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Animal Testing Cruelty

Animal testing is very cruel. Each year scientists use 17 to 22 million animals for experimentation. Animal Rights extremists have caused up to an estimate of $10 million of damage to U.S. laboratories that conduct experiments on animals. Many people agree that animal testing is very cruel. We should not go on with animal testing.

There are some alternatives, other than using poor, harmless, innocent animals. One is that Medical Research charities comply with the AMRC’s guidelines to only support vivisection when when there is no viable alternatives. Another is cosmetic companies are now using Episkin, a reconstructed human skin that has been approved for use in the testing of cosmetics. In fact, Episkin was also the first complete replacement for animal testing. Also instead of using animals, they can use computer simulations to see if the drug is safe. So many people think that it is better, and safer to use these alternatives.

After the testing, the cruelty continues. Almost all the animals involved in research studies are eventually euthanized (or put to sleep). Animal shelters in most states are allowed to turn over homeless dogs and cats to facilities for experimentation. Minnesota and Oklahoma shelters are required to turn over animals to laboratories upon request. Dogs and cats are sold to laboratories for as little as $15. Sometimes after being in shelters for as short as a day, they have never even been given the chance to find a safe home, and a loving family. Is it illegal anywhere? It is actually illegal in all 50 states of America for stolen animals to be sold or used in research. Currently, 14 states have passed laws making it illegal for animals in shelters to be sold for research. Some of those 14 states include Connecticut, Hawaii, New York, South Carolina, and more. Manystatesinthe U.S. are making animal testing illegal.

Some people think the opposite. Researchers use animals for experiments because animals’ bodies often react in ways that are similar to the ways human bodies react. Researchers also use animals for tests to try to protect the public from dangerous chemicals. I understand that experimentation is an essential part of the scientific method used to gain knowledge, but that doesn’t mean that we need to use animals to do that.

Again, we should not go on with animal testing. We have many alternatives to use instead of using poor innocent animals. You can start helping the animals with little things like exploring the PETA site. Also by using less cosmetics made by animals.

Animal Testing

Scientists are basically killing hundreds of thousands of animals in their testing labs. They cut them open or give them a disease, and usually have two groups given a disease and only one group receives a vaccine. They will burn, shock, poison, and sometimes they get addicted to drugs, and these experimenters are allowed to do so. If you are an animal lover then you should read this, and stop these cruel actions. Scientist should not be testing on so many innocent animals for ridiculous reasons.

Scientist believe they test on animals to find cures for diseases, but about 90% of drugs tested on mice fail in human trials. Not only is that a waste of a lot of money, but all those mice either get injured or even die. Animal testing is described as cruel, mean, and violent. Scientists think that animals don’t have feelings so they believe they can just cut them open or cut off parts of their body. Animal testing is cruel and should not be done so often.

Scientists should not test on so many innocent animals. In the 19th century Louis Pasteur, a French scientist grew deadly germs for a disease called Anthrax. He put it in both groups of animals, and only one group received a vaccine .The first group lived and were healthy. The other group didn’t get a vaccine and they died. Another thing is in September 1984, the news paper “Whole Earth Times” reported that one researcher giggled while working on an animal. He said “It’s a good thing the antivivisectionist will never see this”. There was laughter off-screen. William Robbin, in his “New York Times” report, mentioned the researcher who called his animal subject a “sucker” while looking for brain damage in his “patient”.

So many animals get starved or addicted to drugs. An example is in one situation scientist got monkeys addicted to drugs and some had holes drilled into their skulls to see what the drugs were doing to their brains. Not only just monkeys but other animals get harmed also. Rats are made to suffer seizures. In old fashioned medical training courses, pigs and dogs are cut open and even killed! In some other cases most animals are tortured or suffer. Sheep and pigs have their skin burned off. Rats have their spinal cord crushed, and other mice grow tumors as large as their own bodies. Kittens get purposely blinded. These are just some very few examples of how animals are treated poorly.

Animal experimenters want us to believe if they gave up their old fashioned habit, sick children, other diseases, and accident victims would have no chance of surviving their illness. “Many experiments aren’t painful to animals and therefore are justified”. The only U.S. law governs the use of animals in labs- Animal Welfare Act allows animals to be burned, shocked, poisoned, isolated, starved, forcibly restrained, addicted to drugs, and even have brain damage. When alternative (like painkillers) are to the use of animals are available, the law doesn’t require that they be used-and often aren’t.

Scientist need stop animal testing so much because its cruel, and they test some ridiculous things. You can protest to get rights for these poor innocent animals. These experimenters want us to think that if they don’t test on animals there will be no more cures for diseases, but that’s not true. If you use make up make sure to look at if it says something like Did not use on animals. You can help these poor animals by writing a letter about testing on animals to the government, and these animals there rights that they deserve. Hundreds of thousands of animals are poisoned, shocked, blinded, addicted to drugs, and most of things that are tested on animals kill them. These are some very few examples of why animal testing is wrong and cruel. Scientists should not test on so many animals.