It's hard to hear someone say they are not aware of animal experimentation due to the fact that behind most of our products, such as shampoos and conditioners, it says "tested on animals". By viewing this website, http://www.caringconsumer.com/resources_companies.asp, you can see which companies do and don’t test on animals. Things are injected into their skin and eyes and they are forced to swallow things. Because of the testing of consumer products on animals they are poisoned and killed.As bad as it seems testing of consumer products are the least of any animal’s worries. Not too long ago during the 1990's there were experiments done injecting the HIV virus into chimpanzees. They were kept in small steel and glass isolation chambers in laboratories causing them to go psycho. Because of the use of an endangered species of chimpanzees the experiments became very expensive so they used other animals. A monkey who they called “798” was experimented on and later became sick and died. “Every HIV vaccine that passed animal testing has failed in human clinical trials,” meaning many animals were put through pain and no cures or benefits were found for human patients. One researcher said “what good does it do you to test something in a monkey? You find five or six years from now that it works in the monkey, and then you test it in humans and you realize that humans behave totally differently from monkeys, so you’ve wasted five years.” I agree with this researcher. Who’s to say that what may work for an animal will work on us, it could even harm us.
It is said that a lot of the times scientists perform experiments on animals just for curiosity and not to improve human research or medicine. This “growing trend toward curiosity-driven research is largely a product of today’s “publish or perish” research environment, in which scientists are recognized for the number of research papers they publish rather than the contribution that each study makes to the advancement of science or medicine.”
There is also animal experimentation in schools. During science we see students dissecting frogs, eyeballs and other animals meaning animals had to be killed for this. In my opinion you don’t need to dissect animals to learn about them. Dissection of animals in school doesn’t serve much of a purpose and can lead students to want to kill more harmless animals on their own.
When searching for pictures to post for animal experimentation it was very disturbing to look at them. It really opened my eyes to see the horrible things that are being done to animals. Just because they are animals and not humans doesn't mean they don't feel every bit of pain.
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