Organing Animals : The Pros And Cons Of Organ Farming

First off, the treatment of the animal models that are used in the biomedical industry has been found to conjure results that show the practice to be unethical. For example, past procedures conducted by the National Health Institute include inducing heart attacks in dogs and causing the likes of monkeys, rats and bunnies to give birth to deformed children through the use of Thalomide (which had already been

People perceive dissecting fetal pigs as being cruel and unnecessary. What they don’t understand is the educational purpose behind it by providing students information to help them better understand not only the functions and structures of the fetal pig but also their own body. These fetal pigs are unharmed and dissecting causes no damage. Concerns about fetal pig dissections will always be a factor of whether or not to perform this task but, there is a reason so many countries and schools continue to educate their students through fetal pig

All of the incision were preformed very careful and slow. We tried not to rupture the pig, but it very difficult. The equipment that was given was handy, however, they were not comfortable in our hands. For example, the scissors were too small for our hands and the scalpel was not useful in most of the situations we encountered while dissecting. Although we did not conduct many mini experiments, we took a look at our classmates fetal pig. We watched them as they observed the fetal pig’s brain and uncovered their spinal

Xenotransplantation is defined as “ The use of live nonhuman animal cells, tissues and organs in human patients.” (Fix, Megan. Fact Sheet on Xenotransplantation). There are pros and cons to Xenotransplantation. Xenoplantation aims to increase organ availability, it has the potential to open up new areas of research, and could end transplant list. The cons include high rejection rate, moral/ethical issues, and transfer of diseases from animals to humans. After learning about the pros and cons of Xenoplantation I believe that I am against it due to the ethical issues I have learned.

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated” (Mahatma Gandhi). Scientists have been using animals for biomedical research for centuries. They provide a source to get information scientists can not get without harming humans. A lot of debate is spread about whether it is good or bad. Animal experimentation is a controversial topic because it is helpful to humans, but it is also cruel and inhumane.

An organ market will lead to exploitation and unfair advantages for the rich and powerful. It will creates injustice between the rich and the poor as the rich will get organs because of their money but to those who is less fortunate people will not be able to have access to these resources. Vulnerable people such as kids, less educated people, or people from third world countries will get exploited and harvested their organs for richer people. When organs are freely tradable, many extremely poor people, especially those who are struggling to survive, will be forced to sell parts of their bodies. Poverty and corruption are underlying themes behind seller giving up their organs as most donors see it as the only option to make money. For most

Initially when seeing the fetal pigs, I was completely disgusted and figured I could not even look at them in the sink, let alone look at them when they are dissected. As my group pinned down the fetal pig and tied it’s limbs out of the way, I began to get more comfortable with the fact. As the dissection progressed, through observing the mouth and the thoracic cavity on the first day and the abdominal cavity on the second day, I became less grossed out. Observing the organs was interesting and I felt like it was a useful representation of what human organs are like, since it would not be ethical to use an actual human to dissect. I learned the difficulties that surgeons have to endure when performing a surgery. I can only imagine the high-pressure

There should be no room to clone any human being nor animal. There is so much more to find out about our world then to test the non-achieved and inefficient process of cloning. Therefore I am against any type of cloning, whether therapeutic or reproductive. Andy vidak I write to you this letter, to give you a better understanding of why funding for cloning would set us back as a society. Genuinely I care about our future because I want our generation to be known as the one who did brilliant things. The excuse that cloning can potentially result in medical breakthrough is unacceptable because, like president George W. Bush said in his 2002 speech about human cloning, “We can pursue medical research with a clear sense of moral purpose.” (Office of the Press Secretary par. 12). Research cloning would contradict the most underlying principle of medical ethics, that no human life should be exploited for the convenience of another. For that reason I stand by

In the past few years’ embryonic stem cells have been used and tested a whole lot. Which begs the questions what are they? What do they do? Is the use of them ethical? Embryonic stem cells are cell that can turn into whatever kind of cell is needed these are also referred to as pluripotent stem cells these are obtained by uses unborn children. This leads into the point that the use of embryonic stem cells in organ transplants is not ethical because embryos are killed to use and test.

Animal testing has been bad of the years and it can even be dated back to the ancient times of the greek. Physicians would dissect animals with the pure interest to obtain knowledge. But even then, one such physician stated that he would rather use a pig as his subject because he wanted to.The ethics of animal testing has always been questioned. Humans do not want to think of animals as on the same level of us. The similarity is terrifying and makes the cruelness obvious. In the 16 century it has been recorded that early vivisectionists, scientists who perform experiments and operations on live animals, did not consider animals to be of the same lineage of us and barely cared for them.The remaining are used as test dummies for products.

Furthermore, embryonic stem cells are pluripotent stem cells, which are a type of stem cell. They come from the inner cell mass of a blastocyst, which forms in the early stage in the development of an embryo. This caused an ethical debate because embryonic stem cells are able to replace damaged cells in the body, which citizens are pro for, but it’ll destroy the embryo, which has the potential to develop into an organism, thus citizens are against it as they see this as murder. Moreover, embryonic stem cells come from different ‘unethical’ sources, which include the use of embryonic stem cells from existing stem cells, discarded embryos from IVF clinics, embryos created by IVF for research, and embryos created by therapeutic cloning. First, existing stem cell lines are the least controversial because no supplementary embryos need to be destroyed. Secondly, not every embryo produced for implantation are used, thus the controversy is whether the discarded embryos from IVF clinics should be frozen for later use by future couples or be contributed to research. Thirdly, embryos used just for research is not supported and considered very unethical as money is wasted on ‘killing’ innocent lives. Lastly, embryos created by therapeutic cloning are great to use for transplanting organs, but it involves the destruction of the blastocyst. Finally, I believe

Embryonic stem cell research is a hot topic of debate in our modern age, as scientific development continues to push the boundaries of ethics. The debates lies in whether or not it is helping or hindering society, as the procedure involves the manipulation of a human embryo.

On the other side, the idea of allowing open organ market has strongly opposed by some transplant surgeons and other doctors. They claimed that selling or paying for organs is ineffective. Also, they argued that this is an immoral way solve the problem because it involves the sale of body parts and that the main donators will be poor people who needed money desperately and regret their decision. Basically, critics are saying that sale of organs is repugnant.

This is mainly due to ethical reasons associated with the experiment. There have been debates as to whether it is deemed ethical to establish a facility that uses human remains as experiments as it shows a lack of respect to the deceased. To overcome this problem, animal substitutes are used in the place of humans, the most frequently used being pigs, see Figure 2. There are also issues with the potential location of the site. The site must be large enough to carry out the research and also with a great enough distance from civilisation to prevent any complaints or difficulties arising in the future and also minimise the risks of contamination of farming land and water

And I say that a human organ market, by its very nature, is immoral due to the exploitation it would lead to. Proponents of the human organ market