Animal Testing - a widely debated topic these days. Scientists experiment their newly
discovered drugs on animals before letting us to consume them. Every year, about TIS
millions of animals are used for this purpose. Animals have to undergo severe suffering during
these trials and got killed at the end. Most of them are the animals like - mice, rats and birds
which are not protected by the Animal Welfare Act. But every living being has a right to live!
On the other hand, it is not safe to let humans consume these drugs without being tested. It
may also give an adverse effect.
What do you think is better- animal testing or human testing? Why? Support your argument
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Animal Testing Facts and Figures
United States (2019)1,2
Almost 1 million animals are held captive in laboratories or used in experiments (excluding rats, mice, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and agricultural animals used in agricultural experiments), plus an estimated 100 million mice and rats
Canada (2018)3
3.9 million animals used in experiments
120,099 animals subjected to “severe pain near, at, or above the pain tolerance threshold of unanesthetized conscious animals”
United Kingdom (2018)4
3.52 million procedures on animals
Of the 1.8 million experiments completed in 2018, 94,000 were assessed as “severe,” including “long-term disease processes where assistance with normal activities such as feeding and drinking are required or where significant deficits in behaviours/activities persist.”
Each year, more than 100 million animals—including mice, rats, frogs, dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs, monkeys, fish, and birds—are killed in U.S. laboratories for biology lessons, medical training, curiosity-driven experimentation, and chemical, drug, food, and cosmetics testing. Before their deaths, some are forced to inhale toxic fumes, others are immobilized in restraint devices for hours, some have holes drilled into their skulls, and others have their skin burned off or their spinal cords crushed. In addition to the torment of the actual experiments, animals in laboratories are deprived of everything that is natural and important to them—they are confined to barren cages, socially isolated, and psychologically traumatized. The thinking, feeling animals who are used in experiments are treated like nothing more than disposable laboratory equipment.