Animal testing is the use of non-human animals in experiments that seek to control the variables that affect the behavior or biological system under study. Examples of applied research include testing disease treatments, breeding, defense research, and toxicology, including cosmetics testing. In education, animal testing is sometimes a component of biology or psychology courses. There is no nationwide ban on animal testing in the United States. The humane society estimates that more than 50 million dogs, cats, monkeys, rabbits, rats and other animals undergo testing each year in the US.
@ISIDEWITH5yrs5Y
No
@9GS769Q5mos5MO
We should not do animal testing, it is cruelty for our own benefit. Only animals that produce food should be harmed not animals who don't for no reason.
@9GT9X2H5mos5MO
Depending on what u use to test the animals they could die and ur basically a murderer and animal abuser and you would be killing that animal for no reason.
@9FLRDWHWomen’s Equality7mos7MO
-It’s unethical to sentence 100 million thinking + feeling animals to life in a laboratory cage and causing them pain, loneliness, and fear.
-The National Institutes of Health reports that 95 out of every 100 drugs that pass animal tests fail in humans.
It’s all very wasteful.
-Animal experiments prolong the suffering of people waiting for cures because the results mislead experimenters and waste money, time, and other resources that could be spent on human relevant research. Animal experiments are so worthless that up to half of them are never published.
-The world doesn’t need another stupid funded test on animals so that an experimenter can continue riding the grant gravy train that they are receiving.
@9FBKQ6TWomen’s Equality7mos7MO
dont test things on animals they are living things like we are. they have a life and they need to live their life.
@SomberCapitalistGreen7mos7MO
Many life-saving treatments and vaccines, such as the polio vaccine, have been developed thanks to animal testing.
Let's take the case of insulin, for example. Before the discovery of insulin, diabetes was a fatal disease. Dogs played a crucial role in the discovery and development of insulin in the early 20th century. Without animal testing, we wouldn't have this life-saving treatment for diabetes that benefits millions of humans today.
Whilst I understand and deeply respect your point, I ask you to consider this: If not animals, then what alternative do you propose to ensure the safety and effectiveness of new medical treatments and vaccines?
@9GRFGB65mos5MO
Criminals if you want to use living beings so much, animals are innocent living beings, criminals are not
@9GXT4L4 4mos4MO
That's a massive violation to the 8th amendment. While I do support animal rights, and definitely think it should be limited and heavily regulated to life saving research, preferably as non-invasive as possible, subjecting any human to that kind of treatment is completely contrary to the right to not be subject to cruel and unusual punishment. Not only that, but who do you think this would really affect? Murderers, rapists, and pedophiles; or wrongly convicted individuals and minorities? Personally it depresses me that an animal had to suffer for us to progress in life saving care. But… Read more
@9BC2YCK1yr1Y
It is such a cruel practice to test our products on animals. Even Hitler banned it.
@ISIDEWITH5yrs5Y
Yes
@9GSW7SP5mos5MO
Testing on animals is almost like testing on humans, while, yes, testing on humans would be the only other option, but animals are living things too, they have feelings just like humans do and don't deserve to die because of some test that's being conducted on them when they don't even get any form of a say in it
@9GP32F96mos6MO
I say no beacue thats animal abuse and isn't right. It could harm animals and we need animals in the world.
@9GRVYDR5mos5MO
If you had acid poured on you almost everyday of you short life, how would you feel? Now think about how those animals feel.
@9GQMT5J5mos5MO
animals have no way of saying how they feel and are forced to do testing they shouldn't be put through
@ISIDEWITH5yrs5Y
Yes, but not for cosmetics
Animals are beings of nature, just as we are and just as we have been since the beginning of time. You wouldn’t want to see your family pet be abused and poked and prodded with needles, so why are these other animals any different? Why shouldn’t we practice on other humans, wouldn’t that show how makeup and devices and other things work on human skin or how well they work with humans better than animals?
@9FLS4467mos7MO
No animals are living beings and should not be subjected to testing that could kill them and they can't consent to it. Animals are living breathing beings and should not be treated like inanimate objects that are only here to benefit humans.
@9FMHPCFWomen’s Equality7mos7MO
I feel we should not test any product on any animals I feel we should test them on the criminals on death row, the criminals that have been given live sentence. Because the animals don't desurve to be tested on.
@9FLRDWHWomen’s Equality7mos7MO
The harmful use of animals in experiments is not only cruel but also often ineffective. Animals do not naturally get the diseases that humans do. Such as types of heart disease, many types of cancer, HIV, Parkinson’s disease or schizophrenia. Signs of these diseases are artificially induced in animals in laboratories in an attempt to mock the human disease. These experiments belittle the human conditions which are affected by wide ranges of variables. (Ex: genetics and psychological issues)
@8JPQVPY3yrs3Y
Yes but heavily regulated.
@8M2N46D3yrs3Y
No, not for cosmetics. Drugs should only be tested on animals if it is believed that the drug could improve the animal's health.
@89S67K7Independent4yrs4Y
No, use inmates that are serving life or death sentences and offer incentives for other inmates to volunteer.
@9B3BGKK1yr1Y
Yes, but only for certain animals such as mice and rats
@97XMXQB1yr1Y
No, it is cruel, expensive and ineffective
@8PW2KJP 3yrs3Y
Yes, animal testing is necessary for understanding the safety and proper dosages of new medicines and treatments. It would be dangerous and extremely unethical for scientists to test drugs on humans before making sure they are safe. Even though the testing might be harmful to the tested animal, I believe its sacrifice advances developments on medicine that could save millions of lives, both human and not.
@99GH9PQ1yr1Y
Easy for you to say; you're not the one being sacrificed. If human lives are at stake then test on humans. You'll get better results and the medical industries will be forced to rethink and reduce their exploitative methods. In any event animals don't belong to us to do as we please.
@8FR4FG54yrs4Y
It depends on the animal
@9HKRSQP 4mos4MO
Yes but only if the testing is not torture, sexual, or harmful. It must be done quickly and safely. Animals should be released after testing and taken care of. Also, animal testing should not be used in cosmetics.
@984MWQ81yr1Y
@9CCW2F710mos10MO
No , use pedophiles and rapists
@9DDDH6X8mos8MO
Yes, but should be held to a high standard in caring for them and no cruelty
@9BLK65R12mos12MO
No, not for cosmetics. Drugs should only be tested on animals if it is truly believed that the drug could improve the animal's health.
@968CDRM2yrs2Y
No, this is animal cruelty
@983Y7441yr1Y
no and if they do, they should receive a criminal offense and charges
@97YBR4P1yr1Y
No, this is barbaric and exploitative.
@97CKKQH1yr1Y
Yes, but not on dogs, cats or Monkeys
@8X4795JRepublican2yrs2Y
Yes, but within strict ethical guidelines to prevent cruelty
@9HB5MKV5mos5MO
Yes, but never for superficial discoveries and only if the animals suffer zero pain or distress whatsoever
@9D8ZLH28mos8MO
Yes, but only on mice and rats
@8VBBWJ23yrs3Y
yes, as long as it is done ethically
@8RDQXNF3yrs3Y
I don’t have a stance on this subject.
Yes, but only rats and mice
@8GQP23H4yrs4Y
No use prisoners on death row
@8CZX2934yrs4Y
Test them on pedophiles.
@98K4R4N1yr1Y
Yes, but not for dogs and cats.
@93Q9VBD2yrs2Y
No, use violent criminals
@9FMM2KR7mos7MO
@9F9W6JT7mos7MO
Yes, but it has to be humane
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