Animal Research Controversy

As we discover treatments for diseases such as rabies, feline leukemia, tetanus, anthrax, and much more, animals also bear the advantage of protection. In fact, humans share hundreds of diseases with animals. We also share similar organs allowing scientists to use animals as an essential model for the study of illnesses. Therefore, the work researchers perform sets a platform for an end result where both parties benefit. It can thus be concluded that those against animal research are covered by a counterintuitive notion because, without animal research, the animals whom they are fighting for would die due to a potentially curable disease. To deal with the ethical dilemma of animal research, countries like the United Kingdom have placed regulations that require the research scientists to show how and if they have considered alternative ways before they are given a license to continue with their research projects. Given these circumstances, we can conclude that the rise in animals used in research must mean that in the near future there may be major medical

Everyone has benefited from the use of animal research in one way or another. My sister was diagnosed with asthma when born and without the help of animal research asthma would still be incurable. Experiencing this history with my sister I went into this research with a large bias for animal research. I found that research on animals is not a new discussion, “[h]umans have been using other vertebrate animal species…as models of their anatomy and physiology since the dawn of medicine.” (Franco 239) The ancient Greeks used animals for experiments with no question of morality ever being raised because of their “ranking in the scala naturae (the chain of being).” (Franco) Every major era came with a new dispute over how to handle animal

Animal experimentation has been a commonly debated subject for many years, is it cruelty or science? Millions of animals die each year from animal testing. This is because of harsh ways animals are treated like by their experimenters. Animals should be free of the cruelty scientists expose them to. They have just as much sentient as humans do. Millions of animals a year are subject to being imprisoned and having terrible procedures done.

There are many benefits as well as drawbacks with animal research. Such as, the benefaction to life-saving cures and treatments. The California Biomedical Research Association states that nearly every medical breakthrough in the last 95 years has resulted directly from research using animals. Examination in which dogs have

When I first started to contemplate my position on this topic I hadn’t really realized the magnitude or the amount of controversy that surrounds animal research and testing. When I started to search for content to include in my paper I read many articles on the subject and I was amazed to find that being involved in this field can be a dangerous job. In an article titled Defending Animal Research I was shocked to read that some extremist groups are willing to harm property and human beings in order to get their point across. It was noted that since 1990-2012 that there have been 220 attacks on individual’s who participate in animal research studies. This number has increased from 9% to 46% over this time period. I understand and respect the

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

Animals have been treated immorally since the beginning of time, this is shown by hunting, farming, trapping, testing of products and biomedical research etc. As humans, majority of us claim animals as our resources as we use them for eating, making clothing, (leather and fur jackets, shoes) working animals, as a means of transport, animal testing etc. In this essay I will discuss the use of animals in biomedical research and state why some believe it is morally justified. I will then present an objection to argue why biomedical research is morally unjustified and why I believe this. I will write this essay using resources from Tom Regan 's, “The case for animal rights”, David DeGrazia’s, “The ethics of animal research: what are the prospects for agreement?’, Baruch A. Brody’s, “Defending animal research: An international perspective” and Peter Singer’s, “Animal Liberation at 30”. I will then come to my own conclusion based on the different perspectives from the above philosophers and by using my own knowledge on the issue.

Do animals feel pain? Do they suffer when in distress? Almost all animal research is conducted for better understanding of human diseases and illnesses, rarely are animals used for the benefits of animals. Is the pain felt by animals worth the advances in human understandings? I will discuss what animals are used for, why they are used, the ethical dilemma of animal research, laws relevant to the study of animal experimentation and my personal stance on the matter.

“The California Biomedical Research Association states that nearly every medical breakthrough in the last 100 years has resulted directly from research using animals.” For example, the removal of pancreases from dogs, led directly to the discovery of insulin; which can be attributed to saving the lives of diabetics.

Yet many people still are of the belief that research on animals is justified because of the following reasons: To advance scientific understanding, to consider animals as models to study disease, to develop and test potential forms of treatment before implementing on humans, and to protect the safety of people, animals, and the environment. They may also show the facts that: animal research has played a vital part in nearly every medical breakthrough over the last decade, humans share 95% of our genes with a mouse, making them an effective model for the human body, have similar organ systems, suffer from similar diseases, cancer survival rates have continued to rise, idea of vaccines was started by

Animal testing has saved lives. Without animal testing we would not know if cures and medicines worked on humans and animals at the correct doses. The authors appeal to ethos in a very nonchalant way, by telling about the organizations that use the animals in the testing. Also the author tells that “Without animal research, millions of dogs, cats, birds, and farm animals would be dead from more than 200 diseases,”(Consunji) this includes diseases such as distemper, rabies, and parvo. Today these diseases are preventable by giving the animals vaccines and other treatments developed in the testing. The CVMA supports the use of the animals when the research is conducted in a “responsible, humane manner for medical and scientific research where there are no non-animal alternatives”(Consunji).

According to AALAS, we need to thank animal research for the vaccines that have helped kids around the world be healthy. AALAS firmly believes that animal research has been a crucial part of medical drugs that could even potentially control high blood pressure that can lead to strokes and anti-animal research supporters can't overlook it. Ph.D. Derbyshire, another pro-animal research, also thinks possible cures for diseases such as Alzheimer's, clinical obesity, and infertility all rely on animals.

“Almost every illness has been resolved in the past decade because of animal research. In the name of animal research, present day surgeries are now perfected because they were once performed on sick animals. Herceptin was created by extracting mice protein and humanized them to help women with breast cancer” (Lloyd).

1) in the laboratory. Not only is 100 million “an understatement” (Ferdowsian & Beck, 2011, P. 1), but in the next upcoming years, the number will most likely continue to rise if researchers don’t recognize the cruelty and inhumanity that comes with animal testing. Using animals in the laboratory isn’t necessary, especially when there are alternatives such as complete exclusion of these test subjects. In order to fully eliminate the use of animals during procedures, scientists must come up with a solution to replace them. Since researchers haven’t found a solution to completely replicate an animal's “molecular and cell biology, genetics, biochemistry, and computational biology” (Ferdowsian & Beck, 2011, P. 3), scientists have to stick to refining their procedures to be less dangerous or reducing the pain that they inflict on these subjects. The author’s want scientists to evaluate how ethical their use of animals in their research is,while also paying attention to an “animal’s capacity for pain and suffering” (Ferdowsian & Beck, 2011, P. 3). By doing this, scientists can be open minded to the alternatives to their cruel actions of inflicting pain on the subjects held captive, and be motivated to find new ways to test their

Medicine veterinarian, Larry Carbone, in the article, The Utility of Basic Animal Research, published in 2012, addresses the topic of animal research/testing and asserts that there are benefits to this testing but there could also be exploitation of the animals, thus a new method or model should be developed in order to continue this research without harming the animals. In this article, Carbone states that he does not defend the morality of using animals in experiments nor does he defend not using the animals at all, but solely focuses on the justification of their utility. He talks about the benefits that come with animal research such as that it aids in making medical advances. Carbone gives various examples in history in which animal research