Animal Testing Methods

Animal tests do not reliably predict results in human beings. A study from ProCon.org stated that, “94% of drugs that pass animal tests fail in human clinical trials.” This shows that testing on animals may not be as helpful as it may seem. It is not useful to test on animals when there still must be even more tests to make sure that the medical treatments are safe since the animal tests are not accurate. The tests need to be accurate to know that the medical treatment works well

Ninety percent of the medicines we test on animals have not helped humans, they also do not reliably predict results for humans. According to Neurologist Aysha Akhtar 100 stroke drugs were effective on animals but failed on humans. Experiments animals undergo are often flawed and waste the lives of animals. Thomas Hartung states “it's very hard to create an animal model that even equates closely to what we're trying to achieve in the human.” Animal testing might also mislead researchers to the fact that animals have a different response to medicines that might be helpful to humans, for example Aspirin is dangerous to some animals. Animal testing is also more expensive than alternate methods we have found.

Although animal testing was a main component for the facilitation of medical research in the past, it is no longer necessary due to the option of alternate testing methods. Animals that fall victim to the mercy of animal research are subject to experimentation for the purpose of manufacturing harmless products (McKnight 2). Cell cultures, the MIMIC system, TraumaMan, in vitro, and human volunteers are substitutes for this inhumane procedure (Sullivan 4; “PCRM Scientists Educate” 10). Animal testing is a cruel, outmoded method that sacrifices the lives of innocent animals, despite the availability of humane alternatives.

The alternative to using animals in the lab would be carrying out these tests on people. It would be a quite difficult to find any willing volunteers that would give informed consent in testing out a new drug. Secondly, it would be unethical to stop animal research as it would radically sway the development of new knowledge and treatment flow to those in dire health conditions (Gauthier & Griffin, 2005). Also, scientific research uses up fewer animals compared to those that are killed for food. Research shows that approximately seven hundred more animals are used for food than in research.

Animals are appropriate research subjects because they are similar to humans in many ways. (procon.org) They are essential for allowing scientists to learn more about human biology and health, and for creating and developing new medicines. (yourgenome.org) Animal research helps save and preserve lives. Animals themselves gain from the results of animal testing. Because vaccines were tested on animals would have died from rabies. Infections, hepatitis viruses, and canine pro virus. Animals are used to develop medical treatments, determine the toxicity of medication, and check the safety of the products which are destined for human use. The research animals are cared for by veterinarians, and animal health technicians to ensure their wellbeing

Testing on animals for pharmaceutical products is happening all over the world with not much talk about it. “For drugs and biologics, the focus of animal testing is on the drug’s nature, chemistry, and effects (pharmacology) and on its potential damage to the body (toxicology)” (FDA, “ Why Are Animals . . .”). A lot of people read on the label time and time again “Product Tested on Animals” not knowing just how cruel some of these testing methods actually are. “Vaccine testing in particular consumes an estimated 2.5 million animals every year because vaccines are often produced by weakening, inactivating, or detoxifying a virulent microorganism or toxin. Each batch of the finished product is then tested on animals, causing them pain, suffering,

Animal testing is something we have all heard about and/or read about. It is something most people would consider to be horrifyingly wrong. Animal testing is something that many claim to be against and will not support. The lines involving animal testing are a tangled web of blurry and missing pieces of a much greater puzzle. On one hand, there are companies that claim to be cruelty free, but the technicalities that are dug up beg to differ. On the other hand, there are big practices such as pharmaceutical practices that use animals to test on in order to create life saving treatments and medicines for humans. Do we make sure to buy cosmetic products that stray away from testing on animals but continue to take medicines

Animal testing, also known as in vivo testing and animal experiments, is using the animals for research purposes (soundearth.com, 2010). It is far predicted that each year greater than 115 million animals worldwide are exploited in laboratory experiments (HIS.org). The vertebrate animals are used such as mice, rats, birds, rabbits, guinea pigs, fish, farm animals, cats, dogs and non-human primates (soundearth.com, 2015). Half of these animals were genetically modified breeds while the other half were unmodified animals, of which 58% were carried out for fundamental research, 26% for medical purposes and 8% for veterinary purposes (theguardian,2015). Animal research has played an significant role in the major medical advance for both human and

People that justify the use of animals in medical and product testing, usually have good reasons to believe so. “By studying animals, it is possible to obtain information that cannot be learned in any other way” (National Academies Press). One reason they believe it's the right thing to do is because of its benefits. Some of those benefits include advances in knowledge and improvements in disease

The opponents of animal testing claim that this method is cruel and inhumane. Furthermore, they state that nowadays, with the development of our technology, we do not need to use those pitiable animals for testing. On the contrary, animals for example- according to Walton “mice, men shared 99 percent of genes” and Dr.DeWitt “...genetic similarity between human and chimpanzees suggested they were 98.5-99.4 percent identical.” So, using animal for testing is the best alternative to human

Scientists use some animals to test out medicine but research says that animals do not get many of the diseases we do, such as Parkinson’s disease, major types of heart disease, many types of cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, HIV or schizophrenia. Therefore, medications that you would use on a person to cure these diseases aren’t completely beneficial to humans. Some animals are bred into

Procon.org stated that an estimated twenty-six million animals per year are used for scientific and commercial tests in the United States of America. Animal testing would not be so widely used if people took into account the alternatives to animal testing, the accuracy and efficiency of animal testing and its alternatives, and the cost difference between animal testing and alternatives to it. Animal testing has been used since five hundred B.C. (procon.org). Out of all of those reasons the most important one would be the alternatives to animal testing which would be able to eliminate the use of animal test subjects altogether.

USDA-United States Department of Agriculture AAALAC-The Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care International AALAS- The American Association for Laboratory Animal Science PHS-Public Health Service OLAW- Office Of Laboratory Animal Welfare

Although animal testing is so wide in its fields of animal use, I will be arguing about the uses of monkeys/chimpanzees.

Over 25 million animals are used in experiments in the US every year, and more than 170,000 of them are rabbits. Using animals in research is a commonly argued subject, and alternative testing methods now exist. Also testing animals is cruel, and drugs that pass animal tests may not always be safe for humans.