Mice are mice. Dogs are dogs. Humans are humans. This should be simple to understand, yet, we live in a world with such a high amount of people believing that cruel, painful testing on innocent animals will have the same outcome for people. The truth is that 95% of the tests that pass through animals proceed to fail in the human body. And why would that be? The two of us are such different species with different body structures and brain functions; therefore, we aren’t correspondent at all. In all reality, performing these gruesome tests is not worth our time because they aren’t shown to perform the same for humans, additionally, this testing is way more expensive than alternative options, and, finally, animals can’t consent to these tests
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A big part of what we need to take into consideration is the science behind pain in animals compared to humans. Research has shown that “the nature of pain is perhaps more complex in animals”(Nolan). Although animals don’t self-reflect they can still feel sadness, shame, anger, and love. Pain isn’t even the most harmful emotion we are putting these animals through. Fear is more harmful than pain itself (Nolan). With the environments that we are putting these innocent animals into, they have to be scared for their life. It is not just one test that they are going through in their life either. They experience the pain of one test while being naive to the situation. The second and numerous other times that they are tested on is putting them through not only the same pain or even worse pain but they are afraid. As humans, we have the ability to stop the pain from happening because we have the right to say no. Animals have rights too. The Animal Welfare Act was signed into being in 1966 and it is supposed to regulate the tests that are done on animals. However, approximately 95% of the animals that are used are not considered animals by the Animal Welfare Act. This leaves many species unprotected from damaging tests. Some examples are cold-blooded animals, birds, rats, and mice. This act only considers animals to be mostly warm-blooded animals (“What’s wrong”). Another issue with this act is that there is no control over unnecessary experiments. all of these. The Animal Welfare Act isn’t meant to regulate if the tests are causing animals intense pain or suffering (“What’s wrong”). Since these laws aren’t regulating to the actions of people they all continue to perform them without any repercussions. If this act were to be amended it has the potential to become very beneficial to the world of animal testing. We need an act that includes all animals
A big part of what we need to take into consideration is the science behind pain in animals compared to humans. Research has shown that “the nature of pain is perhaps more complex in animals”(Nolan). Although animals don’t self-reflect they can still feel sadness, shame, anger, and love. Pain isn’t even the most harmful emotion we are putting these animals through. Fear is more harmful than pain itself (Nolan). With the environments that we are putting these innocent animals into, they have to be scared for their life. It is not just one test that they are going through in their life either. They experience the pain of one test while being naive to the situation. The second and numerous other times that they are tested on is putting them through not only the same pain or even worse pain but they are afraid. As humans, we have the ability to stop the pain from happening because we have the right to say no. Animals have rights too. The Animal Welfare Act was signed into being in 1966 and it is supposed to regulate the tests that are done on animals. However, approximately 95% of the animals that are used are not considered animals by the Animal Welfare Act. This leaves many species unprotected from damaging tests. Some examples are cold-blooded animals, birds, rats, and mice. This act only considers animals to be mostly warm-blooded animals (“What’s wrong”). Another issue with this act is that there is no control over unnecessary experiments. all of these. The Animal Welfare Act isn’t meant to regulate if the tests are causing animals intense pain or suffering (“What’s wrong”). Since these laws aren’t regulating to the actions of people they all continue to perform them without any repercussions. If this act were to be amended it has the potential to become very beneficial to the world of animal testing. We need an act that includes all animals