Institute of Foreign Languages Lecturer: KOE

Department of English Subject code: WS202

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Members: Ly MouyLeang & Nhep Leakna

Topic3: Should animals be used in experiments/testing?

Animal testing is the procedure that using living animals to study for science purposes.
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According to the statistic conducted shown that more than 100 million animals every year
around the world are taken into science laboratories to test on biomedical products like
medicines, vaccines, cosmetics, etc. China, Japan, and the United States are the top 3 animal
testing countries, which globally share almost 50% of total animals in their experiments. Before
the products are delivered to the users, animals are forced to undergo all forms of injection that
eventually makes them pain and suffer death. 2Unfortunately, only 3% of the animals on average
can survive lab experiments. Those animals included mice, rats, rabbits, hamsters, monkeys, fish,
frogs, pigs, birds, horses, dogs, cats and other non-human primates. By the extreme number of
animals that these country normally use in their experiments, animals should not be used in any
experiments or testing anymore, and we will give 3 logical reasons why we need to cease it.

Firstly, 4there are alternatives to animal testing, which provide better and faster results. These
methods are the reasons why we could avoid animal testing. First method is known as the Vitro
method that we can replace the animals by using human cells and tissues. Harvard’s Wyss
Institute has created a type of chip called “organs-on-chips” that carry human cells grown, and it
is also cheaper and more convenient for the experiment. Another option is Computer-Modeling
(silico models); it is an advanced technique as the technology simulates human biology and the
process of diseases. Research has shown that these models can predict the reaction of new drugs
in the human body precisely. The last method is studies with human volunteers. Human body
system reflexes and responses to new drugs more effective than the rest of the methods existed,
but, however, this solution is not particularly recommended as it is utterly inhuman and not
appropriate.

Second, animals are different from humans. Meanwhile, we can see easily via appearance. Some
body parts, the animal has but human doesn’t. And the inside is as well different. Some animals,
their body systems are stronger than humans and some are weaker than. For example, their
immune system. If the experimenter uses animals to test human’s medicine, it will result
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differently. Likewise, some animal experimentation has been misleading and resulted in the
withholding of drugs sometime later that subsequently found to be highly beneficial to humans.
As a result, they started releasing it and use it as a drug, even though it is harmless to animals,
but it has contributed to human suffering and death.

Lastly, animals also have their rights to live. We humans think that born as human being, we
have rights to live, to decide and to do what we want as long as we don’t harm other people. The
same as people, animals also have the right to live, to decide. So, when we use them to test in the
experiment, it means that we go against their rights, their decision by harming or taking their life
at risk. However, people would say they are still human food eventually. To clarify this
statement, food is necessary because humans need protein to support their body system; but
experiments still could do without animals involved as paragraph 2 mentioned that we have other
options. 6According to The Stoics, it is not fair for all nonhuman animals to treat them as slaves
and accordingly as contemptible and beneath notice. These Stoic ideas became embedded in
Christian theology. They were absorbed wholesale into Roman law. Therefore, using animals in
experiments is legally wrong.

To sum up, animals should not be used in testing or experiments due to the reasons that there are
so many methods that are more acceptable than using them and as well as to prevent the
extinction of animals. Moreover, some animal experiments don’t work the same way on human
since they both have different body parts and body systems. Animal experimentation is also
known as legally wrong action because animals also have their rights to live just like humans.
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References

1. PETA. (n.d). Experiments on Animals: Overview.

https://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-experimentation/animals-used-
experimentation-factsheets/animal-experiments-overview/
2. Even, D (2012, June 25). Only 3 Percent of Animals Survive Lab Experiments.
https://www.haaretz.com/only-3-of-animals-survive-lab-experiments-1.5186681
3. Cruelty Free International. (n.d). Facts and figure on animal testing.
https://www.crueltyfreeinternational.org/why-we-do-it/facts-and-figures-animal-testing
4. PETA. (n.d). Alternatives to Animals Testing.
https://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-experimentation/alternatives-animal-
testing/
5. Goodal, J. (1999). Reason for hope. Animals Experimentation.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/animals/using/experiments_1.shtml
6. Steven, M.W. (n.d). Animal Rights.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/animal-rights