- *Animal testing is widely used to develop new medicines
and to test the safety of other products.
- *Many of these experiments cause pain to the animals
involved or reduced their quality of life in other ways.
*The conflict between pros and cons is if animal testing is
morally wrong.
*Is it worth causing animals to suffer, then experimenting on
animals, and produce serious moral problems?
- *Animal experimenters agree that it is wrong to use
animals if alternative testing methods would produce equally valid results.
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Treatment of the animals:
- *Animals are subjected to experiments that can include everything
from testing new drugs to infecting with diseases, poisoning for toxicity,
testing, burning skin, causing brain damage, implanting electrodes into the
brain, and blinding.
- *Can include protocols that cause severe suffering such
as long-term social isolation, electric shocks, withholding of food and water,
or repeated breeding and separating infants from mothers.
- *Animals used in chronic toxicity receive the test
substances daily, seven days a week, for up to two years with no recovery
periods.
- *Most animals die before the end of the study.
- *Animals who survive their use in research, and testing
can be killed after the study is completed.
*Most common companies that use animal testing are beauty companies testing out make-up and fragrances.
- *Think before you use a make-up and/or a fragrance about how many animals had to suffer before you were aloud to go out and have a good time wearing the product.
*The conflict between pros and cons is if animal testing is morally wrong.
*Is it worth causing animals to suffer, then experimenting on animals, and produce serious moral problems?
- *Animal experimenters agree that it is wrong to use
animals if alternative testing methods would produce equally valid results.
- *
Treatment of the animals:
- *Animals are subjected to experiments that can include everything
from testing new drugs to infecting with diseases, poisoning for toxicity,
testing, burning skin, causing brain damage, implanting electrodes into the
brain, and blinding.
- *Can include protocols that cause severe suffering such
as long-term social isolation, electric shocks, withholding of food and water,
or repeated breeding and separating infants from mothers.
- *Animals used in chronic toxicity receive the test
substances daily, seven days a week, for up to two years with no recovery
periods.
- *Most animals die before the end of the study.
- *Animals who survive their use in research, and testing
can be killed after the study is completed.
*Most common companies that use animal testing are beauty companies testing out make-up and fragrances. - *Think before you use a make-up and/or a fragrance about how many animals had to suffer before you were aloud to go out and have a good time wearing the product.
- *Animals are subjected to experiments that can include everything
from testing new drugs to infecting with diseases, poisoning for toxicity,
testing, burning skin, causing brain damage, implanting electrodes into the
brain, and blinding.
*Below is a video containing more facts about Animal Testing and the debate that goes on currently.
Credible Sources:
Animal Experimentation. (n.d.). Retrieved June 2, 2015, from http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/animals/using/experiments_1.shtml
Harm and Suffering | Animal Use in Research. (n.d.). Retrieved June 2, 2015, from http://www.neavs.org/research/harm-suffering