Animal Testing, a cruel and heartless act that people practice. They make animals suffer so much. Cruel experiments with all types of animals, with rats, guinea pigs, dogs, cats, and even chimps. Everyday more and more of these helpless animals are tortured with, experimented with, some unimaginable experiments taking place in these cruel labs. Animal testing, also known as animals experimentation, animal research and in vivo testing, is the use of non-human animals in experiments that seek to control the variables that affect the behavior or biological system under study.
Animals should not be used for product or medical research. Animals pass to many cruelties, they suffer and live a miserable life. NO animal should pass all that suffering just so people make money. Many animals have to eat pesticides! Yes, people they are making animals suffer, not even feeling bad about harming a creature’s life! In case people do not know what pesticides are, they are toxic substances that are made to kill living things. Just imagine the pain these poor animals will be in.
Another disturbing fact about these experiments is that many animals tested cramped in these cages in horrendous labs, is that they have a chance to develop neurotic behaviors. Yes animals can indeed develop these behaviors because of all the stress, sterility, and even boredom. One last fact to help you understand how bad the situation with testing with animals is that there are currently over 100 MILLION experiments with animals. That is roughly 273224 experiments per day! These poor animals are scared, terrified, being tortured, this is why people need to take action.
People should take action now, not later, now because maybe later people will not be able to do something. Animals can still feel the pain, sadness, and confusion even if they are not like us humans. Contrary to popular belief, animals have a lot of their feeling like animals. Animals cannot reason, but that does not mean that they can’t feel pain. In one of the articles I read, it said that animals were like babies. They both cannot reason, but we still care about them and take care of them. If we are extremely over protective with our babies, why not the same with animals?
If that’s not enough, a british psychologist even compared animals to humans and there were a lot of similarities. Richard Ryder wrote in the Guardian in 2005, “Animals scream and writhe like us; their nervous systems are similar and contain the same biochemicals that we know are associated with the experience of pain in ourselves. ”(Richard Ryder The Guardian 2005) Other nasty and horrendous things that animals also have to go through are inhaling toxic fumes. Some animals even have to have to endure the pain of having chemicals poured in their eyes.
Its sad that not a lot of people do things about this subject. There is no reason why people should be using animals for these cruel experiments. Researchers have found out that 90% of drugs tested on animals that aren’t harmful to them are to humans or don’t have any affect on them. (Source 5). 90%! ,then why keep using animals? The testing on these poor animals is pointless! Scientist are just wasting money like it is nothing. If 90% of experiments are useless, then why are there over 100 MILLION experiments taking place in the U. S alone? Source 5)
Why is animal testing still a thing, people are just making innocent creatures suffer! If there is no valid reason to continue testing on animals, if it is only creating more deaths, then why do people still continue? Many people have different standings on animal research. Many people also think that animal research is an amazing practice. They might argue with counter arguments like, If humans never used animal for testing we wouldn’t have cured many illnesses that had a devastating affect on humans. Many medical breakthrough would have never happened, like when scientist found a cure for polio.
If scientist saved so many lives, why would people want to stop animal testing? It heartless that some people do not want to test on animals, do they want people to die? Scientist can go through many more amazing breakthroughs with the help of animals. The medical and scientific field can advance so much more with the help of couple animals. There are about 5 billion rats, so why does it matter that people use a couple? Yes, there have been medical breakthroughs with the help of animals, but that doesn’t mean it will always be okay to do.
Like stated before, 90% of experiments are a total fail! Why should animals die when scientist accomplish nothing? That means that scientist are just being ignorant, and they do not want to say that they have failed on a project. Poor animals are dying because these type of people do not stop after killing some animals, they keep on killing. Maybe animals are needed for some project, but not all for others. For example animals are not needed for cosmetics and other companies like that. For example, LUSH Cosmetics has over 900 stores!
In all those 900 stores none of them use animals to test out their products. They prove that people don’t have to torture animals to be successful. Many people should learn a thing or two from LUSH Cosmetics. Sure, there will always be occasions where animals are needed, like if scientist are really close to curing a disease, but not when its testing something like makeup. Most of the time people test on these poor creatures just to find a way to make more money, and it is really sad that some animals die for people to make money.
In conclusion, Animals should not be used for product or animals research. It is a heartless act that people should not practice. No animal should suffer, and face a cruel death. No animals deserves to be tested on, to be tormented with, and that’s why animal testing should stop. Many people don’t see all the negatives to animal testing, and why it is wrong. That is why people should care and take more interest about the subject. One thing that people should do is boycott any product that is made by a company that takes part in animal research. One at a time people will end these cruel labs.