Animals shouldn't be used for testing

By Dantone, Oak Lawn, IL

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Imagine not having a choice and being used for testing without having a say; for everyone
this seems like a horrible nightmare but for animals this nightmare is reality. Animals should
not be used for testing. They don’t have a voice so they have no way of saying no and testing
on animals is wrong in every way possible. This is unfair to the animals because they don’t
have a choice. Although animal testing is wrong, it is a good way to make sure the product
research is safe before retailing it and letting people use it. Animal testing should not be used
because animals have no way of saying no and it is wrong is every way.

Animal testing is wrong because animals can’t say no. What if you weren’t able to say no
about being tested on? That’s how animals feel because they have no voice. For example,
animals are being taken advantage of. Animals can’t talk so the decision on whether or not to
be tested on is already made for them. Animals don’t even get to decide things that are being
done to them. As said in an article, “Animals are routinely cut open, poisoned and put into
cages for weeks, month, or even year” (Ocean Lu Blog). Animals don’t deserve to have all of
these things done to them. Animals also have no say in what gets done to them. Sometimes
animals get things that don’t belong in their bodies put into them just to see how they react.
They don’t have a say in whether or not they can have these things put into them. As said in
an article, “Some animals are even given diseases to see whether a new drug will work or
whether it has side effects” (Ocean Lu Blog). Animal testing is wrong because animals have
no say and it isn’t fair to them.
Animal testing isn’t fair to the animals because it is wrong in every way possible. For
example, testing on animals is abusing an animal. No one likes to be abused so just because
an animal isn’t a human doesn’t give people a right to abuse them. As said in an article,
“Humans do not have a right to use animals” (Lin). Think about if the shoe was on the other
foot. If animals were testing and abusing humans, humans would try and revolt. Animals
don’t have that option. Also, animals can die because of the testing that’s brought upon them.
Being tested and dying from it is completely wrong. As said in an article, “I find it appalling
that five baboons died under the “care” of researchers while at the center” (Hudson). Animals
being killed is wrong is every way possible and this killing needs to stop.

Animal testing is a good way to make sure products can be used on a person daily. By testing
animals, everyone knows whether or not the product is safe to give out to people. As said in
an article, “Animals tests are a must before products coming into markets” (Ocean Lu Blog).
To prevent humans from getting sick or dying, testing the product on animals tells
researchers if the product is able to be used on humans. It also tells researchers if they need to
fix something or change it to make the product better. Also, cures for diseases can be found
by testing on animals. As said is an article, “The cure for diseases were found by testing on
animals” (Lin). Researchers can find the cure for different diseases by testing on animals.
Finding the cure for diseases can help everyone in the long run because people will have a
cure. Animal testing can help people by giving them cures and making sure that ever product
is safe to use.

Animal testing should not be done because animals don’t have a choice and it is wrong. This
is not fair to animals and they are being abused. Also, animals are being taken advantage of
and since they don’t have a voice they can’t say no. Although animals are being taken
advantage of, they can be used to find cures for different diseases that people may have. Also,
animals can make sure that all products are safe before being put on the market. To sum
everything up, animals should not be tested on. It is morally wrong and not fair to the
animals. They don’t deserve to be taken advantage of; how would you feel if this happened to
you?

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Iftika Rahmi Fakhrunnisa

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Article : Animal shouldn’t be used for testing by Oak Lawn Dantone

There are so many diseases that exist in the world. Starting from mild to severe diseases such
as influenza to HIV. Prior to the detection of drugs, most of the people who suffer from the
disease leads on to death. This makes its own anxieties about the survival of human life. For
it for over a hundred years, people almost every day doing medical breakthroughs are
expected to be useful for human survival. In doing human experiments need help from other
living beings, especially animals. Why? Because animals closely related to humans that
would be facilitate the process of the experiment. As a result of human and animal health has
been a direct result of research using animals. Vaccines, drugs, food and cosmetics are
examples of products through animal testing process first. Of course the uses of animals in
research reaping a lot of controversy. However, the use of animals in research is essential for
the development of new methods and more effective to diagnose and treat diseases that affect
humans and animals itself.

