Animal Testing: Modern Medical Science

Although there have been significant medical breakthroughs based in animal testing and experimentation, animal testing is a poor method of science as it is largely useless and

Most of the animals use in research are not protected by the Animal Welfare Act. Those animals like birds and mice are not protected because for the federal law, these animals are not in the animal category. The worst part of this is that those animals that are not protected are the ones most often used for testing. This animals are tortured in many ways and law does not do anything to protect them. In fact, even the animals that are protected by the AWA are harmed. They are exposed to a lot of harmful procedures. It have been cases were the same animals harm their selves due to all the stress they have to pass by. Imagine how much stress one need to be to be able to cause pain to itself.

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.

Over 100 million animals get burned, crippled, poisoned and abused in United States labs every year. Animal experimentation or commonly known as animal testing, is where scientists test their chemicals and products on animals to make sure it is safe for human use. Animal testing should be used because it's not only harming the animals it's costing a lot of money and animal lives.Animal testing should not be used because it harms the animals. Some tests involve killing pregnant animals to test on their fetuses. ¨Many of the tests performed on animals in the name of science, opponents maintain, are downright barbaric, rendering their subjects damaged and disfigured.¨ (Animal testing: Is animal testing morally justified?)With the amount of tests being performed

Animal Testing in the medical world is also quite a hot topic. On one side, animal testing has contributed to many life-saving cures and treatments. Nearly every medical breakthrough in the last 100 years has resulted directly from research using animals. On the

The term “animal testing” refers to procedures performed on animals for the benefit of humans. An estimated 25 million animals are tested on each year in the United States for scientific and commercial testing. It is used for biomedical research, medical usage, behavioral research, cosmetics, and the list goes on. Research on living animals has been practiced since at least 500 B.C. Many argue that animal testing is necessary for research, but with the medical technology we have today, this has been proven incorrect. The cost of animal testing is hundreds of thousands per year in the U.S. Animal testing is cruel and should not be allowed because it is abusive, expensive, and there are substitutes.

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.

Many Americans are dreaming of the “perfect” long lasting and healthy life and some of that may be possible to achieve with animal testing. Animal testing is saving lives through breakthrough advancements in medicine. Plus, this is happening without causing extreme amounts of animal fatalities.If there was another way to test for medicine scientists would use it, but unfortunately, animal testing is the one and only

Most would agree that they would not want to have their beloved pets subjected to any kind of medical research, especially if it causes them pain. Unfortunately, the same kind of empathy seems to be lacking when considering animals commonly used in medical research, such as rats, mice, or birds. However, whether a lab animal, or a pet, the ethics remain the same, and should be considered by most to be unethical. While the Animal Welfare Act has significantly reduced the suffering of animals in medical research, the suffering still exists. Furthermore, the

With animal testing failing new alternatives have come about. A new method called Vitro has ben invented as an alternative to using animals. This new method uses human cells and tissues, which is as close as you can get to an actual person. Currently the PETA foundation funds these new methods. Harvard’s Wyss Institute has also created “organs-on-chips.” These chips contain human cells, which are grown in “state-of-the-art system to mimic the structure and function of human organs and organ systems” (Peta). These are one of many new advances in technology that help find new ways of testing without harming millions of

Animal testing, also known as “animal experimentation”, has been used throughout history. The early Greek physicians, including Erasistratus and Aristotle, used animals in experiments as early as 384 BC. Animal testing is the experimentation on species other than humans for research purposes. Animal testing is used in a variety of ways including the making of cosmetics and personal products to the development of procedures and medications for use in the medical profession. I believe that animal testing in general is wrong and there can be alternatives.

Most people have heard the phrase animal testing, but some are still not aware of what it actually involves. Animal testing can also be called animal research, and it refers to the experimentation on animals for many different medical treatments for humans. Several different animals are tested on, from rodents to primates. It can take place at medical schools, universities, or pharmaceutical companies. Some animals are bred specifically for medical testing. Others, can be taken from the wild, and placed in an animal testing facility. Without animal testing, we wouldn’t have the knowledge or successful treatments for: Leukemia and breast cancer, kidney failure and transplants, Alzheimer’s disease, HIV and Aids, polio, and premature birth. Whether

Animal testing is essential to medical research, saves human and animal lives and is required by the FDA to pass new drugs.

Humans have advanced greatly in the medical field. We are constantly creating new drugs and medications to help or prevent symptoms from certain illnesses. Not only have we advanced medically but also in cosmetics, food additives, supplements, pesticides, and industrial chemicals and it is all due to animal testing (What is Animal Testing? p.3). The dictionary defines animal testing as “the use of non-human animals in research and development projects, esp. for purposes of determining the safety of substances such as foods or drugs”. Contrasting with the advantages of animal testing, the idea is controversial among many people. Morality is put into question because the tests can often harm the animals, they may also be kept in unsafe conditions.

Imagine a world full of disease and sickness, and doctors frantically trying to cure it, but do not want to injure or kill anyone in the process. Without animal testing it would be extremely difficult to find cures to cancers, diabetes, allergies, and other horrible problems. Animal testing is a critical tool in science and it cannot be replaced, it helps cure very serious and dangerous diseases, it’s very important when it comes to human health, and should be continued.