Animal Experiments Should Be Prohibited
Ducduy Tran
Solbridge International School of Business

Animal experiments should be prohibited Nowadays, following the development of society, many environmental implications have also risen, such as air pollution, water pollution, and greenhouse effect…These problems cause a lot of dangerous diseases which can kill people. Scientists are trying hard to discover the treatment for these diseases. In order to achieve that, they have to use several methods, and animal experimentation is one of those. Some people think that, animal experiments give people a lot of benefits. I agree with this opinion, but I think it’s only true in the past because these days, thanks to the development of technology in medicine, animal experiments is now not necessary and should be prohibited for the following reasons. The first reason I object to animal testing is that, animal experiments are unethical. To be more specific, animals were always unconsidered and were seen as unemotional beings so people thought experiments on animal are normal and necessary. However, after doing many research, scientists proved that animals have feelings just like human beings do. From the article “Do Animals Have Emotions? Of Course They Do!” by Marc Bekoff, author of The Emotional Lives of Animals, said that emotions are the presents that our creators gave us, both animals and human have them, thus when we describe the feelings of animals we will no longer use the quotation marks for the words like sad or happy (Bekoff, 2007). Not only up to now people just acknowledge that, in 350 B.C, Aristotle found evidence of emotion in animals. "Some are good-tempered, sluggish, and little prone to ferocity, as the ox; others are quick-tempered, ferocious, and unteachable, as the wild boar," he wrote in The History of Animals (Berlin, 2005). It means they suffer and