Many people have been arguing that it is not ethical to test on animals and that the cruelty involved in these tests is unacceptable. The animal rights movement has also grown to be very powerful, giving awareness and exposure to many different facts about animals' treatment. Some people who support animal testing argue that it is necessary for scientific experimentation because animals have a different sense of sight, smell, and touch than humans. They also claim that if human feelings are violated during an experiment, the results will never be valid.
What is animal testing?
Animal testing can be defined as the use of animals for experimental purposes. These experiments are generally conducted in medical research or scientific investigation. Many people have been arguing that it is not ethical to test on animals and that the cruelty involved in these tests is unacceptable. All around the world, millions of animals are used in various types of experiments. There are different types of experiments, including toxicity and safety tests, preliminary studies on efficacy, and searches for a cure for various human diseases, such as AIDS or cancer. The most common method scientists use to test on animals is vivisection (also called dissection). This is where an animal is cut open, and its internal organs are examined. These organs are often removed so that scientists can use them for further experiments. Vivisection also includes the cutting of the spinal cord. It is common for the vertebral column of an animal to be removed first for scientists to do this type of experiment on another animal. The turning on or off of a part of a nerve or muscle often involves cutting an animal's spinal cord. This can be done using a sharp tool such as scissors, a razor blade, or even a knife. Some animals are killed while under anaesthesia before they have their spinal cords cut; this is referred to as "killing after dissection."
Should animal testing be legal?
People in the United States argue that it is not ethical to test on animals and that the cruelty involved in these tests is unacceptable. In the past, these animals were tested for medical reasons, but lately, more and more experiments have been done on animals for other reasons. Some people who support animal testing argue that it is necessary for scientific experimentation because animals have a different sense of sight, smell, and touch than humans. They also claim that if human feelings are violated during an experiment, the results will never be valid. There have been animal rights activists who have stopped this type of testing by lobbying organisations or holding protests outside laboratories where such experiments occur.
Conclusion
Animal testing, whether done to test the safety of a product or to find a cure for a particular disease, is no substitute for human trials. It has been proved that animals are more predictive than humans in many aspects of medicine, so you cannot say that animals are inferior. Animals are constantly getting mistreated and tortured for their experiments. This means that all animal testing is unethical and should be stopped immediately. Some people argue that because humans were once tested on animals, it means it is acceptable, but why not just leave the animals alone? Animals do not deserve this torture!
In conclusion, animals are brilliant and are more predictive in medical experimentation. The cause of this is that they have a different sense of sight, smell, and touch than humans. Humans are superior to them in many ways, such as 3-D imaging. Animals should not be used for something that can be done so quickly today by technology.
