Animal testing has been a part of pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and toxicity research for many years. Many innocent animal lives are being taken for the sake of science, when it is unnecessary to do so. Scientists have had the knowledge of human embryonic stem cells for research for years and yet they decide to use sentient […]
Take a close look at your shampoo bottle, or your favorite makeup products that you use on a daily basis. Do you see anything that stands out to you? No, not the sleek and pretty packaging, but the tiny little “cruelty free” label that many people look over. The use of animals in research and […]
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Get startedIn order to enjoy the products that we use every day, each product has to go through a series of tests in order to ensure that it is safe for humans to use. Millions of animals are being tested on every year in medical and cosmetic tests performed by several different industries. These animals are […]
Let’s pretend that someone you know and adore is dying right now. The cause of death would be because the person is ill with no known cure. Whether the illness is something as simple as the measles or small poxs, or a much more complicated disease such as cancer, that person is about to be […]
Nude protests have been occurring all around the world to stand up for those who cannot stand up for themselves. These activists are protesting against animal experimentation and the killing of many innocent animals for their meat and fur. Animal testing has turned into a very controversial topic within the past decade. With new inventions […]
Abolishing animal testing on cosmetics is plausible. In the earlier three years, researchers have created several propelled contrasting possibilities to animal testing techniques which use anthropological blood and simulated skin or computer replicas to test the health of animals. Also, various multinational groups have grasped elective test strategies, diminishing and how taking out their reliance […]
Animal testing is a problem. Sure some of it is necessary for medical advancements, but cosmetic animal testing is not used for medical advancements, and it has no other reasonable uses. 72% of Americans oppose animal testing in cosmetics, and this reveals that America is already against animal testing, meaning that stopping it will not […]
Animal research has been around for ages; it started in Ancient Greece and is still being used in laboratories today. Testing on animals is necessary because it has led to many medical advancements that would otherwise not exist, there is no alternative that can effectively test treatments on a living whole body system and it […]
There is nothing that upsets me more, than people working in companies, factories, laboratories, and even in the comfort of their own homes to use innocent animals to test human products. After it has been proven that in almost all cases, animal testing has no benefit for us as buyers or consumers. Laboratories use animals […]
The controversy of animals use in scientific research has given birth to diverse methods of action throughout the years. Various organizations have been formed to find a solution to this animal cruelty issue. The American Anti-Vivisection Society is a national organization that supports healthy and fair animal-human life relationships and strives to abolish animal vivisection […]
Animal testing is proven to be more common than not and it has come to my attention that most commonly used products do indeed test on animals. The following drug store beauty related companies, according to PETA, do test on animals: Avon Products, Bobbi Brown, Clairol, Clinique, Coach, Crest, Dove, Garnier (L’Oreal), Herbal Essences, M.A.C., […]
Imagine a world where humans are tortured by laboratory scientists, beaten with sharp tools, and abused with lethal drugs. According to the ASPCA, over 100 million animals are burned, paralyzed, and poisoned in a year at US laboratories. Just because animals do not have a voice, it doesn’t mean that scientists can perform experimental, and […]
In recent years, the advancement in science and technology has brought a new awareness to consumers of the beauty industry. Scientists have opened the eyes of consumers, allowing them to see what goes into their cosmetics, how the cosmetics are made, and how the cosmetics could possibly be harmful. Most recently, with the new law […]
Animal testing is the procedure of using non-human animals to control changes that may affect biological systems or behaviors in experiments. Because animals and humans have similar properties, the process of animal testing is done for research to benefit humanity, and for that reason, it is permissible to sacrifice animals since it’s done for a […]
Over 28,000 animals a day are killed because of animal testing, that’s over one hundred and four million every year all around the world. Why is it that its animals are tested on not anything or anyone else and what effects do these tests have? There are so many alternate ways to test cosmetics and […]
Animal experimenters are trying to make us believe that those who they called “Science” in the name of tortured animals old habits once stopped, a lot of sick children and other patients, accident victims will be resigned to die. But in recent years, many important modern studies have shown that experiment animal is not a […]
Animals cannot express their feelings, so it is up to humans to take on this responsibility. The thoughts about the animal rights come up with a big issue regarding the different opinions about their treatment and level of abuse. Those who are against it think that this status of property is devastating to actual protection […]
The arthritis drug Vioxx showed it had a protective effect on the hearts of mice. Yet, 27,000 heart attacks and sudden cardiac deaths happened before the drug was pulled from the market. The use of animals for scientific research is not always accurate and animals lives are abused because of it. Though animals are used […]
Animal abuse and animal cruelty is one of the most violent crimes in America today but not a lot of people talk about it. Animal abuse includes many factors such as, abuse, neglect, terror taunting, and any form of distress upon an animal. Although in most cases animal abuse is physical, there is a factor […]
Imagine a tiny puppy, or small kitten in a laboratory being tested on, or used as bait in a dog fight. Well, this is the reality for many animals today. These instances are both forms of animal abuse. This type of abuse comes in many forms like animal testing, neglect, and fighting. Animal abuse is […]
Imagine seeing animals severely beaten to death, homeless, starving with no food, and living in filth. Unfortunately during this world today more animals and pets have tragically passed away from animal cruelty, causing a decrease in over all population. Animals and pets today only have a sixty-four percent chance of living, which is an ever-growing […]
Conducting biomedical research on animals has been a common practice for centuries, dating back to early 384 BC with famous physician-scientists, Aristotle and Erasistratus executing their own research on animals to develop further in the knowledge of anatomy, physiology, pathology, and even pharmacology. At the time of these studies, information on these subjects were trivial and testing on animals is what helped advance the knowledge we have on animals today.
