Argumentative - Essay Example

As David Suzuki says, physiology and psychology has been based on studies on mice and rats. To increase human knowledge and for human gains, animals have been subject to torture. This has been so because human beings have never experienced or felt the pains that animals have undergone. Animals have never been seen from the angle of being living organisms. The human nervous system closely resembles those of other mammals. Hunting, using living organisms for food, for studying the human physiology, all amount to exploitation of other living organisms.

Ninety percent genes are common between chimpanzees, guerillas and human beings. This biological proximity makes it convenient to conduct research on them. It is disgusting that human beings first nurture animal species, then watch them die a painful death, only to conduct research and experiments. Why can experiments not be conducted on humans? Haldane says such experiments cannot be conducted on human beings, as they would suffer from anticipation of an early death, but is not this applicable to rats as well?

Physiologists watch dogs undergoing slow painful death in heated chambers. Can anything be crueler than this? Uncaged Campaigns, an organization dedicated to the political, legal, ethical, and scientific issues relevant to animal experimentation highlights that a very small percentage of the millions of experiments conducted on animals actually bring any positive discovery. Those that lead to no useful conclusions are easily forgotten, those, which provide irrelevant information, are never published.

Besides, by law, all medicines must first be tested on animals but then no test is considered successful unless the results have been observed on human beings. What then is the justification of research and killings of innocent animals? Animal rights activists’ action of breaking into labs, ruining experiments and liberating animals is absolutely justified. Haldane cites the example