The Pros And Cons Of Animal Testing

There are over 26 million different types of animal being tested on for research each year in the United States. Animals are used for testing every year for human research. Different animals go through serious pain, in order for humans to facilitate growth in different fields of study. Many animals are used in order to study diseases and potential cures for the diseases. New research chemicals are tested on animals with similar structures to humans, to see if the medicine can help with certain diseases. Tons of scientific advancement has taken place because of animal testing. Without animal testing, many diseases would still exist, without a safe way to test for potential cures. The issue at hand is the type of treatment that animals have to endure because of the different testing methods. They are treated very poorly, go through intense suffering, and normally have very poor living conditions. A pro to animal testing is that many cures and different medicines have been developed through animal testing. Without animal testing, many diseases would still exist without cures. Secondly, animals have a much shorter life span than humans do, so scientists can study the results through the whole life span of the animal. With humans, it is hard to do a full test because we have such high lifespans, while animals tend to live a lot less longer. Thirdly, many animals have been saved because of animal testing. Many diseases animals deal with now have vaccines and cures, as a result of animal testing. Without it, many animals would have rabies or other types of virus that can be detrimental to the animal’s health. On the contrary, a con to animal testing would be the pain many animals go through as a result of the testing. The tests are experimental, so we don’t know exactly what the chemical drug will do to the animal. Many cases have turned bad and many animals have died as a result, or gone through extensive pain. Next, there are many alternative methods of experimental testing that doesn’t require animals. As a result, why are we still using animals for testing when there are other ways to do it. Finally, animals are different from humans, so they make poor testing subjects. We can’t know for sure how the research

Almost every medicine that can be found in an average person’s medicine cabinet has been tested on an animal at one point or another. A government funded corporation called the Food and Drug Administration, abbreviated as the FDA, is in charge of making sure that all drugs, cosmetics, biological products, and more are efficient, secure, and safe for human usage. The FDA will not allow any drug to be released or sold to the human population if it has not first been tested on animals. In fact, when a drug is first created it is tested on animals before humans are even allowed to test the drug at clinical trial centers. Whether or not animal testing should be done for scientific purposes, has been a widely argued topic for many years

In regards to animal research, my opinion is that it is extremely beneficial to medical and cosmetic research, but there should be regulations in order to ensure that these subjects are treated as humanely as possible. Cosmetic testing is a type of animal testing in which cosmetic companies will test the safety of their products for human use. This will allow the cosmetic company to determine if a certain product causes any rashes, reactions, etc. Animal testing for medical research is the use of non-human test subjects in order to observe how certain variables will affect the subject. For example, a researcher would give an experimental medication to mice in order to observe the effects of that medication on their behavior, biological system, offspring, etc. Overall, there are several pros and cons to animal testing for cosmetic and medical research, but the pros outweigh the cons. Regardless of one’s opinion on animal testing, the pros/benefits obtained from this type of testing are extremely hard to refute (Tappenden 1). Animal testing has contributed to countless cures and treatments that have saved thousands, if not millions, of human lives. For example, insulin was discovered through an experiment conducted on dogs that had their pancreases removed. Without this experiment, millions of diabetic patients would have been negatively affected or died. In addition, animal testing is a viable option because it provides researchers with a living test subject that is genetically and biologically similar to humans and it allows researchers to study a test subject throughout their entire lifespan as well as their offspring. The benefit of using animals that are genetically and biological similar to humans is that they are affected by many of the same diseases, conditions, and disorders. In regards to studying these subject’s entire lifespan, it is extremely beneficial that researchers are able to see the effects over an entire lifespan and their offspring’s lifespan because it gives us a glimpse into an area we wouldn’t have been able to observe prior to animal testing. If we were to complete testing on humans, who live about 70-80 years on average, this would not allow researchers and scientists to see the

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.

Controversy of Animal Testing Nowadays, one of the most common controversial topics around the world is using animals for different purposes, such as medical purposes. There are several advantages and disadvantages to the practice of animal testing. Unfortunately, neither seem to fully agreement between the general public, government, and scientists about this issue. It is important to use animals for a few reasons like medical purposes except under some circumstances, such as if there is no need to use animals because there are other alternatives like plants. On one hand, some scientists believe that using animals is necessary to improve the medical research for several reasons.

control of disease, pain and suffering is based on knowledge attained through research with lab animals.” Without that testing, humans may be exposed to dangerous medications and surgeries. The history of animal testing has gone as far back as the third and fourth centuries. Animal testing pros include a longer life expectancy for humans, in addition to a healthier life made possible by analyzing the data from testing.

According to the National Institutes of Health, animal testing has been around since the days of philosopher Aristotle. According to ProCon.org, there are an estimated 26 million animals used for scientific and commercial testing in the U.S. alone. Animal testing has brought many good things to the medical world, such as the treatment various disease. Also, the animal is being tested by many cosmetics companies. On the other hand, organizations like PETA- People of Ethical Treatment of Animals have fought against the medical testing of animals. There are pros and cons that come with the usage of animals in the biomedical and cosmetic testing, and each side needs should be carefully examined before deciding one way or another.

