Mathura Prasad Dahal
Instructor Miguel Marrero
English 1302
September 18, 2014
Animal Experimentation
The various experiments are performed on living animals especially to test the effects of chemical compounds such as new drugs, cosmetics, food additives and pesticides. The application of animals to test a large number of products from household compounds and cosmetics to pharmaceutical has been considered to be a normal strategy for many years.
Animal experimentation has existed since ancient times and contributed to human life and survival. The most radical progress in the health science has all been made possible by animal research. Thus, animal experimentation is recognized and accepted as an important tool in saving lives.
Humans have been benefited from the health care developments that have been based on the benefits of animal research and testing for many years. According to Fox Michael “Virtually every medical innovation of the last century – and especially last four decades – has been based to a significant extent upon the results of animal experimentation.” Surgery on animals has assisted in developing organ transplant and open heart surgery. “Animal testing has also helped in developing vaccine against disease like rabies, polio, measles, mumps, rubella, and TB. Development of antibiotics, HIV drugs, Insulin, and cancer treatments depend up on animal tests. Other testing methods are not advanced enough” (Vaughn, 171). Laboratory animals can play an important
Animal testing is crucial because without it, scientists might never find developments for biomedical research. Worldwide, there are millions of diseases that create devastation in countless families. However, there are vaccines, cures, and processes that scientists have came up with to help fix this problem. How fast and efficiently they come up with these treatments is the difference in many lives saved. Animal testing has been proven to speed up the process of collecting research
Throughout the years the use of animals in medical research has been a hot debate around the world. Although animal testing may be cruel and inhumane, thousands of humans are saved thanks to the research that animals supply researchers with. Animals testing have taken over our knowledge of medicine and treatments to a whole different level. Animal testing also does this in a cheap and effective way. Without animals testing out knowledge wouldn’t be up to date, in other words animals’ testing is good.
Animals that are put forward to medical experimentation contribute to cures and treatments that have saved many lives. The California Biomedical Research Association states that “nearly every medical breakthrough in the last 100 years has resulted directly from research using animals.” (California Biomedical Research Association). Animals that are used for these tests have contributed incredible discoveries on unimaginable areas starting on Cancer, HIV/AIDS, Heart Disease/Stroke, Diabetes, Birth Defects, and Spinal Cord Injuries. Animal testing has made medical discoveries to go from antibiotics to blood transfusions, from
We often see animal testing as an inhumane act of cruelty, however, we do not recognize the benefits and reasoning behind it all. After carefully studying the reasoning behind animals in medical research, I was appalled by the numerous beneficial outcomes. Research professionals tells us “Medical testing on animals has provided humans with an understanding of how body reacts to certain medications, diseases, or vaccines (animalresearch.info).” Without conducting such research, humans would have no further advancements in medicine, nor any knowledge of their effects. Have you ever noticed the prominence of commercials advertising a new medication? Whether it was a new birth control, blood thinner, or vaccine, more than likely, an animal was used to test the medicine. Animal Smart researchers explains how “Vaccines such as smallpox, measles, mumps, diphtheria and tetanus would have taken much longer to develop without the use of animal research (animal smart). Such diseases would have taken the lives of many young children and adults if there were no
For thousands of years animals have been used as research subjects, but with the advancement of science and society, animal experimentation has morphed into a controversial bioethics topic. Animal experimentation is the use of animals in scientific research. This experimentation ranges from testing pharmaceuticals on rats to measuring the elasticity of tendons in rabbits to implanting mechanical devices in calves. And while the FDA has dozens of guidelines to keep animal testing as ethical as possible, a strong opposition to animal research (particularly mammalian research) still exists.
Thousands of each species are killed every year against their will due to animal testing. Most people are under the misconception that animal experiments enhance human cures due to the media, experimenters, and universities which exaggerate animals’ potential and the role they have played in past medical advancements. Researching thoroughly on websites, books, articles and organizations, I will prove the common misconception that animals are needed for human advancement to be incorrect. Animal testing is proven to hurt humans directly and misleading animal experiments causes humans to dispose of cures.
It has been proven that “animal research has played a vital part in nearly every medical breakthrough over the last decade” states Understanding Animal Research, an advocacy group that aims to demonstrate the need for humane animal research. Animal testing acts as a huge help to the well-being and health of
Animal experimentation has been a controversial issue for many years. Over tens of millions of animals such as rodents, birds, apes, and rabbits are utilized in labs to test the toxicity of chemicals used in shampoos, cosmetics, vaccines, and much more. In this essay, I will talk about the types of experiments, the scientific break throughs of those tests, and lastly debate whether or not the act is morally justified.
Many kinds of animals have been used in numerous research projects throughout recent decades. These experiments range from testing new drugs, learning about illnesses, to even practicing surgical techniques (CCAC, 2017). One of the main arguments that support the use of animal testing insists that it is the primary reason behind our advancements in medical procedures and treatments. Although this claim may be supported in cases such as the development of the poliomyelitis vaccine (Barreto, Van Exan, & Rutty, 2006), there are still many experiments in which this is not the case. Many of the benefits of certain
Animal testing has improved the quality of medicine that is readily available to the general public. The California Biomedical Research Association has reported that almost all of the medical breakthroughs was the result of animal testing in the last 100 years (1). Experiments involving the removal of a dog's pancreas helped with the discovery of insulin (2). Many animals are used to help lead to more discoveries everyday. The polio vaccine was
Over the last several decades, scientific experimentation with animals has played an important role in developing new medical health breakthroughs for humans. Without the use of animals for research experiments, new vaccines, better surgical techniques, and cures for diseases such as cancer, would not have been developed. There are oppositions to using animals for experimentation.
New laws and restrictions made on testing is slowing research and making the experiments costly. These added obstacles are making the discovery of new treatments are cures difficult. While animal research has greatly expanded our knowledge of the body, diseases, and possible medicines, scientists are working to treat and cure deadly diseases like AIDS and cancer. Animal rights activists are fighting to stop this. Despite what activists say, there is not a single person who has not benefited in one way or another from animal testing. Scientists are looking for ways to refine and reduce testing, but until the day when health treatment is completely advanced, we cannot abandon the use of animals in research.
Animal experiments date back long ago, the first use of animals in experiments date back to when ancient Greek physicians first used animals as models for anatomy and physiology. (Franco) Since then testing has been an ongoing even into the twenty first century. During that time, many treatments of diseases and procedures for humans and animals alike owe
Thanks to animal research, many diseases that once killed millions of people are now either treatable or curable. Animal testing has not only benefit humans, but animals as well. Some animal testing has lead to life saving and life extending treatments for many of the animals used for testing. A complete alternative to animal testing has yet to be discovered.
Animal experimentation by scientists can be cruel and unjust, but at the same time it can provide long term benefits for humanity. Animals used in research and experiments have been going on for 2,000 years and keep is going strong. It is a widely debated about topic all over the world. Some say it is inhuman while others say it’s for the good of human kind. There are many different reasons why people perform experiments and why others total disagree with it.