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of the lives of other creatures: the animals. Indeed, animal rights are being
animals and humans and for a long time. In this paper, I will presenting the
case of this problem in detail in the first part, then I will talk about my
presenting some of the valid alternatives which can be used instead of the
abusive experimentations.
II. Introduction:
Animal rights are meant to protect animals from being exploited, mistreated
or hurt for profit and personal interests by human beings. Although these
rights are present and supported in many countries around the world, they
animals for experiments for the purpose of testing drugs, cosmetic products
and others. Around the world, there are from 50 to 100 million animals used
every year for that purpose. Examples are frogs, birds, rats, mice and
others. In the U.S, for example, there are around 80 million mice in 2001
alone. Most of the animals which are used are euthanized after the
animals are raised and prepared in the lab itself for the purpose of the
experiment, while others are caught in the wild or received from dealers.
It should be noted that animal testing has been found throughout history.
The earliest experiments on animals are found in the records of the ancient
Greeks in the fourth and second centuries BC. Artistotle, for example, was
in Rome during the second century, called Galen,used to dissect goats and
pigs and has been known as "father of vivisection." Even in the arab world,
an Arabic physician called Avenzoar during the 12th century in Spain used to
Research and experiments for animal testing are done in places like medical
who support the use of animal testing, like the British Royal Society, believe
that every achievement in the medical field ever since the 20th century
include the Institute for Laboratory Animal Research of the U.S. National
Academy of Sciences, which argues that the computers are not enough,
and the environment, which makes it important to use animals for research.
But on the other hand, there are those who oppose the use of animals, such
as organizations like PETA and BUAV, which believe that it is poor scientific
practice.
Many people around the world have pets in their homes, such as cats,
dogs, hamsters and others. They care about them because they know that
animals can be enjoyable companions and are not enemies of human beings.
However, many companies, institutions and even scientists around the world
exploit animals and harm them for pure experimentation and profit
purposes. Even some laws in certain advanced countries like the UK, support
animal experimentation. The British law for example, “says that any new
drug used for medicine, must be tested on at least two different types of live
2004) According to the BBC website (2004), animal testing is usually used to
negative and deadly comes from the 1960s and 1970s. It what was known
as the “Thalidomide Tragedy of the 60’s and 70’s”, a drug called Thalidomide
was considered safe (Bantwal, 2008). This drug was meant to support
happened is that thousands of children who were born from mothers who
used this drug were actually born with deformities (Bantwal, 2008). An
Japan in the 1970s. At that time, a drug called Clioquinol was developed and
animals (Bantwal, 2008). Although the drug was supposed to cure diarrhea
diarrhea and even provoked it in humans who did not have it (Bantwal,
This is a cage in which differet animals are put for animal testing
There are some who consider alternatives methods for animal testing.