The testing on animals has been able to save millions of lives, with the extensive research on cows creating the first ever vaccination that helped end smallpox in 1976, then even eliminating polio as an epidemic. Polio was a devastating disease that wrecked the lives of many during the late 1940’s, reaching its peak in the United States in 1952 with well over 21,000 cases of the infection. It was in the 1960’s when a vaccine was formulated and has been eradicated from most of the world today. Similar diseases, typhus, diphtheria, whooping cough, smallpox, and tetanus too have vaccines that are routinely given to children to serve as permanent shield against these infectious diseases.
The understanding we have on mental health has made astonishing development because of animal testing and is helping well the over 7 million people that are living with schizophrenia and bi-polar disorder by prescribing them anti-psychotic medications to help them live normal lives without their mental illness decreasing their quality of life. Abilify, one of the most prescribed drugs in America, was tested on rats, dogs, monkeys, and rabbits to ensure their effectiveness for managing often traumatic symptoms of schizophrenia and bi-polar disorder.
Animal testing is not exclusively for the gain of humans and contributes to the health and hygiene of ordinary pets, with almost two million cases of cancer being diagnosed each year, dogs have played a crucial part of developing cancer treatments for not only humans but the millions of dogs that get diagnosed with cancer each year in the USA. Dogs and Humans are quite similar, with various types of tumors in canines being nearly identical to those in humans. Scientists were able to confirm that some of the genes involved in human cancer are present in that of canines diagnosed as well with the genome mapping of Tasha The Boxer performed by the NHGRI Dog Genome Project team. Sadly, over half of dogs over the age of ten will develop cancer, new medications are currently being tested for those whom surgery isn’t an option. KInavet, an oral antibiotic, has a promising future in treating millions of dogs diagnosed with cancer. The reduces mass cell tumors, and once Klavnet has become a reputable treatment scientist could begin formulating a similar treatment for humans.
Furthermore, the Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) and its corresponding illness feline leukemia virus (FeLV) infection is now capable of being prevented with vaccine. In 1978, a worldwide epidemic of dogs experienced the same symptoms of vomiting, diarrhea, dehydration and even death. This disease, that researchers soon discovered after the outbreak is called canine parvovirus and was petrifyingly deadly to all ages of dogs. This disease was similar to the feline panleukopenia virus, as this virus had a reliable vaccine, scientists were readily able to formulate a vaccine for canine parvovirus. This breakthrough is what halted the rapid spread of the disease in adult canines. These vaccines that help prevent our pets from catching these deadly illnesses are because of the tests conducted on animals.
Animal testing has continuously been questioned for its morality, and if using animals for human gain is ethically right or wrong. The debate has gone on for decades, with those in favor of the testing of animals argued that the information of the human body and the progress we have made a result of these experiments on animals, and without them we wouldn’t be anywhere near as advanced medically as we are now. While those against believe that the pain and abuse some of these animals sustain during these experiments are unjustifiable. The rise of animal protection and rights organizations, more information is available to the public which can often be misleading by leaving out crucial facts or statistics in their arguments.
There are millions of animals currently involved in experiments, but only 4% of these animals are covered by the animal welfare laws, leaving more than 20 million animals that could be abused and or neglected for research. One of the biggest arguments against animal testing is how the animals are treated during these experiments, where most animals die during or after these trials. Several of the tests performed on these animals are cruel and disturbing. Kittens will be purposely blinded, primates have rods implanted into their skulls and are often force fed or exposed to lethal chemicals. These experiments often come back with little to no results. While animals and humans are alike in many ways, our differences are vast. The FDA has an estimate that 92% of drugs that pass any pre-clinical tests, which includes animal experimentation, fail to even touch the market.
