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Business Ethics

Animal Testing Wrong or


right?
17 March 2016 / 1:06 PM / ROOM T21

Attendees
Dagan Peake, Hailee Bashaw, Kaitlyn Bettis

Introduction
When it comes to animal testing, is is normal to assume that it is done humanely. That is when the
controversy arises. An estimated 26 million animals are used every year in the United States and 115
million animals worldwide for testing. Although the reason for testing on animals is to check the safety of
products, and develop treatments for humans, nine out of ten medicines that appear to be safe fail when
they are trialed for human usage. Each time a medicine fails, the process is put to a halt and resources
are wasted as well as a risk to humans during clinical trial. Animal testing can cause physical and can
also cause psychological distress and suffering. Most animals are killed at the end of the experiment, but
they may keep some for further testing.

Ethical Dimensions
Animal testing is performed on live animals for research on medicine and assessing its results. Some
products that are tested on animals are cosmetics, household cleaners, food additives and chemicals, as
well as pharmaceuticals.
Each procedure has the potential to cause the animal pain both physically and mentally. These tests
cause an ungodly amount of suffering and usually the end result is death.
Some common procedures that animals go through are

Chemical exposure which includes force feeding, forced inhalation, skin injection, forced
swimming, electric shock
Exposure to drugs, infectious diseases that cause illness, pain, distress, and untimely death
Ear notching, tail clipping
Physical restraint for examination and observation
Deprived of food and water
Necks are broken, decapitation

Our Stance
Animal testing is wrong. This type of testing does not provide the same reaction as it would on a human
quite often.

We as a group strongly feel that it isnt right on any level to put any living being through pain and suffering
without choice.
There are many limitations due to having to artificially create human diseases and toxicity in animals.
Animals are not meant to live in a cage and never be taken out. These animals are extremely
malnourished and frightened by this environment.
Quite frankly, it's nearly pointless due to animals seldom suffer from the same diseases as humans.

Alternative Solutions
A future that is not far away could potentially allow all testing for toxicity to be conducted with human
cells or cell lines.
Newer tools are out there such as organ on a chip created by Harvards Wyss Institute that can help
discover how drugs and the chemicals in them disrupt normal processes in humans.
These tests would be more accurate and cheaper, as well as being less likely to fail because they will
be testing on human cells.
These tests with human cells would also allow with research to understand why disruptions of normal
human functions occur at the level of genes, and lead to an effective treatment.
They made a device called a human breathing lung on a chip which mimics a breathing lung. There
are two sides of the membrane, one side lung cells the other being capillary cells. There is an air
channel and also a blood channel. This device stretches and relaxes just like our lungs do when we
breath. They say that this technology is useful to anyone, you do not need engineering background to
run tests with this device. They are linking it to more organs to see how different organs are affected to
a drug or anything that they test.

Conclusion
Given these points people who are pro animal testing may argue that animal testing has contributed to
many life saving diseases. This statement may be correct but it has failed many times and took lives of
many innocent animals.
Although, there is no adequate alternative to testing on a live whole body human, many alternative
solutions have risen and are ready to be used. These new alternatives such as organ on a chip allow
for much more accuracy.
We ask as a group for you to please be aware of what these animals are going through and understand
why it should be put to a halt.

Work Cited
http://www.hsi.org/campaigns/end_animal_testing/qa/about.html?
referrer=https://www.google.com/ "About Animal Testing." Human Society International. HSI,

2016. Web. 14 Mar. 2016.


http://www.neavs.org/research/overview "Animals in Research and Testing." Animals in

Research and Testing | Animal Use in Research. NEAVS, 2016. Web. 14 Mar. 2016.

http://animal-testing.procon.org/#background "Should Animals Be Used for Scientific or

Commercial Testing?" ProCon. Pro Con Staff, 10 Dec. 2015. Web. 14 Mar. 2016.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGezFH6DmwA Animal Testing Alternatives Medical

Course." YouTube. YouTube, n.d. Web. 17 Mar. 2016.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v19f2RbDP5I Finding Alternatives to Animal Testing. Perf.

Sharon Munn, Sandra Coecke, Andrew Worth, and Gilles Bories. Youtube, 17 Dec. 2011. Web. 24
Mar. 2016.
http://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-experimentation/alternatives-animal-testing/
"Alternatives to Animal Testing." PETA. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Mar. 2016.

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