Animal Testing: Necessary Or Harmful?
Animal Testing Animal testing has been around for a long time. Many do not want to change and stop animal testing. Others are up for change and they believe it would be for the better. Although, for the safety of people, makeup and drugs have been tested on animals. Many believe that animal testing should come to an end. Others, however, believe animal testing should continue to make sure the people who would use the makeup or drugs would be safe. Animal testing has been a problem that needs to come to a hold in many people’s eyes. On the other, hand they think animal testing has been going on this long, so it would be pointless to stop. They believe if animal testing has been going on this long then it is not hurting the animals.
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Legal drugs, which made their way to public animals, kill approximately one hundred thousand people per year, and because more illegal drugs combined and cost the general public over one hundred thirty-six billion dollars in health care expenses (Greek). This amount of money could be saved if animal testing would come to a standstill. “The care and upkeep of primates other than chimpanzees are twenty to twenty-five dollars per day” (Conlee). The money would be more useful if it was not put towards animal testing where animal testing does not always work and is inconclusive. “The only U.S. law that governs the use of animals in laboratories – the Animal Welfare Act – allows animals to be burned, shocked, poisoned, isolated, starved, forcibly restrained, addicted to drugs, and brain-damaged (Berlatsky). This would be awful to do to a human, in fact, it is illegal. Then why should this be legal to do to animals when animals feel the same as a human. Undergoing animal testing and not doing anything about it is shameful. People know what happens to animals while this testing accrues but it needs to come to a standstill. The United States already puts too much money into this testing just for animals to be tortured. Because rats and mice are not protected by the law, experimenters do not have to provide them with pain relief (Berlatsky). The amount of money put into this animal testing for the results to not be what they wanted is shocking. The animal testing is cruel to animals and needs to be put under animal
Legal drugs, which made their way to public animals, kill approximately one hundred thousand people per year, and because more illegal drugs combined and cost the general public over one hundred thirty-six billion dollars in health care expenses (Greek). This amount of money could be saved if animal testing would come to a standstill. “The care and upkeep of primates other than chimpanzees are twenty to twenty-five dollars per day” (Conlee). The money would be more useful if it was not put towards animal testing where animal testing does not always work and is inconclusive. “The only U.S. law that governs the use of animals in laboratories – the Animal Welfare Act – allows animals to be burned, shocked, poisoned, isolated, starved, forcibly restrained, addicted to drugs, and brain-damaged (Berlatsky). This would be awful to do to a human, in fact, it is illegal. Then why should this be legal to do to animals when animals feel the same as a human. Undergoing animal testing and not doing anything about it is shameful. People know what happens to animals while this testing accrues but it needs to come to a standstill. The United States already puts too much money into this testing just for animals to be tortured. Because rats and mice are not protected by the law, experimenters do not have to provide them with pain relief (Berlatsky). The amount of money put into this animal testing for the results to not be what they wanted is shocking. The animal testing is cruel to animals and needs to be put under animal