More than 26 million animals are used for animal testing in the US in 2010 (Thalidomide,
2013 , para. 5) and this number increases with the increase in the number of companies that
require animal testing in trying products. The animal testing it has enabled the development
of numerous live-saving treatments for both humans and animals, that there is no alternative
method for researching a complete living organism. Although there is a presumption that
such criticism is unfair, heartless, and people just want to take advantage of the helplessness
of animals, animal testing is essential for human survival. Surely we would like to see our
descendants stay healthy, would not we?

Animal testing is still necessary to advance scientific understanding. Add to scientific

knowledge through basic biological research to help us understand how living things work,
and to apply that understanding to the benefit of humans and animals. Animal studies are an
important part of this research process. Many basic cell processes the same in all animals, and
animals such as the human body. To treat the disease, doctors and scientists must understand
how the healthy body works. This, in turn, led to an understanding of what happens to the
body when we get sick and how this can be put right. So later we can develop and provide
better treatments for the same disease that we try first on animals. And also we can reducing
the amount of living that. After all we can conclude that animal testing is a way to protect
humans, animals and also eniviroment.

Surely the uses of animals in experiments a lot of controversy. Either on the way they were
treated or about the equalization of their rights. According to Hudson he discovered the
existence mistreat which caused the death of over 5 baboons under the care of the researchers
when he was in study centers and also they were given the disease to see the changes and the
effectiveness of a drug(Dantone,2015, para 2 and 3). Actually we can’t only look up to the
one resources just like one study center but we have to see another study center. In this case
the author seems do not know how strict oversight of the conduct animal testing laboratory.
Which companies are violated then they shall be fined and demands the removal of a
production license by the government. So how exactly the mechanism in animal testing? First
there are the criteria by which animals do animal testing or not that animals used for
experiments is not an animal that can live a long and difficult to breed. On the contrary the
criterias of animals used is short-lived to have a high reproductive rate and generate the
number of children that much anyway. For example mice, monkeys and cats. Animals to be
used for an experiment first conducted medical tests it is intended to minimize the error in the
experiment because researchers are not allowed to waste the number of animals used. In
addition to the animal health tests are also treated well like he was the original habitat, the
animal should be able to run, jump, communicate with each other, and ran well. For that
laboratory provides a very spacious place for those animals. To get good test results.

Although the renewable technologies offer us to not have to use animals for experiments such
as tissue culture or even organ, there are so many diseases that we can’t test simply by
relying on a pile of tissues or organs. The complexity of the human body makes us need to
substitute for it all. We need a mechanism to test the whole of the disease for example such as
polio, which is where the development of the virus will continue to rise along with immunity
or susceptibility to vaccine. Animals used must have a high level of compatibility with
human DNA. Especially with regard to the healing of an illness, the researchers can conduct
experiments, when this is the plague that will threaten human existence. Thus it is necessary
to do regular research on the matters.

Animal testing is an important thing to be done by humans to sustain its species and other
species that would in doing experiments we must remain committed to the ethical principles
of biology and also the rules of the government. There are a lot of diseases that sucessfully
reduce such as polio, the number of cases have reduce to 99 % in the world not only in one
region.( Andreson,2015, para. 24). So we can conclude that human still need animal for their
lives and anothe lives too. Because it does not make sense to sacrifice the future of human
health and well-being by not using animals in research today. In fact, it would be immoral
and selfish for not using animals in research today, given the dangers that can be obtained for
future generations if such research is stopped.

Works Cited

Andreson,Dave. “Top 10 Reasons Why Animal Testing is Necessary” ListLand:n.pag. Web.

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Why Animal are Used. Animal Research.info,2014. Web. 20 November 2016.

Background of the Animal Testing Issue. Procon.org,2016. Web. 20 November 2016.