Animal Experimentation

Imagine being dragged from your bed, strapped into a chair, eyes and mouth forced open, chemicals injected into your body, irritating solutions flushed into your eyes and corrosive substances applied to your skin (Product 1). It almost sounds like something straight from a horror film, but even more terrifying is discovering that this excessive torture does indeed exist. Every year, 25-50 million animals are killed through experimentation, and this is in the United States alone (What …

…to apply to humans. Extrapolation across species deaths not only in the animals who were sacrificed for this medical data, but in some cases the lives of the humans who took the tested drugs. Furthermore, the practices of these tests are excessively inhumane and inflict a lot more pain than is necessary to gather data. “The question…is not can they reason? nor can they talk? but can they suffer?” (Jeremy Bentham qtd. in Central, 2).