Introduction
People see animals from a different perspective. Most times, many persons perceive animals as tools. The world categorizes researchers as inhumane. According to Regan, a researcher professor in one of the universities in the United States, animals have a right to respectful treatment. Like any other human, animals have feelings towards each other, and to humans, they think, behave, get pain, and die. Therefore, researchers should not use animals to test for product safety.
First, animal’s rights get violated through experiments which researchers conduct. This research benefits humans, but they are not worth it due to the pain and suffering subjected to animals. Animals are degraded and considered mere tools in scientific technologies. Animals that get submitted to tests that are always painful, leading to irreversible damages and even death. Biomedical experimentations inflict pain, which is beyond the limits. Like humans, animals have a sense of feeling pain; hence, animals should have the respect they deserve the same as humans. Researchers yet violate animal rights because they cannot make a choice. No matter how minority animals seem like, no advantage should prevail upon them. Animals have no option of saying no to participation in dangerous experiments. It is not right to make the animals suffer despite the benefits to humans. The concern should focus on the animal’s fundamental rights that get infringed. Animals cannot vocalize their own choices; thus, humans decide to choose their fate to research technologies. The quality of animal lives is taken away involuntarily by experiment experts making their rights deprived. Therefore, animals should not be used in experiments because their rights get violated.
Second, the fear of extinction of various animal races. Experiments conducted in different biotechnological labs subject animals to extinction. Laboratory testing is related to the toxicity of high levels. Product toxicity testing usually is done to animals. These tests expose dangers into animals leading to deadly results like poisoning and death. The experimental tests are both painful and like in humans. Animals also scream the same way humans do. The most commonly used toxicity experiments are the Draize and LD50 tests. The two tests cause excess pain and suffering through blindness, scarring, infertility, poisoning, and death. The results pose a threat to animal extinction. Humans fetch success through these experiments. The animals used in the tests get end up killed. Some of the operations require that the animal is made unconscious or dead (Close et al., 1996). Philosophers criticize the Draize test because it is unreliable and a wasteful experiment of animal lives. The test involves the usage of a substance that directly causes death in over fifty percent of animals used per specific time (Spielmann et al., 1999). The test contains uncontrollable biological variables that are scientifically unjustifiable. The Draize and LD50 tests subject animals to agony pains, suffering, and death. According to the US Food and Drug administration 2018, over 115 million animals are used each year globally for the experiment. Out of the total number, only 59 new medicines get proved by drug regulations. Thus, animal research should get to an end to avoid more waste of animal lives.
Animals get subjected to the suffering of various levels beyond pain and death. Many people in the world believe that animal testing is acceptable because animals are lower species. The examination should not be justified simply because of products for human use. The products are a result of animal sacrifices, which are for granted. Animals literarily get exposed to torture for the interest of human welfare. The animals suffer through deadly procedures that they never deserved. Some animals get affected in response to imprisonment that denies them the freedom to bond with other animals. Animals also require bonding, just like humans. Experimental animals restricted in facilities lack bonding activity. The restriction imposes high levels of stress on the animals. Companionship is also right that researchers deny animals. The animals suffer a lot due to a lack of friendship, which they feel about like any other human. Getting human’s lives good or better does not justify the torture and the exploitation that animals go through.
Lastly, using animals for testing is unnecessary because rightful alternatives are available. Better ways to test products are now readily provided. Most industries in cosmetics, for example, test their products without involving animal specimens. The companies advocated safe experimental research through the use of natural ingredients that save animal life. For instance, the researchers can test the potential damage to the skin by using artificial skin (synthetic cellular tissue). Again an example of Eyetex is recommended that the research team should use the synthetic material. The material responds the same way a human eye does. The material reacts to harmful substances giving out the reassurance required for substance approval. In-vitro testing is another method that should be used instead of animals. Text tubes activate cellular tests that are reliable and useful rather than the use of live animals. Therefore, the practical tests which are available as alternatives should get consideration in performing experiments in place of animal specimens.
The animals have helped a lot since the first discovery of drug substances that are quite better for humans till now. Animals are more similar to humans than any other thing in this world. The research puts the animals in an excellent position to help researchers come up with useful substances to help humans fight some serious disease infections. Animals are, therefore, considered by experts as most elegant in giving results that are reliable since they represent humans by more than 95 percent. First, by saying that animals got rights that get violated does not convince anyone. Animals are just animals without any sense of knowing what is right or wrong. They do not even know the meaning of freedom of choice. The question to ask ourselves is about those animals that get slaughtered for food. Those used for experiments and those used to provide food proteins both have the same ending. Not only researches subject the animals to extinction but also the high food demand by the rapid population growth. The suffering of animals does not only mean that humans have a hand on it. Nature itself treats the animals even worse. Animals hunt each other for food, and no human is involved. The stress animals face in the jungle is even worse than that of humans. Over the years since the first test on animals, no day that researchers have run out of animals to text despite large numbers used per year. The numbers explain that nature is in control since multiplications of various species are also happening day in day out.
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