Animal Testing

If penicillin hadn’t been tested on guinea pigs, it might never have reached the public. It is lethal to guinea pigs, deactivates the blood system of rabbits and is deadly to cats. Scientists are pushing for more experiments regardless of the cost to the animal's life. "One expense is the involvement of killing animals in the pursuit of a pine-scented air freshener"(Vergoth,p21). Animals suffering in experimentation labs are injust and cruel to …

…experimentation, but most people don't. Scientists are not capable of exercising or responding to moral claims. Animals therefore have no rights, and they can have none (Frey, p29). Animals were on this land before humans, so they do have a right to be equally treated no matter what. If scientists keep on experimenting with animals they may go extinct. Lets protect what was here before us so they will be here after the people leave. .