Why are you against labs that involve animals and insects?

Question

My science teacher is having me right an essay about why I refuse to take part in labs that come at an animals or an insects expense. I'm trying to make sure that I covered all the bases about why it is wrong. Thanks :).

Answer 1

It's completely in the wrong section. Not only do vegans and vegetarians dislike animal testing, most meat eaters dislike it to.

Asking questions is not about getting a good response, it's about getting the correct answer to your question, at least that's my opinion.

Answer 2

The Animal Welfare Act requires laboratories to report the number of animals used in experiments, but it does not cover mice, rats, and birds (used in some 80 to 95 percent of all experiments). Because these animals are not covered by the act, they remain uncounted, and we can only guess at how many actually suffer and die each year.

Many household products and cosmetics companies still pump their products into animals' stomachs, rub them onto their skin, squirt them into their eyes, or force animals to inhale them as aerosol sprays. Charities such as the March of Dimes use donations from private citizens to fund experiments on animals, and the FDA requires all drugs to be tested on animals. However, animals differ from humans significantly, making animal drug tests unreliable and dangerous. New research methods, such as computer models, cell cultures, and human studies are more accurate, less expensive, and much more humane.

To put it bluntly, no animal deserves to die so that you can cut him/her open.  Not only are you disrespecting the animal by doing that, but you're disrespecting his/her body.

Answer 3

cruel and inhumane to raise an animal just so it can be disected.  

Answer 4

it's killing an animal or insect!

it's like they lived just to die for US.

i'm into the whole life cycle thing, circle of life, but we shouldn't kill them for OUR purposes.

my teacher made me do one also and she gives me other assignments while they do the labs.

one of my best friends in college was made to dissect a CAT.

ew.

Answer 5

Tell him/her that there are alternatives to testing on animals.

You can get all the information from this website:  http://www.peta.org/about/faq-viv.asp

Good luck and stand up for what you believe in!

Answer 6

Hello.

I am a vegan, but even when I was a meat-eater I was never a supporter of animal testing and experimenting.

I am against it because the animals deserve a better life than just being held into cages and being injected all day long and then feel the pain if something goes wrong or even die.

Except fish, all the other organisms with a brain (animals), care about their babies, they can feel their loss. As soon as a new baby mouse or rat or any other animal is born in the labs, it is taken away into cages to be experimented on. Imagine yourself having a baby then as soon as it is born, it is taken away, thrown into a cage and then being injected or later on killed to see how its body is.

Humans are the most selfish animals if you ask me. Call it nature or call it god, all those bad things that happen to us like plagues and hurricanes don't just happen. They happen because we did something we were not supposed to. We abused nature. I can assure you (and your biology teacher should know this) that animals were not developed over evolution just so other animals(humans) can experiment on them. They were developed because nature developed them to live free. Not to be taken into cages.

Nature did not design us to know everything. Some things should be left alone. Why do we even want to see how other animal bodies work?

Well, people would say because we should know how animals were developed and how they might develop later on. Ok, fair enough. But not valuable. Let's just care about how OUR species has developed. Let's find out how it started and how it might develop later on. NOT how OTHER species have developed.

Just so you know, humans are one of the weakest animals. Poor eye sight, lame running speed, poor teeth etc... Our body is NOTHING compared to other animals.

Tell your teacher that let's just care about how OUR species work. If he/she really knows biology then he/she should know that by no chance nature developed other animals just so we can test on them. She should even know that our body is not designed to eat meat, and our teeth are not designed to eat it well. Anyway, I won't go into Vegetarianism/Veganism in this question.

Hope I Helped!

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Peace!

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P.S. Very smart of you for refusing to experiment on animals. More people should follow your steps! =]

Answer 7

It is not wrong to do so, and you are foolish to avoid it.  You need to study anatomy for the same reason a medical student does: to know how things work.

Answer 8

It is very inhuman to require students to repeat experiments that have been done thousands of times already.

Answer 9

Personally, I'm not. I think that labs like this are a great way to learn about life and how it works, as well as very interesting. That being said, I sympathize with you for not wanting to have to play with a dead animal. Well, one big objection that you could use is that it's unnecessary. You'll probably get more mileage if you can demonstrate that you will be able to get the same benefits without the actual dissection. (As opposed to just, "I shouldn't have to do this.") Is the point of the lab to become familiar with the anatomy of the insect? Then demonstrate that it is possible to find photographs or drawings that will show you, in detail, the insect's body (inside and out). Is it to practice dissection? See if you can dissect a plant. If you get one with flowers and leaves, you can dissect the digestive and reproductive systems. If a microscope is available, you might even be able to observe its circulation.

Answer 10

Because we don't believe in killing innocent creatures.

Isn't that enough?

If she's not sensitive to that, ask her if we can try the experiments out on her instead. -:)