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            The term “animal testing” refers to experiments and tests performed on living animals (Humane Society International, 2021). These tests were done in order to explore the basic biology and disease of human. However, products (cosmetics, household cleaners, food additives, etc.) which underwent animal testing, by most of the time, are only useful and beneficial to humans. There has been a controversy aroused by many scholars and professionals for many years, and it is still a controversial topic until now. Is it fair for the animals as creations of God (so as humans) to be used as subjects for products only favored by human beings? Animal testing should be banned for these two major reason: inhumane treatment and low accuracy.

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            First of all, inhumane treatment in animal testing is not rare to be discovered. Sciencing (U.S. ,2021) mentioned that experiments which involve animals as subjects could be described as torture to them. Animals would be forced to drink more water or liquid than their affordable capacity; forced to be injected with chemicals with unknown harm that might cause them to their death. Have you ever tried to imagine being forced to eat routinely? Try to imagine that your diets are decided by someone else you do not even know their name; from your eating schedule to your eating location. PETA (Priya.S., 2019) reported that Chinese experimenters genetically manipulated monkeys in order to plague them with mental health issues like depression, anxiety, fear, and sleeping disorder, etc. Cloning them for the purpose of testing the effectiveness of human-use mental health medicine. Although mental disorders are also common in wildlife, no creature is deserved to be tortured and to be practiced or forced to go through the experience of suffering in mental disorder.

 

            Moreover, the success in animal testing does not ensure the success will also applied to human beings. Even though there are similarities existing between animals and human beings, the reaction of animals toward the test does not 100% reflect humans’ reaction. Why do the researchers use animals for testing even if the test is risking lives and harming both animals and human beings? National institutes of Health in the U.K. (2019) recorded cases of successful animal testing failed in human trials. In fact, nearly 95% of the successful animal testing were not successful in human trials. The institute also claimed that animal trials for human medicine are not unreliable, yet put humans into a riskier place. The statistics from PETA (2019) indicated that 4,500 cancer drugs were invented and assessed from 2003 to 2011, which also underwent animal testing and successfully failed in the first phase of human clinical trials. Those drugs crushed animal testings\ turn out to be a cause of health individuals’ mental breakdowns, and more seriously of mental disorders.

 

            Some might say that animals have great similarities with human beings, so they are suitable to be used in medical testing. However, this thought is considered to be old-fashioned, the technology and the skills of the scientists have never stopped improving. The development of the biological-research fields enables researchers to clone genes and microorganisms from human beings for testing the essentialness of human-use products. The research of Cruelty Free International (U.K.) indicated that in crude skin allergy tests, the prediction of human reactions only reaches 72-74% of accuracy based on the animal testing. However, there is a 12% increase in accuracy of human-reaction’s prediction when making use of the chemistry-and-cell-based alternatives instead of animal testing. Especially for medicine, cloning humans’ genes brought more direct and specific results than animal testing, researchers firmly believe that genes that were copied from human beings have the most revealing reflection on the products in human trials. Thus, there is no reason to start an animal testing that both harms animals and humans.

 

            In sum, experiments involving innocent animals are still undergoing in every part of the world. Those cruel experiments have low acceptance from the crowd, at the same time, putting the inhumane treatment of animals. The governors of nations should set up regulations and rules in order to reduce, and eventually and ideally ban the existence of animal testing at all cost.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

References

Johnson,S. (2019). Advantages and disadvantages of animal testing.

https://sciencing.com/advantages-disadvantages-animal-testing-6068022.html

 

Priya S., (2019). 6 Horrific Experiments on Animals and What You Can Do to End Cruel Tests

https://www.peta.org.uk/blog/6-horrific-experiments/

 

Humane Society International (2012). About Animal Testing.

https://www.hsi.org/news-media/about/

 

Cruelty Free International (U.K.). Alternatives to Animal Testing.

https://crueltyfreeinternational.org/about-animal-testing/alternatives-animal-testing