitute for animals in the lab. In the article, scientists created “Silico Modelling.” Although machines may never function like a rat, computer simulation has had success in testing diseases, drugs, and chemicals. Another replacement for live animals was discovered, which saved “1,000 rats and 100 dogs,” the same article proudly claims. Through the chemosynthetic liver, scientists were able to discover a harmful metabolite that saved millions of dollars and proportionate research. These devices are an effective way to test because they are completely harmless. Complex algorithms work on each substance instead of the substance working on a tortured animal who would never stereotypically need the substance. “Animal Testing Is Bad Science” says, “Animal experimenters are trying to infect animals with diseases they would never normally contract.” Why infect their bodies with a disease something nature would never put them through? Although animals and humans have a similar body structure, they are by no means identical. The same article says, “Animals rarely serve as good models for the human body.” Knowing computer simulators can complete the task thoroughly without harming an animal,