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Is animal testing the same as animal cruelty?
Animal testing is cruel and needs to stop, because it has far too many damaging consequences for animals, humans and the environment. Today, many industries use animal testing for different products, including cosmetics, medications, household goods, and pesticides.
Is animal testing wasteful?
Animal Experiments Are Wasteful and Unreliable The majority of animal experiments do not contribute to improving human health, and the value of the role that animal experimentation plays in most medical advances is questionable.
Why is animal testing a bad thing?
Imprecise results from animal experiments may result in clinical trials of biologically faulty or even harmful substances, thereby exposing patients to unnecessary risk and wasting scarce research resources. Animal toxicity studies are poor predictors of toxic effects of drugs in humans.
Is it morally permissible to test on animals?
The topic of testing on animals as a form of scientific research has been contentious for quite some time. In most cases, the discussion tends to focus on whether it is morally permissible to test various products and procedures on animals in order to determine whether they would be safe and beneficial for human use.
Is it morally wrong to eat animals?
Eating animals is also criticised on health and ecological grounds, but this article only deals with wrongs to the animals involved. If you accept that animals have rights, raising and killing animals for food is morally wrong. An animal raised for food is being used by others rather than being respected for itself.
Should we test on animals for the benefit of humans?
Defenders of the practice of testing on animals for the benefit of humans argue that the benefits for humans substantially outweigh the harms incurred by animals. Some argue that our moral obligations extend only to other members of the moral community.
How does animal experimentation harm humans?
Additionally, I show how animal experimentation often significantly harms humans through misleading safety studies, potential abandonment of effective therapeutics, and direction of resources away from more effective testing methods.