Animal Testing is Unethical Essay -- Ethics

"There will come a day when such men as myself will view slaughter of innocent creatures as horrible a crime as the murder of his fellow man- Our task must be to free ourselves- by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature and its beauty." -Albert Einstein (1879-1955). Picture this: You're locked living inside a closet without control over any aspect of your life. You can't choose when you eat or what you eat, how you will spend your time, whether or not you will have husband or wife or children, and if you do, who that person will be. You can't even decide when the lights go on and off. Think about spending your entire life like this, even though you didn't do anything wrong or commit a crime. This is life in a laboratory for animals. It is deprivation, isolation, and misery. Now think about the needs of the animals that are caged up and stripped away from their natural homes. For example, chimpanzees spend hour's everyday grooming each other feeding their young and providing a comfortable environment for them to live in. They are loving protective parents and when they are taken away from their homes, they leave behind their children and the chimpanzees are no longer in their comfortable nests, but caged up alone and with cold, steel bars around them for the primary purpose of being experimented on (Baird, 1991). Not a nice picture right? But this is just one example of what most of the animal have to go through. I argue that animals have rights and should not be treated unfairly. Around the world, millions of animals are experimented on, tortured, and killed every year. Many of these animals range from simple household pets, such as cats and ... ...ed, the contribution you had made to cease animal testing will create an immense feeling of satisfaction. Animal Testing 7 References Baird, Robert & Stuart Rosenbaum. (1991). Animal Experimentation: The Moral Issues. Buffalo, New York: Prometheus Books. Monamy, Vaughn (2000). Animal Experimentation: A Guide to the Issues. Cambridge United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press Wise, Stephen (2000). Rattling the Cage. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Perseus Publishing Animal Testing 101. Retrieved on November 1, 2006 from http://stopanimaltests.com/animaltesting101asp. How are animals treated in laboratories? Retrieved on October 31, 2006 from http://www.animalland.org/asp/realissues/testing4.asp Animal Experimentation: Point Counterpoint. Retrieved on November 1, 2006 from http://stopanimaltests.com/f-pointcounterpoint.asp