Should Animal Testing Be Dangerous And Inhumane

Animal Testing

Imagine being locked up in a cage and having no control over anything in your life. You can’t choose what to eat, if you want children, your partner, really anything at all. What if you had to spend your entire life like this. Being alone, poisoned, burned, cut, starved, drowned, blinded, and brain-damaged. This happens to hundreds of animals every day. Animal testing has been going on for decades. But, it needs to stop. Innocent animals are tested on for the sake of human necessities and wants. Animal testing does have some benefits but, it can be done it other ways without harming animals. It is doing more bad than good. There are plenty of reasons why animal testing should not be allowed. Although there are some benefits to

The pain and suffering animals have to go through is horrible. They are locked up in a cage their whole life and will never get to decide anything. They are burned, poisoned, drowned, shocked, and many more painful test. They are also toxicity tested. They receive the test substance daily, seven days a week, for up to two years with no recovery periods (New England Anti-Vivisection, “Harm and Suffering”). Many of the animals are also restrained. The animals don 't suffer from only pain on a daily basis, but they also have severe stress from the day-to-day laboratory life. Animals are put through painful procedures daily and are stressed. There 's no point in putting animals through so much pain if there are alternatives. We can end the suffering of animals and still be able to perform tests with alternatives to benefit human

We cannot rely on animal testing to say something is safe for human use because we are not the same as animals. “Applying information from animal research to humans are inevitable when researchers use animal models to study human diseases,” (New England Anti-Vivisection, “Limitations and Dangers”). Why would you test human diseases on animals if they are different, it’s not reliable. For example, penicillin is poisonous to guinea pigs and aspirin is poisonous to cats, but that is not the case for other animals or humans. Another example is the diet drug Phen-Fen caused no problems in animals, but it toxic to humans. Also, animal experiment results are affected. Their results aren’t very accurate. Since they are so stressed, it alters the results of the experiments.”Stress influences heart rate, pulse, blood pressure, muscular activity, and hormone levels and can modify the normal values of these variables significantly,” (NEAVS). The results from the animals would be very different in a human because they won’t be stressed like the animals are due to what they have to go through. We do not need to test on animals since their results are affected due to stress, and that would not be the case with humans. Even though millions of animals are tested on for cancer research and billions of dollars are spent on it, 95% of cancer drugs tested on animals fail. In fact, cancer has been cured in mice plenty of times but it does not work for