Though it has been awhile since my Psychology class discussed the effects of animal testing, the images and stories I heard still haunt my dreams and challenge everything I ever thought was morally correct.
Cosmetic companies know that animal testing is not accurate, yet they continue to pour products in rabbits' eyes just to see what the reaction is.
Alright, genuises what do you think is going to happen? The rabbits will jump on you and eat your face off? No, animals have unheard voices, so they just sit there and try to struggle while their eyes swell up with pus and tear up,trying to rid the burning chemical.
It amazes me: we only concern ourselves with what hurts a human being, since we think we are superior over every living thing. But we forget that we are not the only ones who can feel and love. So we continue to starve them, conduct absurd experiments on them, and only get emotional when the "results" are not revelant to human beings' bodies. Humans and animals may be built alike, but when it comes to it...WE ARE NOT! What may work on a animal may not work on a person. So, solution: only test on people who are willing to be tested on (since they can reject the experiment but animals are given no choice) or go test on death row inmates. Unless we think that the rule of C.U.P.(cruel unusual punishment) only applies to people.*IT DOESN'T!
Dr. Charles Mayo said: "I abhor vivisection. It should at least be curbed. Better, it should be abolished. I know of no achievement through vivisection, no scientific discovery, that could not have been obtained without such barbarism and cruelty. The whole thing is evil."
1.Bass, Robert Ph.D. What Does Animal Welfare Really Mean?
Cosmetic companies hold down little rabbits in vices and spray the cosmetics into their eyes to see if it causes, or could cause, redness, stinging, or even blindness! They also have baboons strapped down with their heads in vices to do certain tests on them.
2.Moetzler, Filip G.B. Animal Tesing and Politics
Pharmaceutical companies use animals to produce drugs and health supplements as well. It was estimated by a recently carried research in the United Kingdom that 2.5 million animals are used each year for medical researches, and please be so kind to notice that these estimates do not include rats, mice, fish, and farm animals.
This means that 90 % of all research animals are not included in this horrifying statistic, which could be compared to the number of people killed in the First and Second World Wars. Too many animals are being tested and they do not even need to use animals for these tests – in several cases, computer simulations could be used instead.
3.Moetzler, Filip G.B. Animal Tesing and Politics
One final reason to defend animal rights is that animal testing is cruel, unusual, and pointless. Animals are used every day to help find a cure for a certain disease in many painful ways. For instance, in 1984, at a medical center in California, the United States of America, a child had a heart transplanted from a baboon’s heart and died only two days later. Some had called this a medical miracle while others thought that is quite unwise and dangerous to mingle body parts of humans with that of animals.
4. Moetzler, Filip G.B. Animal Tesing and Politics
9 BILLION ANIMALS ARE SLAUGHTERED EACH YEAR IN THE U.S. ALONE SO THAT THOSE
WHO CONSUME THEM CAN GO TO AN EARLY GRAVE; THESE ANIMALS ARE KEPT IN
MISERABLE CONDITIONS OF CONFINEMENT AND THEN DISMEMBERED WHILE THEY ARE
STILL CONSCIOUS AND ALIVE
5.http://cbae.nmsu.edu/~dboje/In%20The%20News/animal_rights.htm
"To inflict cruelties on defenceless creatures, or condone such acts, is to abuse one of the cardinal tenets of a civilised society - reverence for life." - Dr. Jon Evans, England
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." - Gandhi
