Animal Experimentation Should Be Stopped

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The Testing of animals is not only wrong, it is unnecessary. Animal experimentation should be outlawed because it is unethical, unreliable, and cruel to an animal's life. It gives people the belief that animals do not have the right to their own lives. Why should people be allowed to cage, test, and kill animals even though it is unethical and when there are other more efficient ways of testing different products for human purposes?

Most products manufactured for human use must be tested before they can be sold to the public. Animal Testing has been used for experimenting with new drugs, cosmetics, and for different medical purposes. Many companies use animals for this when there are newer, more reliable ways of testing these products. Some believe that animal testing has been the cause for many medical accomplishments, but in reality most medical advances have been through clinical research.
Mackar, Robin. "Newly Approved Ocular Safety Methods Reduce Animal Testing." National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences 23 Jun.2008.21 Oct.2008 <http://www.niehs.nih.gov/news/releases/2008/ocular.cfm>.

The Necessity to Eliminate Animal Experimentation

Many of the most important advances in the medical field can be associated with human studies, which have led to major medical breakthroughs. Instances such as the development of anesthesia, morphine, penicillin, and the link between smoking and cancer. Animal studies can neither confirm or deny theories about the human physiology and the human body's reactions towards human related products. The differences between non-human animals and people are to great for experiments with animals to be dependable. Medical products for humans cannot be reliant on animal experimentation to prove that they are safe, much less even perform the desired effects of the drug. Research of the importance of animal experimentation shows how animal testing is unneeded and does not provide comparable results that other methods can provide.
"Alternatives to Animal Testing." Alt Web. 2007. The Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to
Animal Testing (CAAT). 21 Oct.2008 <http://altweb.jhsph.edu/>.

The Medical Research Modernization Committee's reviewed ten randomly chosen animal models of human diseases. The models differed substantially from the human counterparts they intended to model. Also the study found that treatments effective in animals tended to have excessive side effects in human patients. MRMC physicians continues to evaluate specific animal-research projects, they consistently find them to be of little, if any relevance to the understanding and treatment of human diseases. Animal experimentation involves manipulation of artificially induced conditions of the animal being tested. This brings about a number of variables that affect the experiment and can cause a totally different outcome.

Rowan, Andrew. "The Alternatives Concept." Animal Welfare Information Center Apr.1991.21

Oct.2008 <http://www.nal.usda.gov/awic/alternatives/rowan.htm>.

According to the FDA, 92% of all drugs found safe and/or effective in animal tests fail during human clinical human trials. They usually failed due to their toxicity or the inefficiency of the drug so then the drugs were not approved by the FDA. Only about 4% of the drugs that approved by the FDA are later withdrawn from the market due to sever, unexpected side effects. Animal experimentation with human drugs or diseases repeatedly provide misleading results which pose real risks to humans.

Anderegg, Christopher. "A Critical Look at Animal Experimentation." 2006. Medical Research

Modernization Committee. 21 Oct.2008 <http://www.mrmcmed.org/Critical_Look.pdf>.

Animal tests are continuing to provide misleading results. The prescribed arthritis painkiller Vioxx went through many tests including animal tests. The drug appeared to be safe and actually helpful to the heart in animal tests. In, 2004 the drug was withdrawn from the market after being the reported cause of over 320,000 heart attacks and heart failures worldwide, 140,000 of them being fatal. These very important, dangerous faults could be avoided if money that is invested in animal testing would be put to better use if it was towards newer more efficient methods of testing. Animal experimentation needs to be stopped and outlawed because it would save animals and provide more reliable tests for human research.

Anderegg, Christopher. "A Critical Look at Animal Experimentation." 2006. Medical Research

Modernization Committee. 21 Oct.2008 <http://www.mrmcmed.org/Critical_Look.pdf>.

2008 Richard Deaton rd00735@georgiasouthern.edu