Animal Testing is Necessary, but Should All Testing of Pharmaceuticals be Carried Out on Animals?

Worldwide, there has always been a plethora of issues concerning whether animals should or should not be used for biomedical research. There are some advocating for the best and most-advanced medicine for the people; with disregard for the animal’s health. They believe people’s needs should be the first concern. However, others put the animal’s health first. If the animal is not in safe conditions, then it does not matter what medicine advances might be discovered. Biomedical research is defined as “The application of the natural sciences, especially the biological and physiological sciences, to clinical medicine” (“Biomedicine.” Dictionary.com, Dictionary.com, www.dictionary.com/browse/biomedical.). Without biomedical research on animals, modern medicine would not exist. Animal testing has enabled the findings of treatments for cancer, antibiotics for infections, and preventatives for illnesses. For these reasons, animal testing should be used in the process of developing biomedical research.

Although, there has been successful experiments with animal testing, the percentage is low. Many drugs tested on animals that were released to humans had serious side effects and killed or harmed people effectively. Some examples of pharmaceutical drugs that were deemed safe for human use were later found to have serious side effects, like isuprel is a medication used to treat ashma - in Great Britain alone, 3,500 asthamatics died using this. This shows animal testing is in fact very dangerous to humans.

Animal testing should be continued for medical research; however, animal testing is cruel and inhumane. “U.S law allows animals to be burned, shocked, poisoned, isolated, starved, drowned, addicted

Animal testing is the cause of many controversial arguments. Is it ethical? Is it truely the best option? The answer to both of these questions is no. Animal testing is both cruel and unreliable. There are many alternatives to animal testing that would be safer for humans and animals alike. Although it cannot be completely eliminated at this point of time, steps need to be taken to minimize animal experimentation as much as possible.

In today’s world, people always try to have the best, and this makes safety an important issue. Both medical and non-medical products need to be approved in terms of safety before it is put on the market (Galson, 2005). That’s why products such as cosmetics and drugs need to be tested on animals. However, researchers showed that there are many physiological differences between animals and human beings (“The Pharmaceutical Racket,” n.d.). For example, sweet almond which is healthy for human beings is deadly for foxes, and drugs which have the label of safety such as Pronap & Plaxin, which is a tranquilizer, killed many babies (“The Pharmaceutical Racket,” n.d.). Due to these false results, it is being questioned that what the drawbacks of using animal on scientific experiments are.

The topic of animal testing is constantly being argued about. Many are for it because of the benefits it has brought while others are against it because animals are being harmed in the process. There are many tests happening every day, but did you know it is estimated to be more than 115 million animals world wide being tested on? (Humane Society International, 2012.) This topic is very important because many of the animals being used do not have any simlilarites to humans, thus making the products (medications, cosmetics, etc.) not very useful for people. Although some claim that testing on animals is the only way for scientists to test and see if the substances being made will harm people, but that is not the case. There are several alternatives

Animal testing is essential to medical research. There is no other way of making sure medication is safe than testing on a living organism. Living organisms have a circulatory system which is how hormones are distributed through the body. The only way to be sure what a drug will do to a living system is to test it on one. Other methods of research on drugs just are not effective. A circulatory system is necessary determine the viability and effects of hormones. For example insulin was only able to be tested on live animals because it is a hormone carried in the blood. In addition animal life spans are much shorter than human life spans. The lifespan of rats is only

Animal testing is still necessary because it is the quickest way to test  vaccines for deadly diseases.  Many people think scientists should just test on people instead of helpless animals.  If they did that there could be chance the person dying during the experiment. Also, animals have shorter life spans,  so    long-term side effects would appear faster than a humans side effects would.

Animal testing has led to many life saving cures in humans, as well as animals. They have resulted in beneficial results in humans, as well as animals. Some tests may seem cruel, however the animals are treated somewhat humanely

There are many reasons as to why animal testing is an unethical and outdated practice, yet it is still being carried out in this day and age. Thanks to advances in scientific research, animal testing is no longer a necessary evil, so its use is more of an inconvenience than an advantage. And although there are many reasons as to why animal testing should be discontinued, costs, alternative testing, and its psychological effects on animals are the strongest arguments as to why it should be banned.

Have you seen that picture of the cute puppy on Facebook that’s gone viral? Wow! Me neither! Drug tests are done on animals to predict effects and results all for the sake of humans. Animal testing started back around AD 129-200; when a famous doctor named Galen started using animals to study animals and other doctors joined the bandwagon. Ever since then, animal testing started escalating rapidly and it is still escalating in modern day practices. However, testing new drugs on animal should be stopped because it is cruel, unreliable and wasteful.

As you can see animal-based testing is more helpful than not, but only when used for the right reasons. Animal based-testing has helped find cures,and is a faster way to find answers, and not all scientists have abused their “lab specimen”. There has been evidence of insignificant animal based testing and human deaths due to animal based testing, although, that is just one side of the animal-based research information line. With animal-based testing, there can be answers found. Answers that will help us greatly in the future. It is true that there other ways to take these tests, but think of all the lives that have been saved, and maintained with animal-based testing. Do you think it would be a good idea to end

In conclusion there is no need for animal testing. Animals have rights too; even if they can't think as complex as we can. Also, there might be a little more money involved if humans try alternate methods, but even some tests waste money, due to the gene difference between animals and humans. There are also many other methods that do not involve pain and suffering.

In many countries throughout the world testing drugs on animals is legal. In fact, medications and other substances like household chemicals will not reach the market unless they are tested and proved to be safe for consumers (ILAR 21). Thus, animal testing is crucially important for exploring maladies and evaluating the safety of medications.

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,