Do you think these are good enough reasons convince someone that animal testing is bad?

Question

1. It’s wrong to subject animals to imprisonment, violence, and death—animals are not ours to use for experimentation.

2. Ninety-two out of every 100 drugs that pass animal tests fail in clinical trials in people. Every year in the United States alone, there are more than 100,000 human deaths caused by drugs that were successfully tested on animals.

3. Animals don’t suffer from diseases in the same way that people do. The former head of the U.S. National Cancer Institute summarized the last 25 years of cancer research by admitting that “the history of cancer research has been the history of curing cancer in the mouse. We have cured mice of cancer for decades, and it simply didn’t work in humans ....”

4. Animal studies mislead researchers and waste precious time and resources. Famed primatologist and Harvard professor Richard Wrangham points out: “Every significant advance in the fight against AIDS has come through in vitro work, epidemiology, and studies of human volunteers.

early work with chimpanzees funneled scarce research funds away from more fruitful approaches.”

5. The list of medical conditions and therapies discovered and developed without animals is extensive and includes anesthesia, antisepsis, germ theory, morphine, radium, X-rays, the link between cholesterol and heart disease, the link between smoking and cancer, CAT scans, PET scans, and MRIs.

6. There are more effective research methods, including microdosing, the Hurel biochip, tissue engineering, sophisticated computer modeling, and more.

7. The Animal Welfare Act, the only federal law covering the use of animals in laboratories, doesn’t prevent poorly designed, redundant, or painful experiments. It only deals with housekeeping issues.

8. Three of the most commonly used types of animals in laboratory tests—mice, rats, and birds—are specifically excluded from even the minimum protections of the Animal Welfare Act.

9. Every time that PETA sends an undercover investigator in

into a laboratory, physical abuse and neglect are documented. Animals are yelled at, hit, left to suffer after surgery without anesthetics, repeatedly operated on, crammed into small cages, denied veterinary care, and more.

10. Every minute, 219 animals die in laboratories in the U.S., alone and in pain.

Imagine living locked in a closet without control over any aspect of your life. You can’t choose when and what you eat, how you spend your time, whether you have a partner and children, and—if you do—who that partner is. You can’t even decide when the lights go on and off. Think about spending your entire life like this even though you haven’t committed any crimes. This is what life in a laboratory is like for animals. It is deprivation, isolation, misery, and death.

Medical historians tell us that the majority of true medical breakthroughs have occurred in the clinic, not in the animal lab—the links between the pancreas and diabetes, plaque in the arteries and heart disease,

cigarette smoking and lung cancer, etc. Also, sophisticated alternatives to animal tests, such as computer simulations and cell and tissue cultures, are faster, safer, and less expensive.

(c) PeTA

Convinced me.

I have always thought these aspects are true and convincing.(because they are)

But some of my friends think it's stupid. That's why I asked this...

EXACTLY.

Oh yeah, and with the (c) thing I made it better :3

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Answer 1

Oddly enough, Peta kills more animals every year than any other organization. I really think we need to investigate them as well as their crazy leader, Ingrid Newkirk.

It's sad when the very groups who proclaim to protect animals are the biggest violators.

I love animals, that's why I don't like Peta.

Answer 2

I agree that these reasons *should* be convincing, & am surprised that some of my loved ones still put so much faith in animal testing.
For me, it is more than enough to think of all the creatures that suffer in labs, especially when safe & effective alternatives exist. One company responded to my letter of protest that they 'don't use dogs, cats or primates' in their tests, as if all that matters are traditionally 'cute' animals. As it happens, we have companion rats & mice & we love them as much as our more conventional pets-- even if I didn't particularly like rodents I would not want them to suffer.
What stuns me is that there is ample evidence that these tests are inaccurate & misleading, yet ppl still put faith in them, which is *not* good science. Look how often a new drug is approved as 'safe' b/c animal tests have 'proved its saftey' but the drug is pulled from the market b/c humans are having bad, sometimes fatal, reactions.

Answer 3

I think those are great reasons. I did a paper my freshman year in college on 'legal animal cruelty' also. I had found some interesting sites that had stories of animal studies done by the military including how certain chemicals would affect the skin by pouring them on animals and studying how burns affect people by setting fire to animals. You should read about how Eukanuba and Iams treat their test cats and dogs- purposely inducing kidney disease, force feeding them certain ingredients.

So far I think your paper sounds better than mine did!

Answer 4

who do we test on then? you would have practically no medicines or any chemicals with out it, think about it? are you willing to give everything up? besides have you seen what chimps do to each other in the wild, they hunt other chimps and rip( this is no joke!) their face, genitals, feet and hands off. I'm going to boycott chimps and argue for more testing on them WHO'S WITH ME? oh yeah and PETA( also known as fur nazis) are bad,bad,bad people

Answer 5

Chemicals and drugs need to be tested, there is no doubt about that.
I guess the question remains about how this can be done safely.

Answer 6

I agree,,,,hey i say take all the child molesters rapist that are in prison and test on them they desreve to be tortured