Animal Testing: the Facts
Why should animals not have the same rights that humans do? Maybe because they cannot talk, read books, or drive cars, but neither can some humans for that matter. So why is it that when an experiment, which was conducted to help treat type 2 diabetes, killed 203 people, it was halted immediately, although millions of animals die each year due to scientific experimentation? The answer is that many believe that animals are worthless or are not worth as much as human beings are, so they are therefore dispensable. The problem with that is animals are living things just like humans. Therefore, like human beings, they understand fear and experience pain. They also feel excitement and happiness. So why should they be denied the same basic rights that humans have? The answer to that question is that they should not be. Animals deserve the same rights that humans have, so testing that jeopardizes animal life, and safety should come to a cease immediately in the same way that it would if the same testing were to be conducted on human beings. Why is it that people think it is okay to conduct scientific experiments on animals? The most common response to this question is that human beings are intellectually superior to the other species of animals roaming the planet, but this reason alone is not enough to justify the act of animal experimentation. If that is the only reason that can be produced, then here is another question. “What about infants and mentally disabled people”, who are on the same, if not a lower, intellectual level as the animals that are experimented on, so how come people only perform scientific experiments on the animals? This is probably because it is considered unethical or immoral to scientifically experiment on a human being. So why is it ok to experiment on the animals? Maybe, because they cannot talk or defend themselves, so there is no way of asking for their consent. Where as if you wanted to test on a human, you would need that person’s