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... For some people this testing brings up ethical questions. ... For animal rights activists, like People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the answer is no. ... Its stance is that any testing is painful, inhumane, and unnecessary when alternatives are available. ... Essentially, PETA is of the opinion that animals and humans should have identical rights. ... Moreover, 11 million animals die each year in animal shelters (Americans for Medical Progress 2) and an astounding 95 percent of the animals that die in America do so from human consumption (James-Enger 254). The reason that animal testing is appropriate is that there are regulations in place to minimize testing and pain, the alternatives are insufficient for now, and most importantly the information obtained from experimentation is irreplaceable. While animal rights groups such as PETA advocate abolishing all animal testing that inflicts pain on animals, proponents of testing cite laws and regulations which minimize pain and discomfort. ... The vice president of the Humans Society of the United States (HSUS), an animal rights group that is nearly as extreme as PETA, has been quoted as saying the life of an ant and that of my child should be granted equal consideration (Americans for Medical Progress 2). If, as PETA and HSUS say, animal and human life is equal, then putting an animal through any pain is immoral. ... The laws limit the amount of distress and pain an animal is subjected to.
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the body that governs animal testing, must approve all tests (United States Department of Agriculture 2). ... In 1991 it was discovered that Procter and Gamble had performed experiments on 300 guinea pigs when the data the tests was to obtain was already available (Animal Testing by the Cosmetic Industry 2). This is just one of the situations that newer animal testing legislation would have prevented or at least deterred. ... When an animal must be restrained it is to be limited to brief periods of around three minutes (United States Department of Agriculture 3).
Approximate Word count = 1627
Approximate Pages = 6.5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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