Reasons Against Animal Testing

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Using animals to test the safety of products and to carry out scientific research has long been a contentious issue for decades. According to Orlans, F. Barbara (1993), “sixty percent of all the experimental animals were used in biomedical research and product-safety testing” (p.62). People seem to have different feelings for animals; many of them likely look upon animals as their soul mate whereas others might view animals as the essential resources for advancing the scientific research. No matter how people perceive the animals, the fact possibly remains that animals are immensely taken for granted to satisfy the desire of human being. This essay will argue that animal testing should be banned in every field including scientific research…show more content…
Animal testing might be one of the strong evidences that reflecting the deprivation of animals’ freedom by human being. For instance, in addition to be treated violently, experimental rats are probably forced to live in stressful condition, continuously experiencing starvation, thirst, pain, injury and diseases. Tom Regan (2001) states that “animals have a basic moral right to respectful treatment” (p.207). Furthermore, animals are more likely to be exploited by research facilities and product companies for their own goods, helping them to advance new sophisticated technology and human welfare. These animals’ disastrous fates are usually controlled by humans because they are not able to utter their own preferences and choices. It is generally believed that, animals and humans are alike in many ways; they both think, feel, act and suffer from pain. Therefore, all animals should probably be endowed with the same respects as humans. Despite the inability of vocalizing their own thoughts, animals should be given protection and recognition. If animals’ rights are believed to exist, then, any experiment which violates the rights of animals should be considered as immoral that any possible benefits to humanity are…show more content…
UCI Office of Research (2005) reports that, “to prevent or alleviate animal suffering, all laboratory animals must be euthanized in a timely manner, either as described in the approved protocol according to established timepoints, or as soon as necessary if established criteria or humane endpoints are reached” (¶4). Nonetheless, the truth is, there is still a major concern of ethics in animal testing. Experimental animals may well be ruthlessly tortured until they eventually die. In the process of the experiment, animals might suffer from electric shock, burn and poison. No experiment, regardless of how painful, is prohibited and analgesic drugs are sometimes not even provided for the experimental animals. American Psychological Association (2002) reports that, “new legislation will ensure laboratory research with rats, mice and birds is excluded from redundant federal regulations that could have hampered biomedical and behavioural research with laboratory animals” (¶1). All these excluded animals such as mice, rats and birds are not protected by the law of animals’ welfare; therefore, experimenters would not even have to provide them with painkillers. However, the lives of animals are solely as valuable as humans’ lives; thus, they do not deserve the cruelty from human
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