Final Essay


  An estimated 26 million of non-human animals are used every year in the United States for scientific and commercial testing; and the research on living non-human animals has been practiced since at least 500 BC. This information produces me discomfort. We really need to use non-human animals to increase the quality and duration of human lives? Why not to choose humans for purposes that are humans? 
  The industry and the scientific world commonly use animals to develop medical treatments, to determine the toxicity of medications or to check the safety of products destined for human use.  In a few words, as far as the scientists are concerned, the use of non-human animals it comes down to its functionality, sadly like simple things. Today we perfectly use new methods that can replace the need for animals. We have in vitro testing; we have in the world people that would love to participate voluntarily in some researches and we have HUMAN NEEDS.
  Like I said before, I think that the animal testing is cruel and inhumane, and specifically when we talk about the use of species of animals for research purposes. I am familiarized with this actions because in the Faculty we have an Experimental Psychology Lab and there we can find some investigative works that include rats as experimental subjects. Animals used in experiments are commonly subjected to force feeding, forced inhalation, food and water deprivation, prolonged periods of physical restraint, the infliction of burns and other wounds to study the healing process, the infliction of pain to study its effects and remedies, and "killing by carbon dioxide asphyxiation, neck-breaking, decapitation, etc. In the field of research related to Psychology, usually the animals are used to study the physiological basis of behavior or to expand knowledge about conditioning. I looks like these things can be studying with/in human subjects.
  As can be seen, we have certain knowledge gaps, but these are our knowledge gaps. We cannot use non-human animals to solve our “human” problems. We cannot use non-human animals when their welfare is at stake. There are other ways to achieve our painful purposes. For that I said that it should be forbidden to use species of animals for research purposes.

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