animal testing
Animal cruelty has been prevalent since ancient Roman times. They would bring wild animals from throughout their far-reaching empire and put them in an area where they would fight to death, to the great amusement of huge crowds of Roman citizens. A popular belief of the time was farm animals should be treated with the same consideration as farm tools. (Owen 1993) Unfortunately, it appears that many researchers share that belief. Approximately 17 to 22 million animals are used for experimentation each year in the US alone. Of this massive number 90 percent were rodents, 173,000 rabbits, 75,000 dogs, 20,000 cats, and 25,000 primates. (Day 1994)While in laboratories, animals can be put through numerous horrendous tests. Some of the most common things done to their alive or dead bodies are: injections, inserts, or infusions of drugs, poisons, or chemicals, deprivation of sleep, food, and water, electroshock, vivisecting brains and severing spinal cords, smashing their heads with large blunt objects, firing bullets, implanting electrodes, blinding, deafening, or silencing, overheating, or freezing, asphyxiating, bleeding, and maiming the animals. (Owen 1993)Animal can feel just as much pain as any human can, so why are t
Grated it gives you data, but it gives you a lot of bad data. This should have been realized long along and with the realization, animal testing should have been abolished. Animal Rights: A Handbook for Young Adults. Rabbits are used because of the large size of the animal's eyes; this allows scientists to observe test results easily. Then the scientist pulls back the eyelids of the rabbit and inserts a measured dose of a suspected eye irritant. Animal Rights & Human Morality Revised Ed. For example, Avon uses the Eytex test in place of the Draize test. Animal Rights: A Handbook for Young Adults. Leander, Texas: Camino Bay Books. A perfect example to back up his quote is the debate over cigarette smoking in the early 1960's.
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