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Testing on animals is morally wrong in many ways. Not only is it torture for them, animals are breathing, living beings and it is just like testing on helpless children. To begin, testing on animals is simply torture for them, like pouring shampoo in their eyes. Being a lab animal means being forcefully fed poison that are said to be harmful to human but in a dose much stronger. There are video clips that prove this, as one video is shown dogs being forcefully fed pesticide just to see how toxic it is. Additionally, animals are living beings with feelings and emotions. Animals are proven to be intelligent beings that can understand humans and feel pain and suffering. For lab animals, being tested on daily, and feeling the pain & suffering is simply just like abusing them! How would you feel if your beloved pet is being abused daily by some unknown stranger? In other words, testing on animals is just like testing acids on a baby! But even worse, since they cannot scream and kick as they are being held by equipments. Animals are like children that needs the love and caring they get from a parent. Testing on these poor animals is just wrong as they can only silently cry in pain with the treatment they are receiving daily as test subjects. Looking into an animal’s eyes, just how can you stand to watch them being tested on when you know that they have feelings and are being tortured by those experiments…
Animals are different than humans genetically and have a different chemical makeup, testing on animals give inaccurate results. Effect of drugs differs from specie to species and that cosmetic & drugs meant for human should be tested on humans. No doubt, that animal is different from humans. The reaction you get from testing are inaccurate as they cannot tell you the result of the experiment. The results are different for both animals and humans. Drugs such as the Thalidomide that were deemed safe from testing on animals ended with disastrous results. Thalidomide drugs are drugs that women used to take to get rid of morning sickness; those drugs were previously tested on animals to be deemed safe, but ended up causing babies being born abnormal. Pursuing this further, animals are totally different than humans. Even by testing on animals the result will be inaccurate in more than one way. An example of this is a drug called TGN1412, which was tested on monkeys in a much higher dose that caused no ill-effect before being tested on humans, which nearly killed them and left all of them with permanent health problems. With different genetic and chemical build up, different drugs will cause different effect on different species. Such as penicillin killing guinea pigs but has no effect on rabbits, aspirin causes death to cats and birth defects to dogs, monkeys, mice and guinea pig. Additionally, cosmetics and drugs for humans should be tested on humans for more accurate results rather than animals. Many people will think that if we don’t test on animals, we will have to test on humans instead. But in reality, humans are already being tested on after the case of thalidomide back in the 50’s that were supposed to combat morning sickness but caused abnormities in unborn fetus. Products for human should be tested on volunteers, which offer their body in hope to find new cures, or criminals with life sentence for accurate results that are reliable. In many cases, because animals are different specie than human, so the results they give are inaccurate 9 out of 10 times. So the most effective way would be testing on humans rather than animals.
Animals that are tested on have no voice in all this and live a cruel life as objects that are bred just to be tested on. Having to suffer pain and injuries and being treated like nothing more than an object to be thrown away when useless. To start off, a life that is bred just to be used as a testing subject in the future is no life at all. There are many breeders that breed animals for animal testing in the United States called ‘Puppy mills’. There are even states such as Oklahoma that hand over homeless animals to laboratories upon request. It is a cruel fate how animals from breeding dealers or homeless animals that had stayed at a shelter for little as a day are given to laboratories without a chance to find a loving and caring family. Just imagine your beloved child or pet had to deal with such a cruel fate when they are still innocent and unknown of what love is. What more, is that laboratories are said to treat the lab animals as humanely as possible by reducing pain and are killed as fast as possible, is simply untrue. There is a law in the U.S that allows lab animals to be burned, shocked, poisoned, starved and even addicted to drugs. Animals also suffer nonetheless just by being a lab animal. They suffer from being forcefully injured or exposed to diseases they wouldn’t usually get. Overall, as specie with a greater intelligence, it should be our duty to look after other animals and not treating them like tools that produce data. What we are doing would be the same as treating the Blacks, Native Americans, Asians and even Jews as less human in the past. Animals have intelligence but, some would depend on humans as a child would depend on a mother. We should be treating animals as a living being not just an object without emotions that can be discarded anytime.
Animals may not be able to talk but, they could reason, feel pain and suffering just like humans can. For those who think that animals are inferior to us humans, it just the same as how our ancestors in the past thought Jews, Blacks, and Natives are all inferior to the white or in the case of WWII the Aryans.
Sources:http://www.four-paws.us/us/home/campaigns/animal-testing-for-cosmetics/?gclid=CLiP_7idyrUCFYZcMgodf38A8Q
http://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-experimentation/animal-testing-bad-science.aspx
http://www.peta.org/b/thepetafiles/archive/2011/05/11/top-five-reasons-to-stop-animal-testing.aspx
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