Animal Testing Is Completely Unnecessary (Post 1)

You hear about new cures for diseases, or new cosmetics coming out soon that will make your skin look radiant. These may sound appealing to you, but the real question is how are they testing these things to make them safe enough for humans? They test them on animals. These animals are used for the sake of science and medicine, and even though cures for diseases would be extraordinary, the process behind it is not so exceptional. Animal testing is inhumane and cruel, and these animals are being tortured, burned, starved, and even worse, killed in the process. The reason I am arguing this topic that unfortunately not many people are aware of is because these animals should be treated the same way you and I are. If we were tested on and being tortured in this way, we wouldn't do it would we? Animals feel the same emotions we do, they feel pain and joy just like us. They are kept in places that are not natural to them such as laboratories and factories, and they are not comfortable either. They don't have a warm bed or sufficient food like they should. They are not able to roam free in nature, and most of them are taken away from their families, and unable to raise their own because the experiments affect their bodies in such harmful ways. These animals should have rights, just like we do and they should be free from the terrors of animal experimentation. In Animals used in research have rights, too, it states that “the benefit is that one drug out of 10 actually succeeds in clinical trials and benefits humanity. But by thinking of lab animals simply as a means to an end of human progress, we dehumanize ourselves.” This shows that, yes, we are innovating in the medical and science field, but we are dehumanizing ourselves in the process by putting these poor creatures through hell. In the words of Gandhi, "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be measured by the way in which its animals are treated." If animal experimentation continues, moral progress is basically thrown out the window at this point. In order to become a more harmonious world, with both animals and humans, we must improve our treatment towards one another.
 

"Animals used in research have rights, too." UWIRE Text 6 Oct. 2014: 1. Academic OneFile. Web. 19 Oct. 2014.