This House Would Ban All Experiments on Animals.

This House Would Ban All Experiments on Animals

The first reason why I believe that all experiments on animals should be banned is because it is totally against all our morals. Humans aren’t superior to animals and should most certainly not have the power of life or death over another living species, whether it can speak or not. All animals have emotions and can feel pain, and it’s cruel to make animals suffer for the benefit of humans. Apart from this, the living conditions of the animals are catastrophic. Chimpanzees, which are often tested on share 98.4% of their DNA with humans. How would you feel if you were stuck in a cage where there is so little room, you can’t even move, and you know that in a matter of days, you are going to be injected with life-threatening chemicals? You know there is a strong possibility you are going to suffer huge amounts of pain, or perhaps even die.

Another reason to ban all experiments on animals is the reliability of these tests. Dosing a mouse or a rabbit with drugs won’t have the same effect on humans, and the chances of these tests resulting in a cure is next-to-nothing. The most common way in which these tests are performed is by dripping substances into rabbits’ eyes, which would obviously cause tremendous pain, or applying it to the shaved backs of rabbits or guinea pigs and studying the resulting irritation or damage. Animals are also force-fed to assess effects.

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You may still be thinking; yes, but this doesn’t happen to many animals and it’s all for the medical benefit of people, but that is totally wrong. 13% of animals tested on are used to test the safety of consumer products, and with the European cosmetics industry worth $39 billion, animal testing is used for money. That also equates to 35,000 animals being used for cosmetics tests in Europe each year. 35,000 lives to remove a rash. Is it worth it? An example of this cruel testing is shown in a photo where a rabbit has almost had its upper body separated from his lower body, in a dermal toxicity test.

This is not the only way to provide cures for diseases. Now cells can be genetically made and tested on, causing no pain and more accurate test results. Some of the alternative methods include Eytex, Skintex, Topkat, none of which harm animals or humans in any way, and as there is no law saying that products must be tested on animals, why don’t they switch their methods. The answer is money, the huge firms save money by harming animals, and as long as that is the case; they won’t stop.

I conclude that animal testing, whether it is for medical or for cosmetics reason, is cruel, immoral and often causes huge pain or sometimes death. There are alternatives, which could be used to prevent animal suffering, death, and pain, but the companies don’t change their methods, as it would cost money. This is why I call for replacement, replacement, replacement of all methods of animal testing with harmless alternatives.

The above rabbit that has been used in a skin irritancy test.