Animal testing is wrong for various reasons. An animal test is any scientific experiment or test in which a live animal is forced to undergo something that is likely to cause them pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm. Examples of animal testing include: forcing mice and rats to inhale toxic fumes, force-feeding dog’s pesticides, and dripping chemicals into rabbits’ eyes. Animal experiments are not the same as taking your pet to the vet. Innocent animals used in laboratories are deliberately harmed, for a company’s benefit, and are usually killed at the end of the experiment. Everyone should care about animal’s rights because innocent animals are killed every day for no good reason. Some reasons why include, but are not limited to: alternative …show more content…
“Animal experimenters want us to believe that if they gave up their archaic habit, sick children and other disease and accident victims would drop dead in droves. But the most significant trend in modern research in recent years has been the recognition that animals rarely serve as good models for the human body.”(Berlatsky) This quote introduces how animal testing does not contribute to improving human health as once thought. The concept that every major medical advancement is attributed to experiments on animals is simply not true. Animals are very different from human beings and therefore make poor test subjects. Many studies published in medical journals have shown time and again that animal experimenters are often wasting precious lives and resources by trying to infect animals with diseases that they would never normally contract. The Food and Drug Administration reports that 92 out of every 100 drugs that pass animal tests fail in humans. Also, Paul Furlong, Professor of Clinical Neuroimaging at Aston University (UK), states that "it's very hard to create an animal model that even equates closely to what we're trying to achieve in the human." The only reason people are under the misconception that animal experiments help humans is because the media, experimenters, universities and lobbying groups exaggerate the potential of animal experiments to lead to new cures and the role they have played in past …show more content…
Diseases that are artificially injected in animals are never identical to those that naturally occur in human beings and because of this, it is unlikely that animal experiments are reliable. For example, according to former National Cancer Institute Director Dr. Richard Klausner, “We have cured mice of cancer for decades, and it simply didn’t work in humans.” Also, at least 85 HIV/AIDS vaccines have been successful in animal studies, but as of 2015, every single one has failed to protect humans. Many researchers assume that, because a drug works for an animal, it will work in humans, which has shown to have detrimental effects. For example, the 1950s sleeping pill thalidomide, which caused 10,000 babies to be born with severe deformities, was tested on animals prior to its commercial release. Later tests on pregnant mice, rats, guinea pigs, cats, and hamsters did not result in birth defects unless the drug was administered at extremely high doses. Also, animal tests on the arthritis drug Vioxx showed that it had a positive effect on the hearts of mice, yet the drug went on to cause more than 27,000 heart attacks and sudden cardiac deaths before being pulled from the market. Obviously, researchers did not take into consideration that physiological reactions to drugs vary enormously from species to