Animal Testing In America

Animal Testing In America

Stacey Johnson, Reporter

More than 100 million animals each year get killed in laboratories for testing. Mice, rats, frogs, dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs, monkeys, fish, and birds, are in all these experiments. The experiments they do on these animals are for biology lessons, medical training, curiosity-driven experimentation, chemical, drug, food, and cosmetics testing. Before they die the animals are forced to inhale toxic fumes, others are immobilized in restraint devices for hours, some have holes drilled into their skulls, others have their skin burned off, and their spinal cords crushed. The animals are not living normal lives; they are confined in barren cages, socially isolated, and psychologically traumatized.

Laboratories use so many tests that are so harmful. Some go with injecting or force-feeding animals potentially harmful substances, surgically removing animals’ organs or tissues to deliberately cause damage, forcing animals to inhale toxic gases, subjecting animals to frighting situations to create anxiety and depression regulatory tests for botox, and vaccines. Some animals are required to die with some of the testings.

Ever since I saw the Korean meat market of dogs, I have been traumatized by the lack of care people have for animals. Some of these animals could be picked up from the streets, could breed into the system, and could be possibly stolen from backyards. Now to hear how they die is very heartbreaking, people need to be tested so they know how the animals feel. Animals can be in so much pain, they can feel too; they are not objects like the scientists make them out to be. I find it very weird how the people that own animals actually okay the testing. What if you saw your animal being tested on every day, with the yelping, the squealing, because they are being tested on. This honestly needs to be stopped, they do not need to suffer like that. They deserve to live a long and happy life, instead of being confined and not being loved by the humans they get touched by.