Abolish Animal Testing
For the past 150 years, animal experimentation has been used to learn more about animals, and more controversially, to find out if certain drugs or products can be used safely on human beings. In recent years, with more knowledge of what actually takes place in the laboratories and the staggering number of animals used annually world wide (fifty million in 2007), the practice of animal experimentation is becoming more disturbing and unethical to many animals rights activists and many ordinary people around the world. Issues are being brought up such as the morality of testing for toxicity and poisoning animals, applying the discovered data to human beings, harming or even killing animals to market less important products such as cosmetics, and if it is possible to discover new alternatives to animal research. People are becoming more and more knowledgeable on the issue each year, and it is important that those ideas do not spread from the laboratories to the realm of society in order to maintain a non-violent environment. It is our responsibility as humans to respect all forms of life and stand up for what is morally correct. Animals and humans are two different species that react differently from one another and therefore it is inaccurate and unethical to attempt discoveries by experimenting on animals, and the practice should be terminated.
Many scientists, comprising the majority of my critics, will argue that breakthroughs in the medicine would not be possible without animal testing, and wonder if the progress of cancer and AIDS research would be hindered if animal testing becomes illegal. They admit that some tests are painful to animals, but argue that it is more inhumane to test drugs on human beings first, and disagree that alternatives exist. Until technology becomes advanced enough to the point where animal testing will not be necessary, is when scientists agree they will stop. They feel people should not be against animal...