It Feels It Just The Same: Animal Experimentation

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out by scientist should not cause any pain or distress to the animals being used in the experiment. Peter Singer’s “utilitarian”(Singer, pg. 79) view, weighs the pain and distress felt by the animals against the benefits derived from such tests. “. . . that because there is small benefit to science compared to the pain experienced by the animals, experiments should be severely restricted”(Singer, pg. 81). Because these animals can feel pain inflicted upon them during experiments, test should be as painless as possible. Animals can experience sensations as humans do. Tom Regan brings up an interesting point about animal rights. “. . . regardless of the species of the animal, all should posses equal value and rights. For humans to treat non-human animals as if they were of lesser value constitutes ‘speceism’, analogous with racism or sexism”(Regan, 227). To treat another species as if it were lesser than you is similar to racism. Animals can feel and react when subjected to ...

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of potentially toxic substances. The companies feed large amounts of the substance to animals until half of them die and the other half become sick” (Heneson, pg. 475). The Draize Eye test is, “. . . companies put drops of concentrated substances such as shampoo in the eyes of rabbits that are fastened open”(James, pg. 87). These test certainly can determine the damage of the product, but they also step out of reasonable bounds due to the fact that the animals are exposed to pain, become seriously ill, and/or die cruelly. These test are inhumane and there are alternatives to them that are reasonable.
Due to growing support of animal rights, a number of laws have been passed ...

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