Is Animal Testing Legal?

An animal test is any scientific experiment or test in which a live animal is forced to undergo something that is likely to cause them pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm. They use violent ways in animal testing progress. It’s not a right way to treat animal violently. Uncountable products around us are made with animal testing. Can you imagine the number of animals that are suffering because of animal testing? Eventhough animal testing is benefical, but it is still considered as an animal abuse.

Animal testing is a method that can make the animals feel stressed. When they are in laboratory, they are treated no more as an experiment object. Each year, more than 100 million animals were used for biology lesson, medical training, etc. In addition to the torment of the actual experiments, animals in laboratories are deprived of everything that is natural and important to them. They are confined to baren cages, socially isolated, and psychology traumatized. They are treated with no humanity. The feeling of the animals who are used in experiments are treated like nothing more than disposable laboratory equipment.

Many companies produce hazardous products and tested them on animals that caused deformity on animals. For example, mascaras, shampoos, and perfumes are usually tested on the eyes of rabbits and oftentimes the eyelids of animals are forcefully held open for better absorption. Some of them are forced to inhale toxic fumes, some have holes drilled into their skulls, and have their skin burned off. Other products, such as food and drugs, actually didn’t work in human. In facts, The Food and Drug Administration reports that 92 out of every 100 drugs that pass animal tests fail in human. It’s considered as wasteful yet harmful things because not all of the experiments succeed.

The chance of success in animal testing is low and sometimes can caused death on animals. The percentage of animal testing that cause animal abuse is increased every year because of experiments failures. We can see from USDA animal research statistics that shows 7% rise in animal use. Based on the research it rose 7% from 767.622 (2015) to 820.812 (2016). There are 52% in guinea pigs, rabbit, and hamster. Farm animal species stood at 10%, dogs and cats at 11%, and non-human primates at 9%. The rise of animal used reflects many factors including experiment activity in a country. 

Animal testing is not right, because it can cause stress, trauma, deformity, and even death on animals. Animals are living creatures that have the rights to live and freedom, not as an experiment object that we can use everytime we want and abandon them when we don’t need them anymore. Either it is a human or animal, they have the same right to live properly.

Written by: Jennifer Oscar, Grace Patricia & Verren Aurelia

Edited by: Michella Eleanor