Nowadays, we could enjoy numerous benefits and scientific discoveries that make our lives better. We use new more efficient medicines to recovery from various diseases; we use cosmetics to create beautiful images and astonish people; we use credible research data related to ways a particular living being could respond to one or another stressor. However, we do not think about methods that are explored to make all things mentioned above safe and guarantee that no adverse effects will appear. In fact, every new potentially useful discovery rests on thousands of experiments on animals who died to prove the efficiency of a particular drug or, on the contrary, to warn individuals about a dangerous character of a certain solution. Therefore, in the age of humanism, these methods are inappropriate as no living being should suffer. In such a way, the practice of animal testing should be prohibited because of its pernicious impact on their health.
By the statistics, only in the USA about 12 million of animals are used in research (“US Statistics”). 93% of these living beings are not counted under the US Animal Welfare Act (“US Statistics”). 38% of them die during severe medical procedures. 100 million animals are killed during biology lessons (” Experiments on Animals: Overview”). The given numbers prove the existence of genocide against animals in the coherent society. The problem is complicated by the tendency towards the further increase in the number of laboratory animals and research works that include testing on them.
In this regard, it is critical to alter the situation and stop this genocide. We now stand on the edge as the further deterioration of the situation will result in unprecedented cruelty and the increase in the number of killed animals globally. The fact is that animals should have the same rights humans have. They are not able to file a lawsuit against an offender which means that our duty is to protect them and avoid unnecessary deaths. At the moment, the US law and legal regulation in the majority of other states allow that animals could be burned, brain-damaged, starved, etc. to acquire a needed result and prove the efficiency of a particular measure (“Harm and Suffering”). To improve the situation in the sphere, the legislation should be altered.
Moreover, the modern science could destroy traditionally potent argument of the adherers of animals testing stating that numerous life-saving cures and medicines had been discovered due to the use of living beings (“Arguments against animal testing”). However, today researchers acquire an opportunity to study cell cultures in specific laboratories or administer microdoses too small harm human volunteers to avoid unnecessary cruelty and protect thousands of lives (Akhtar 410). This alternative might help to solve the problem.
Under these conditions, we now should unite and demonstrate our social position by demanding the government to prohibit using animals for experiments in different spheres. First of all, the legislation related to the sphere should be altered as all living beings should be provided with guarantees that they will not be killed because of another creatures vague need. To alter these inhumane laws, we should organize a social movement aiming at the reconsideration of the role of animals in research and improvement of their positions. One should remember, that every creature has the right to life and no one is allowed to infringe it. We should cooperate to protect all living beings and stop this killing machine.
Works Cited
“Arguments Against Animal Testing.”Cruelty Free, Web.
Akhtar, Aysha. “The Flaws and Human Harms of Animal Experimentation.”Cambridge Quraterly of Healthcare Ethics, vol. 24, no. 4, 2015, pp. 407-419, Web.
“Experiments on Animals: Overview.” PETA, Web.
“Harm and Suffering.” Neavs.org, Web.
“US Statistics.” Speaking of Research, Web.