Animal Testing Allowed? Many animals are being tested for different purposes. Animals have been used repeatedly throughout the history of biomedical research. There are nine different animals being tested such as fishes, rabbits, rats, guinea pigs, hamsters, birds, cats, dogs, and miniature pigs. There are also companies products used for animal testing like cosmetics such as GlamGlow, Maybelline, and Lamer. Therefore, I think that animal testing should be illegal in Canada. Drugs that pass animal testing are not necessarily safe and animal testing is cruel and inhumane. Also, animals are very different from human beings and therefore make poor test subjects. First of all, drugs that pass animal tests are not necessarily safe. Drug testing on animals is very ruthless because you never know whether the animal would survive or not. “Animal tests on the arthritis drug Vioxx showed that it had a protective effect on the hearts of mice” (ProCon webpage). Drugs had caused more than 27,000 heart attacks and sudden cardiac deaths before being pulled from the market. Drug testing is injurious and deadly to animals’ health. For example : tests on pregnant mice, rats, guinea pigs, cats, and hamsters had resulted in the birth weakens unless the drugs were administered at extremely high measure. “Sleeping pills had caused 10,000 babies severe deformities and it was tested on the animal prior to its commercial release during the 1950s' ' (ProCon webpage). Animal testing is defectious because the lack of deformities that the babies had to go through. This is why animal testing should be illegal in Canada. In addition, animal testing is cruel and inhumane. Many animals get sick when being tested, “The animals do get diseases that are artificially induced in animals in laboratories in an attempt to mimic the human disease” (Cruelty-Free International webpage). This is why animal testing is complaint. Not only are the lives of animals suffering, but also it is costing a lot of money. “Money and animals’ lives are being wasted with a huge amount of suffering, but effective treatments are being mistakenly discarded and harmful treatments are getting through.” (CrueltyFree International webpage). Animal testing is wasteful. “ In 2016, it was reported 71,370 animals suffered from pain during experiments while being given no anesthesia for relief, including 1,272 monkeys, 5,771 rabbits, 24,566 guinea pigs, and 33,280 hamsters. ” (CrueltyFree International webpage). Animal testing is financially wasteful and very harmful to animals. Here is another reason why animal testing should be illegal in Canada. Finally, animals are very different from human beings and therefore make poor test subjects. The relationships between animals and people make animals poor representation for human beings. For example : it’s very hard to create an animal model that compares to what we’re trying to achieve for humans. Therefore, animal testing is complicated because the lack of the relationships between animals and humans. “ Thomas Hartung, professor of evidence-based toxicology at Johns Hopkins University, argues for alternatives to animal testing because “ we are not 70 kg rats.” (ProCon webpage).Testing animals is very different than testing humans and they make poor test subjects. That's a final reason why animal testing should be illegal in Canada. In conclusion, animal testing should be illegal in Canada because of drugs that pass animal are not necessarily safe and animal testing is cruel and inhumane. Also, animals are very different from human beings and therefore make poor test subjects. These are the reasons why animal testing should be illegal in Canada. Work cited Cobbe, Frances. “Arguments against animal testing.” Cruelty-free international, 1 June 2015, https://www.crueltyfreeinternational.org › why-we-do-it › arguments-again... Markoff, Steven. “Should Animals Be Used for Scientific or Commercial Testing?” ProCon, 5 September 2019, https://animal-testing.procon.org. Y Shroff, Jai. “The Significant Impact of Animal Testing on the Environment.” Jai Shroff’s blog, 15 November 2016, https://jaishroff.wordpress.com › 2016/11/15 › the-significant-impact-of-ani.
