Animal Experimentation is Unethical

 The  use of animals in research and development projects especially for checking the safety of food and drugs. It is used to determine the toxicity, dosing, and efficacy of test drugs before proceeding to humans. There are three types of animal experimentation. Types of animal testing are medical research, dissection, and cosmetic testing.

Ethical or Unethical

In my opinion, Animal experimentation is unethical because it is a cruel and an inhumane way to torture animals. There have been millions of animals that suffered a painful death in the name of research.

 It is Unethical

Animal experimentation has been practiced since ancient times, when the ancient Greeks killed and dissected animals for scientific and religious purposes. Animal testing became an impersonal study on a large group of animals, from rats to dogs to chimpanzees. With centuries, more advanced medicines and scientific breakthroughs. Psychological studies were conducted on monkeys, cats ,dogs etc. Human life was extended and improved but still ,animals were treated as objects, used as tools for humanity’s benefit. Following are the points which show it is unethical:

·      In Medical Research

For many years scientists using animals for experimentation. Some people believe that by using animals we are closer to find the cure of care but when researchers found the cure for  cancer in mice. It did not work in humans. The main reason is that animals and humans are different from each other. Animals don’t suffer from a disease like humans. . It is also stated  by US lab that ninety-two percent out of  100 drugs that passed on animals failed on humans .So after this research , we should find an alternative way for experimentation that would be more reliable .

·       Dissection

Dissection is another form of animal testing where people cut and open animals just to see how their insides work like they are some kind of machine. In schools frogs, cats dogs, rabbits ,insects and many other animals are dissected. They are taken from slaughterhouses, animal shelters ,roads etc. In this animal testing, where is the morality? The fact is that students are cutting another living thing. Animals that are used for experimentation sometimes died or sometimes they are still alive and moaning with pain because formaldehyde, which is an irritating substance, is injected that causes a painful death. In my opinion every living thing like animals has a right to live their natural life.

   Cosmetic  Industry

The cosmetic industry uses animals for the safety of their products. In result ,millions of animals suffer painful deaths. There are many tests that are used by the cosmetic industry. One is an irritancy test in which a liquid or some kind of powdered substance dropped into the eyes of rabbits. As a result of this rabbit's eyes become swollen or sometimes bleed and the rabbits are still alive. After this, the rabbits most probably die within 2 to 3 weeks. There is another kind of test to check those cosmetic products
are safe for humans or not .This test is known as the skin irritancy test. These tests are on rabbits and guinea pigs. This involves shaving the body of animals used chemicals on their skin and covered them with plastic covering. After that they immobilized in restraining devices to prevent them from struggling. This is the worst kind of testing. Just for a new cosmetic product, we give long-lasting pain to animals. Animals have different systems than humans therefore they are not accurate. Scientists torture animals just to feel themselves better is just wrong.

·       On Basis of similarity

We conduct tests on mammals because we think that they are more like us than birds ,insects etc. We conduct psychological testing upon monkeys and chimpanzees because they are mentally like us. The point is  that  if these animals  are like us, we cannot in good conscience test on them. On basis of similarity ,  if they are like us that we can test on them, then they are so like us that we are morally obligated not to test on them. So if they are similar to humans than we should also test products on humans directly but we give pain to animals only.

·       Intentionally Ignore Scientific Information

Science has proved that animals think, experience emotion ,and feel pain. We all heard animals scream when they are used for testing but still arguing against animal sentience is ridiculous. Animal experimentation is impractical and inconclusive.  It tells us little about human bodies and health. Just because a drug works on a rat does not mean it will work on a human; just because a virus kills a mouse does not mean it will kill a human. We hear that a certain chemical causes blindness in rabbits but when this is applied to  humans it does not effect. Similarly, We are told that an experimental cancer drug tested on rats but it has no effect on rats but when this drug is tested on humans it does work.. And, after animal testing, human trials are still required before it can be solidly applied to humans. Therefore using animals for experimentation is a waste of time.

·       Suffering For Animals

Scientists give animals painful suffering by injecting them
with chemicals, diseases, giving them cancer and other injuries in the name of science. After injecting them with chemicals, researchers don’t give painkillers to animals and give them agony for a long period time until they die or be killed. It is cruel to torture animals like this. It is ethically wrong to treat animals like this.

Conclusion

Researchers are doing well in the field of science but how they could justify this cruel behaviour for animals. They also have souls like humans. They feel pain like humans. We do animal experimentation just to beautify ourselves and make ourselves better. But if we see this is ethically wrong to give pain to animals. We progress in the field of science without the use of animals. We should use alternative methods for experimentation.