Imagine being locked inside a cold dark cage, secluded from everyone else. Every time someone walks by, you don´t whether to scream for help or coward in the corner and hope they don't see you. Imagine being terrified for your life, not knowing if you´ll wake up tomorrow, not knowing if you will be forced into painful testing that could end your life in the blink of an eye. That's what it's like for animals when they are used in animal testing. Just because people can't see animals feelings it doesn't mean they don´t have any. Animals testing should not be allowed because its a from of animal abuse, it's bad science, and there are better alternatives.
To start, animals suffer greatly when used in animal testing. Some animals suffer what would …show more content…
And with the dilemma of if animal testing is okay, other alternatives have popped up. ¨… some alternatives to the use of animal testing include, test tube methods and models, virtual drug trials, computer models, stem cells and genetic testing, MRIs and CT scans, and microdosing.¨ (www.neavs.org) There are so many alternatives to hurting and killing animals that are cheaper, more reliable, and environmentally friendly. For people who support animal testing, their biggest argument is that many life saving cures and treatments involved the use of animals, however those breakthroughs could still have been made without the use of those critters. ¨ Humane Research Australia reports that many discoveries made by non-animal methods were later verified by animal experiments, "giving false credit" to animal use.¨ (www.animal-testing.procon.org) Some discoveries said to have been made using animals may have already been discovered years before without animal testing, like the discovery of insulin. “... Banting and Best are often cited as having discovered insulin through animal experiments in 1922. However... the discovery of insulin dates back to 1788 when an English physician, Thomas Cawley, performed an autopsy on a diabetic." (www.animal-testing.procon.org) The use of animals in medical research and product testing could be non-existent, if we just take an extra sleep to look for the better
To start, animals suffer greatly when used in animal testing. Some animals suffer what would …show more content…
And with the dilemma of if animal testing is okay, other alternatives have popped up. ¨… some alternatives to the use of animal testing include, test tube methods and models, virtual drug trials, computer models, stem cells and genetic testing, MRIs and CT scans, and microdosing.¨ (www.neavs.org) There are so many alternatives to hurting and killing animals that are cheaper, more reliable, and environmentally friendly. For people who support animal testing, their biggest argument is that many life saving cures and treatments involved the use of animals, however those breakthroughs could still have been made without the use of those critters. ¨ Humane Research Australia reports that many discoveries made by non-animal methods were later verified by animal experiments, "giving false credit" to animal use.¨ (www.animal-testing.procon.org) Some discoveries said to have been made using animals may have already been discovered years before without animal testing, like the discovery of insulin. “... Banting and Best are often cited as having discovered insulin through animal experiments in 1922. However... the discovery of insulin dates back to 1788 when an English physician, Thomas Cawley, performed an autopsy on a diabetic." (www.animal-testing.procon.org) The use of animals in medical research and product testing could be non-existent, if we just take an extra sleep to look for the better