Animal Testing; What do you Think?

Question

We are practicing debates in one of my classes. I am doing animal testing (abolished, affermative*sry...cant spell. Affermative for people who dont know means i want animal testing to be abolished. Can anyone give me some good sites and points about it?

Answer 1

If you are debating against animal testing, the very best place to start, with the most well supported arguments against the practce is P.E.T.A (People for Ethical Treatment of Animals)
Their pages on experimentation begin here:
http://www.peta.org/actioncenter/testing.asp
See also
The Humane Society pages
http://www.hsus.org/animals_in_research/
and
http://www.animaland.org/asp/realissues/testing.asp

And on alternatives
http://www.allforanimals.com/alternatives1.htm

Johns Hopkins has gone so far as to establish a Center dedicated to finding alternative research methods
http://caat.jhsph.edu/

It really is a myth that animal testing in this day and age has any valid benefit to mankind. But promoting that "benefit" premise
and perpetuating the myth is still a great way of getting funding.

Debate - related sites
Downloadable Bioethics committee report on constructive debate about this issue with "fors" and "againsts" covered
http://www.nuffieldbioethics.org/go/ourwork/animalresearch/publication_178.html
Statement against by leading Neuroscientist
http://www.animalaid.org.uk/h/n/NEWS/news_experiments/ALL/1474//
And from Europeans for Medical Progress - solid research on the poor and irrelevant results, and the dangers posed by the practice of testing human drugs & treatments on animals
http://www.curedisease.net/

Good luck with your debate!

Answer 2

Good luck on your debate! This topic has been debated for ages and the sad truth about animal testing is that the animals don't really have much of a say in it. Everything right down to the food you eat, the medicine you use, your shampoo, toothpaste, laundry detergent and soap are made and developed by companies, many of which test their products on our furry friends.

Here are some interesting sites you can check out:
http://www.peta.org
http://www.hsus.org
http://www.aavs.org
http://www.animalactivism.org/resources/online/Cruelty_Free_Shopping_List_29.php
http://www.animal-law.org/
http://www.farmsanctuary.org
http://www.animalrightscoalition.com/
http://www.exploreveg.org/
http://www.animaldefense.com/
AND this one has more links:
http://www.goblackbeauty.com/argroups.html

Answer 3

Animal testing should not be abolished because it is good for the mankind. There should only be proper treatment and limitation of animals that are used for testing.

Answer 4

get passionate
make the other side look bad - make them seem so cold and heartless
animal testing is cruel to animals
its a fact
so get passionate about it - its all in the way you speak
these POOR animals are going through SO much pain all for YOUR vanity
animals should not suffer because YOU (target them) neeeed to test these products on them

Answer 5

Evil! Evil! and most important of EVIL!!!!! Sorry, Scientists,but the cats, dogs, whatever need a loving home not die in a unloved, uncomfortable cage. Poor cats and dogs a cat could have been in a home, named Fluffy, and be loved. Scientist's need to find a better way to keep chemicals safe. MEOW! Signed a Cat lover and dog lover.

Answer 6

I think that if there is another way--and there seems to be for things like cosmetics and so forth--then they shouldn't test on animals. Medical testing often needs to be tested on animals, but not always.

Answer 7

Animal testing is cruel and certainly not right, BUT we can't do human testing... so ... a necessary evil??

Answer 8

If it's not safe for us, it's not safe for them.
Besides, if the inventor is soconfident, they themselves should test it.
It's for humans, not for animals, so why test it on them?