Animal Testing

         Rise of the Planet of the Apes making me thinking about torture animal. In the movie, there have a lot of plot about using Apes for experiment. When they precede subcutaneous injection for Apes, we can see pain from Ape’s eyes. Nowadays, animal testing has become a widely concerned issue around the world. Come up with scientific experiments, we will think about white mouse, it is “devote” itself for a scientific breakthrough. I still remember the experiment of white mice for photosynthesis in my high school biology textbook, “Joseph Priestly process a series of experiments to find out the influence of gases on plants and animas. He observed that (1) if a candle was lighted in an airtight container, the flame would soon extinguish; (2) a mouse died soon when put in an airtight container in which a candle has burned out or the air inside has been spoiled by mice breathing and dying in it; and (3) the mouse lived if at the same time a live plant is placed inside the airtight container”(Bareja BG, 2012). Some people hold that the neural system of animal are not advanced than human, they may feel minimize pain from experiment; meanwhile, we cannot use human for experiment, which is inhumane. Bear a resemblance to humans; animal’s respond is similarly to external disturbances, so animal is best substitutes for human experiment. However, this opinion is misleading facts. Animal also has rights for their lives. They also have capacity to make moral choices. Therefore, animal testing should be banned, because animal has the right to life and human, which prohibition of torture need protect them.

          The primary reason to support that idea human gives experiment of animal in order to makes profit for there commercial, this is immoral. Animal testing for cosmetics and medicine, which are most common experiment of animal. People realized that animal testing can be done for commercial purposes; it is cheapest way to proves the risk or stimulate of product. For example, Legally Blonde 2: Red,White&Blonde, Elle woods wants her dogs mother attend her wedding, she hired private detective to find bruiser’s mother, but they found that Bruiser’s mother is in an animal testing for cosmetics.in the movie, we can see how painful of Bruiser’s mother from her eyes. Human compel animal to “use” the new product, which is testing how stimulate or risk of human skin. They uses animal to test cosmetics safety, it is not only harmful animal, but also deprivation their rights of survival. “Millions of rabbits, dogs, cats, mice and other animals are burned, poisoned and killed in painful and unnecessary tests each year for the sake of cosmetics and toiletries. Finished products (and/or their individual ingredients) are frequently tested on animals overseas before making their way to Australia.”(Animals Australia, 2013)  Animal testing is kind of behavior to torture the animal; it is possible that new product have poisonous and harmful substance, which is hurt and dangerous for animal. Some people may said that we uses some un-toxic substance for animal, those products are come from herbaceous plant, which is not harmful. Despite those product are not harmful, animal may not adept for those product. Here is some fact, “32 guinea pigs and 16 mice for test the skin sensitization, it cause those animal’s skin may show signs of redness, ulcers, scaling, inflammation, and itchiness.” “3 rabbits for test skin irritation/corrosion, it cause they are skin may show signs of redness, rash, lesions, scaling, inflammation, and/or other signs of damage.”(The human society, 2014) and so on. There are a lot of fact to shows that how harmful testing of animal. Therefore, for protecting animal’s right, we need to stop using animal for experiment human products.

          An additional factor involves this recognition that animals testing are result and information is unreliable and misleading, after all there are many differences between humans and animals. For example, In the movie， Rise of the Planet of the Apes the doctor create a new medical for Alzheimer’s disease, which is promote the intelligence. They give Apes to experiment this new medical; however, this new medicine is not suit for human. That it is adept for Apes, which is promoting their intelligence. It is possible that medicine is able to adapt on animals, but human may have some risk for use it. “We believe that although animal experiments are sometimes intellectually seductive, they are poorly suited to addressing the urgent health problems of our era, such as heart disease, cancer, stroke, AIDS and birth defects. Even worse, animal experiments can mislead researchers or even contribute to illnesses or deaths by failing to predict the toxic effects of drugs.”(Barnard, Kaufman, 1997). Animal does not have complex systems of organs like humans, such as nervous system is difference for human, so they might not has same disease as well human. If gives a new medicine injection for animal without heart disease, it won’t any effectiveness for this experiment. Because of we cannot test this medicine of pesticide effect, it will harmful and dangerous for human’s life. Therefore, the important medical improves have been postpone, because of misleading information test derived from animal testing.

         In conclusion, we should not use animal to testing our new medical or drugs, because of human interests should not be placed above animals welfare, which is harmful animals rights to life. In the future, hoping can find substitute for testing new medical or drugs without any harm.

Reference

BAREJA BG. 2012. 11.Oct, 2012. Crop farming or crop agriculture: basics and practical methods.

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Animals Australia the voice for animas. 14 March 2013.Which companies and brands still allow testing on animals? Retrieved from http://www.animalsaustralia.org/features/animal-testing-list.php

The humane society of the United State,5 March,2014. Cosmetics Tests That Use Animals. Retrievedfromhttp://www.humanesociety.org/issues/cosmetic_testing/tips/common_cosmetics_tests_animals.html

Barnard, Neal D., Kaufman, Stephen R, Feb, 1997. ANIMAL RESEARCH IS WASTEFUL AND MISLEADING. Retrieved from http://www.indiana.edu/~koertge/Sem104/barnard.html