Animal Testing
Essay by 24 • December 18, 2010 • 1,081 Words (5 Pages) • 1,631 Views
Introduction
As many as 115 million animals are experimented on and killed in laboratories in the U.S. every
year. The taxpayers and consumers pay for such testing as pumping chemicals into rats'
stomachs, hacking muscle tissue from dogs' thighs and putting baby monkeys in isolation
chambers far from their mothers. There is no accurate count on the number of animals killed
every year because experimenters and the government have decided that mice and rats and
certain other animals don't even be counted. Research and testing of animals such has
chimpanzees, dogs, rats', andother such animals has determined that animals do need love,
affection, and families . However, they are constantly being exposed to unnecessary stress
through animal testing.
What the Animals are used for
Around the world, animals are used to test products ranging from shampoo to new cancer drugs.
Almost every medical treatment has been tested on animals. Animals were also used to develop
anesthetics which is used to prevent human pain and suffering during surgery. Manufacturers that
seek to market new products like cosmetics, find that it is necessary to establish safe products so
they test on animals.
How they spend their Time
Animals in laboratories live their lives locked inside a cage without any control over their life.
They can't choose when or what they eat, how they will spend their time, whether or not they
will have a mating partner or young and who will it be. They spend their entire life like this, even
though they have committed
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no crime. This is how animals spend their lives in laboratories.
How chimpanzees live in the wild/Laboratories
Chimpanzees in their natural habitat, are never separated from their families and troops. They
spend hours together every day grooming each other and making soft nest for sleeping at night.
Chimpanzees are loving and protective parents and the babies live close to their mothers for
many years. In the labs, chimpanzees are caged alone. They have no families, no companions, no
grooming and no nest. They are only cold hard steel bars and loneliness that will go on for many
years. Most of the chimpanzees sink into depression and they eventually lose their minds.
Dogs and cats are deprived of exercise, affection and the homes that they long for with families
to care for them. Rabbits have no room to leap.
Diseases
Animals are infected with diseases that they would never normally contact. Tiny mice grow
tumors as large as their bodies, kittens are purposely blinded, rats' are made to suffer seizures.
Experimenters perform surgeries on animals, implant wires in their brains, crush their spines and
much more. Think of what it would be like for a human to go through this. Then they get
dumped back into to a cageusually without any pain killers. I feel that there is too many unhappy
animals inside these laboratories.
Why do they make them suffer ?
Why would anyone make hundreds or thousands of animals suffer? Nearly all of the scientists
who do research on animals are doing it because they hope that making a few experiences painful
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now will help prevent many from feeling pain later. In other words, they hope that a little pain
now will prevent a lot of pain later. There is not always little pain when these animals are being
tested on. Does animal testing work?
Animal testing helped to develop vaccines against diseases like rabies, measles, and T.B. But
animals
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