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Why Is Animal Testing Wrong

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Katherine Goddin

Shea

9 Honors LA

28 January 2016

The Unheard Screams Behind the Creams

About one hundred million animals each year are killed in the U.S. laboratories for curiosity driven experimentation, medical training, chemical, drug, and cosmetic testing. In these laboratories, some are forced to inhale toxic fumes, some have holes drilled into their skulls, and others have their skin burned off, or even their spinal cords compressed. In addition to the inhumane treatment of these experiments, animals are deprived of everything they have and everything that is natural to them. They are isolated from their families, confined to cages, and traumatized day after day. The innocent animals who are unwillingly used in these experiments …show more content…

Peter Singer explains and clarifies why animals should have rights when he writes, “The capacity for suffering is not just another characteristic like the capacity for language or higher mathematics. All animals have the ability to suffer in the same way and to the same degree that humans do. They feel pain, pleasure, fear, frustration, loneliness, and motherly love. Whenever we consider doing something that would interfere with their needs, we are morally obligated to take them into account”(singer 2). The significance of this passage is to explain that even though animals can not speak to us, and tell us that they are hurting, doesn’t mean we can continue to abuse them and conduct inhumane tests on them. This passage shows us that animals rights need to be taken into consideration before we derive them of their basic rights. Animals should be allowed rights, especially when they are being cruelly tested for things that don’t even benefit humans. The Royal Journal of Medicine clarifies this, “Most experiments on animals are not relevant to human health, they do not contribute meaningfully to medical advances, and many are undertaken simply out of curiosity and do not even pretend to hold promise for curing illnesses”( the royal journal of medicine). Animal testing for useful information is a bad thing in itself; however, cruelly testing animals for just one's own curiosity is unacceptable. This information supports why animals need rights, so they don’t have to be put through such cruel

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