The use of animal testing to conduct research on medical and pharmaceutical products is a divisive and controversial subject. The main arguments against animal testing are the inhume conditions in which animals are kept, and the suffering inflicted upon test subjects (Van der Zee; July 18, 2013). Despite the ethical issues with animal testing, an equally compelling argument can be made about the need for this practice to minimize risks to human test subjects. Throughout the years, animal research has been essential to the development of ground breaking medical discoveries such as penicillin even if such discoveries came at the expense of millions of animals that may have suffered or died during or because of these experiments (Lobanovska & Pilla, 2017). This paper intends to establish that despite its drawbacks, animal testing is a necessary evil for the sake of scientific progress.

It can help in improving and protecting humans’ health as animals are biologically similar to human. This has enabled scientists and doctors to discover different types of treatment to cure certain diseases. However, there are some on the other hand who hold the views that animal testing does not play an important role in the medical field as animal testing is expensive and at the same time it is inhumane and cruel to carry out the procedures on living animals that can bring harm to them and destroy their entire

Human doing harmful things to animals by using them in the laboratory. Laboratory is not a place for animals to stay there. The animals that researcher used for testing are mice, pig, cat, dog, monkey, and others. They were suffering alive by human being. Think about what if animal treated us like the way we treated them, we will open our mind. Animal have feelings like us and they should treat with respect. Animals were used to develop anesthetics to prevent human pain and suffering during surgery. Yes, animal testing helps many human life, but can we save their lives using human? It is not fair for them to be use by human as we live on the same planet. Moreover, animal testing is harmful and painful for any kind of animal to endure. Yet, animal testing happened many years ago and until now. The animal lovers fight hard to prevent animal testing. Last couple years, the percentage of animal testing in the United Kingdom has decreased. Scientist used them for medical research and to study about it. Physician try testing the animal before touching any human being. Now a day, people have different beliefs about using the animals to test them. Some people will agree with testing animal, but some will disagree with it. Especially today generation, new technology were made so they try to use less animal testing. Instead of using living creature, we should use technologies to help us find out what we need to do. Therefore, animal testing should not be use in lab under any circumstances.

Animals have had a role in scientific research since the advent of modern medicine in early Greece around the year 300 BC (Hajar, M.D.). However, in recent years, a growth in attention and funding has led to an increase in the number of animals bred and raised for the sole purpose of use in testing. With this increase has come the division in opinion of whether or not scientists should continue their use of mammals and amphibians in their research or abandon such a practice for newer, potentially more accurate methods, such as free-standing human tissue cells (Ferdowsian). Regardless of one’s personal stance, it is hard to ignore the benefits animal testing has had on humanity. Testing cosmetics and medicine on mammals, for example, can filter out products which might yield a harmful result in humans. The utilitarian viewpoint cites benefits such as this. Animal Ethics, a nonprofit seeking to evaluate both sides of the ethics argument surrounding a host of animal issues justifies the utilitarian idea that “...the use of nonhuman animals can be acceptable only if the happiness their exploitation causes is greater than the harm it causes” (Animal Ethics). The opposing side, those who believe in inherent value, claim that animals should be given equal moral consideration as humans would, based on their capacity to suffer (Foëx). Both views hold merit, though as the cosmetic and medical technology industries grow, we as a nation must confront the issue of whether or not animals

Like Regan, I also regard myself as an advocate for animal rights, and therefore part of the animal rights movement. The torture and killing of innocent non-human animals needs to be stopped; this includes animal testing for biomedical research and in science, commercial animal agriculture, and fur farming. The termination of these lives is extremely cruel. But most of all, Animals are viewed as only existing for mankind and this is major flaw. As Regan stated, “the fundamental wrong is the system that allows us to view animals as our resources, here for us.” When crossed with ethics, it creates a dilemma. The use of animals as a resource for human needs is not necessary.

It shows clearly that animal testing is very cruel and inhumane, because scientist force them to eat and drink just for experiment. “For example: forcing dogs to inhale cigarette smoke did not show a link to lung cancer; Flossing, an arthritis medication, tested safe in monkeys but caused deaths in humans; and the recalled diet drug fen-phen caused no heart damage in animals, while it did in humans--just a small sampling of volumes of examples.” (NEAVS-- New England anti-vivisection society)

When people think about animal testing they think of animals that are being tortured and killed to find out a new medical treatment. The definition of “Animal testing” is the use of non-human animals in experiments that seek to control the variables that affect the behavior or biological system under study. Animal testing usually focuses on finding a cure for a disease, but keeping an animal to see if a certain kind of disease can be cured using an animal first is not right. Animals should not be used for research because it is cruel, it is unreliable, and it is expensive.

Animals testing has been one the issues where people are fighting overtime because of its ethical. Even though some results of tests are successfully work on people, but many people are still fighting for the animal’s rights. They believe that animals should have their own rights to be live a free life to where they belong just like their species. In scientists point of view, animals have been one of the main subjects to do test on, but a lot of them are currently looking forward to use and develop alternatives for the cruel act of animal testing.