Animal testing

scientists with the help of animal testing, we’ve gained access to many different kinds of medicine and antibiotics. Animal testing has been used for years to improve our lives, but many people believe it is cruel and inhumane. These people are commonly known as animal rights activists, but they’ve also been called antivivisectionists. Vivisection literally means “the dissection or cutting of a live animal”. Animal rights activist use the term to refer to all kinds of animal experimentation,…

Malachi Fox Kristy Wooten English 112 – 802 October 15, 2016 Animal Testing: An Annotated Bibliography While browsing Youtube one day, I came across a video from “Veritasium” about research being done in Switzerland to help paralyzed rats walk again. They would intentionally cut the rat’s spine to prevent brain signals from reaching the legs and then try to get them to walk again. The researchers discovered that the nerves in the rat’s spine could heal themselves if the rat was motivated to…

Animal testing has been a part of our society since the early 1900s. And it appears to me, that not until around 40 years ago or so, people began to realize that testing animals was inhumane on many different levels. But because we are the human beings that we are, we still try to shy away from a lot of the negative consequences of animal testing. It is easier for us to push aside that which is bad and try only to look at the positive aspects. Yet, in my opinion, the cons outweigh the pros.…

The use of animal testing can be dated back all the way to the 17th century. Over the 19th and 20th century, medical science expanded and got more advanced. So much to where the use of animal testing got extremely popular. Animals played a key role in almost all medical advances. The first time animal testing was introduced was with Moorish Spain. Moorish did experimental testing on animals with surgical equipment and procedures, before applying them to human patients. He wanted to make sure…

The True Pain Of Safety Over many continents and through many time periods animal testing has had a strong presence in science. Many places and companies today have discontinued the use of animals due to its, at times, extremely inhumane practice. Though without the use of animals, many important discoveries, procedures, and vaccines wouldn’t have been found. Animal testing, though some has been found to be cruel, is a helpful tool for future discoveries, and should be continued today…

Dillon Haynes Mrs. Mable Literature 04 May 2017 The Improper Use of Animals 94% of drugs that pass animal tests fail in human clinical trials. According to neurologist Aysha Akhtar, over 100 stroke drugs that were effective when tested on animals have failed in humans. Animals are poor models for human beings because of their cellular differences and can cause major problems. Based on research and evidence, testing on animals is cruel and should be brought to the attention of everyone. Thomas…

Is animal testing in medical research absolutely necessary? Roughly 100 million animals ranging from rats to puppies, are burned, poked, and prodded every year in labs. under the law, no experiment on animals is illegal, no matter how cruel, irrelevant to human health, redundant or painful it might be. So who’s stopping them from doing something incredibly inhumane? Animals deserve the same rights and security that humans have, considering we would unanimously oppose to humans being abused in a…

purchase products tested on animals. How could someone say they are an ethical person when they are doing unethical things?…

billion dollars a year. But, by buying these products you may be paying for the torture and mutilation of animals. There is a conspiracy going on within the companies to hide the truth behind all these new products and the government has mostly turned their back to the issues. Beginning with a brief history of animal testing.…

Since the fifteenth century, animal testing been utilized for medical research, but did not become prevalent until the 1800’s. At this time is when people started to protect the animals, claiming that they had feelings and that it was immoral to continue testing on them. Today, animal testing is a very controversial topic with dozens of stances on what is acceptable and what is not. Animal research has helped us as humans make huge medical advances. Not only in the medical field but in…