Animal Testing Vs. Hsi's In Glass Testing

In discussion of animal rights, one controversial issue has been whether or not animals should be use for medical testing. On the one hand, some scientists argue that animal testing has contributed for many cures and treatments. On the other hand, animal rights activist contends that alternative methods now exist that can replace the need for animals. Others even maintain that animal testing is an essential part in medical research. My own view is that animals should not be used in medical testing because is no longer necessary now there are methods that are safer and have better results than animals do.

For many years, the field of science has used animals in medical experiments worldwide, because of this innocent animals are being killed everyday. They are being tested with new drugs, new treatments, and by many makeup companies. Connecticut recently celebrated the passage of the “Beagle Freedom Law”, a law that requires laboratories to work with charities and rescue groups to find homes for research cats and dogs. Animals are being tested so humans do not have to be but animal tests do not reliably predict results in human beings, although animals are the closest thing to humans. Most experiments involving animals are flawed, wasting the lives of innocent animal subjects. Over 100 million animals suffer a year from testing. Testing animals is a lot more expensive than alternative methods and it is wasting government research dollars. Animal testing is not only a bad idea, but it is also inhuman and it should not be tolerated. The FDA should stop allowing animal testing. An animal does not give out the same results on a test than a human would.

The harmful use of animals in experiments is not only cruel and inhumane but also often ineffective. Animals do not get many of the human diseases that people do, such as major types of heart disease, many types of cancer, HIV, Parkinson’s disease, or schizophrenia. There have been past occasions where drugs passed on animals weren’t even safe. There is no excuse for animal testing in today’s techy world, there are now many alternatives for animal testing that would put an end to the pain and suffering endured by these innocent animals during human testing.

If a person was to choose between a cat and a rat to experiment on, statistically, more people would choose the rat. What many people fail to realize is that all animals, no matter what type of breed, are being put in labs and being tested on every day. Around the world, there has been an on-going debate on animal testing. Many people feel as if animals' lives do not matter in the long-run. The increase in animal testing has grown at an upsetting rate. Animals have no voice, therefore, people need to stand up for them and do what is right. Putting animals through testing and experimentation is unjust.

You may think of animal testing and picture a wet bunny all beat up and shivering in a cold barren cage. However, this is not the case, for the law requires that the lab animals are housed in an environment appropriate for their species and are well cared for (Institute for Laboratory Animal Research, 2011). Animals tested on in a laboratory can actually adapt with minimal stress and are provided with everything they need by highly trained professionals. Animal care standards in a testing facility are, more often than not, better than those at shelters, pet stores, even farms. However, I do not wish to neglect the test animals’ discomfort, for

History---- An estimated 26 million animals are used every year in the United States for scientific and commercial testing. Animals are used to develop medical treatments, determine the toxicity of medications, check the safety of products destined for human use, and other biomedical, commercial, and health care uses. Research on living animals has been practiced since at least 500 BC.In the 1940s, Jonas Salk used rhesus monkey to cross-contamination studies to isolate the three forms of the polio virus that affected hundreds of thousands yearly.Salk's team created a vaccine against the strains of polio in cell cultures of rhesus monkey kidney cells. The vaccine was made

The survey was sent to twenty-three students asking whether they supported or did not support the discontinue of using animals in labs for experimentation. Twenty-two percent of students stated that they did not support ending animal experimentation in labs, while the other seventy-eight percent did support it. Those who still support animal experimentation must not know what really goes on in labs and how cruel the tests may be. Animals feel pain just as humans feel pain and they might even feel more pain than we do because of how smaller the animal is. Some even have similar cognitive conditions as humans, such as depression or stress as stated, “Some chimpanzees previously used in biomedical research exhibited symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorders similar to those observed in human (“Animal Experimentation” no p. #).”

Over 26 million animals are tortured and tested on every year, in the United States alone. Most are used for testing medical treatments, which people for animal testing say has saved countless numbers of lives, but how many has it destroyed in the making? Although testing on animals has lead to major scientific breakthroughs, the way in which they reach them is incredibly inhumane. We having the ability, should try our best to stop this wide spread animal testing because the tests are inhumane, the animals are abused during the tests, and the results can be achieved in other ways.

Animal testing has helped us for years discover cures for sickness in humans and sometimes even animals. But as long as they test the animals humanely, animals can be tortured with pain from the testing. However many efforts are being made to reduce the testing to a minimum. Scientists know that without the tests they wouldn’t know how to check the safety of new drugs.

Testing is safer for animals than it is for humans. Animals are the closest thing to humans on our planet. Mice are 98% genetically similar to humans, and chimpanzees share 99% of their DNA with humans. Animal research has been found to put no human lives at risk. Experiments can take place to determine if the idea or product will work as expected. If it does, it can then be tested on humans with a lower risk of unfavorable outcomes.

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

Roughly 26 million animals every year are turned over for animal testing (Procon.org). It has been practiced for thousands of years, with the first instance of animal research dating back to around 500 BC (and even then many frowned upon it). People who are for animal testing voice that it has created life-saving treatment for humans as well as animals. Those who are against it say that it’s an inhumane and cruel form of research, and there are better, safer alternatives scientists can use to continue with their

Many scientists claim that without animal testing, medical breakthroughs and research would not have progressed to where it is today. Some people claim that animals do not have rights and mankind naturally has dominion over them, making it acceptable to use them for scientific experimentation. This is simply not true. Animals can feel pain. They can suffer. One critic of animal testing maintains that pain is an intrinsic evil, and any act that causes pain in any other creature is morally wrong (Andre). A scientist should not be allowed to perform any experiment on an animal that they would not perform on a fellow human being. Animal testing is not only inhumane, it is bad science, and in light of other alternatives, it should have been halted decades ago. Millions of people still labor under the delusion that animal experimentation is the only way to test new medications, cosmetics, and household chemicals for human use. The media, experimenters, universities, and lobbying groups have propagated this misconception, arguing for the role animal testing has played in past medical advances and exaggerating the potential for it to lead to new cures (“Animal Testing”).

According to Humane Society International a non-genotoxic cancer risk test performed on a rat costs seven hundred thousand dollars, while a SHE test costs only twenty-two thousand dollars. Some tests can take months or years to perform and study and they cost thousands of dollars (Costs). On the other hand computer modeling techniques are much faster and also are much cheaper when compared to animal tests (Costs). Also in vitro tests cost much less than animal tests (Costs). For example in an Androgen Hormone inter test performed on a rat it would cost thirty-seven thousand dollars when an in vitro test would only cost seven thousand three hundred dollars to perform (Costs). In addition to that, when a Estrogen Hormone inter is performed on and OVX it costs twenty-nine thousand six hundred dollars, but when performed in in vitro it only costs seven thousand two hundred dollars (Costs). As well as when a pyrogenicity test is performed on a rabbit it costs four hundred and seventy-five to nine hundred and ninety dollars, but when it is performed on a LAL then it costs eighty-five to one hundred and sixty dollars (Costs). In this exact same test there is also a cheaper alternative option called Endosafe or IPT which only costs eighty-three to one hundred dollars to perform (Costs). Also, a test called the embryotoxicity test costs fifty thousand dollars to perform

Without the use of animal testing, treatments and cures for chronic conditions and infectious diseases would not exist. These treatments help cases in AIDS, Alzheimer’s, anthrax, beriberi, cancer, cholera, coronary heart disease, diabetes,