Search form Search. Home About animal testing What is animal testing? Types of animal testing Facts and figures on animal testing Alternatives to animal testing Arguments against animal testing Cruelty Free Science Chemical testing Drug testing Science Publications. Anyone would laugh at the idea of using humans to test potential cures for animal diseases.
Then why not apply the same logic the other way round? At some point, humans may have needed animals for testing, but after so much progress in science, this should not be so.
Everyone should play a part in ending it as it is one of the cruellest, most barbaric, and unnecessary forms of suffering one can subject another being to. Animal testing inflicts much pain on the mute creatures. Many die too. Just because they cannot express their agony through words like us, when toxic stuff is injected into them.
Many are unaware of what really happens to the animals subject to animal testing when their experiments are finished. According to the Humane Society of the United States , a large majority of the animals used in experiments and testing are euthanized, or killed during or after the experiment. The remaining animals left alive often die from the extensive torture caused during the experiment.
The animals who are left alive after studies are rarely adopted out to families or placed into sanctuaries for proper care, leaving them to fend for themselves. Although animal testing is more often than not for the benefit of people, it has proven to produce inaccurate results because the human body and human systems differ from animals.
Experimental animals are forced to go through pain and suffering, violating animal rights, often without benefits for people. According to PETA , the inflammation-blocking agents tested on animals through trials worked for the animals, yet not a single one worked for human patients because the genetic responses between mice and humans were different.
This example of inaccurate animal trials producing no benefits for anyone is illustrative of the many failed studies conducted on suffering animals. Today, we have many alternatives to animal testing. With modern progress, this century now provides new technologies and testing methods to replace animal testing.
In this new century of new and more advanced technology, there are numerous more effective, efficient, and cheaper alternatives to animal testing. Methods of experimentation shown by Cruelty Free International are the use of cell cultures, human tissues, computer models, and volunteer studies. Their decisions are made for them because they cannot vocalize their own preferences and choices.
When humans decide the fate of animals in research environments, the animals' rights are taken away without any thought of their well-being or the quality of their lives. Therefore, animal experimentation should be stopped because it violates the rights of animals.
Next, the pain and suffering that experimental animals are subject to is not worth any possible benefits to humans.
Animals feel pain in many of the same ways that humans do; in fact, their reactions to pain are virtually identical both humans and animals scream, for example.
When animals are used for product toxicity testing or laboratory research, they are subjected to painful and frequently deadly experiments. Two of the most commonly used toxicity tests are the Draize test and the LD50 test, both of which are infamous for the intense pain and suffering they inflect upon experimental animals. In the Draize test the substance or product being tested is placed in the eyes of an animal generally a rabbit is used for this test ; then the animal is monitored for damage to the cornea and other tissues in and near the eye.
This test is intensely painful for the animal, and blindness, scarring, and death are generally the end results. The Draize test has been criticized for being unreliable and a needless waste of animal life. The LD50 test is used to test the dosage of a substance that is necessary to cause death in fifty percent of the animal subjects within a certain amount of time.
To perform this test, the researchers hook the animals up to tubes that pump huge amounts of the test product into their stomachs until they die. This test is extremely painful to the animals because death can take days or even weeks. According to Orlans, the animals suffer from "vomiting, diarrhea, paralysis, convulsion, and internal bleeding.
Since death is the required endpoint, dying animals are not put out of their misery by euthanasia" The precision it purports to provide is an illusion because of uncontrollable biological variables" The use of the Draize test and the LD50 test to examine product toxicity has decreased over the past few years, but these tests have not been eliminated completely.
Thus, because animals are subjected to agonizing pain, suffering and death when they are used in laboratory and cosmetics testing, animal research must be stopped to prevent more waste of animal life. Finally, the testing of products on animals is completely unnecessary because viable alternatives are available.
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