Understanding Animal Research

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.

Animals are appropriate research subjects because they are similar to human beings in many ways. All mammals, humans included, are all descendants from common ancestors, we all have the same set of organs (heart, kidney, lungs, etc.) that basically functions in the same way with the help from our central nervous system and bloodstream. We, animals and humans, are so biologically related that we are vulnerable to the same illness and conditions, this includes cancer, diabetes, heart disease, STDs, and many other

A. Animals and humans might share much of their DNA, but we are all built differently and we all funtion differently. There are many problems with the animal to human researching that occurs and makes animal testing ineffective.

To begin with, why is it done? Animal testing is done to protect humans from bad products that may hurt them, also to find ways to cure diseases that haven’t been cure yet. 95 percent of mice and rats are used for research. Mice represented the largest increase in research with their numbers going from 1.2 million to nearly 1.9 million in that period. Other animals also saw increases (Qtd animal experiment up to 73 percent, study says). Other animals that are used in research are rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, farm animals, fish, and insects, and also less than one percent cats, and dog’s area also used for research. Another reason is to treat injuries and learn more about the animal bodies to find the similarity to the human body (qtd. animal research). Animal testing is inhumane when testing to protect humans. Some people say testing on animals are life changing experiments and with the help of animal experiment can discover blood transfusion, kidney dialysis, and gene therapy for example cystic fibrosis and types of cancer( Coster 7). Others think experimenting on animal is cruel and they suffer a lot. It is true

On the other hand, some people might say that animal testing is used so scientists can find cures for certain diseases. This point makes sense because people are struggling every day with a sickness that has not yet been cured. However, we definitely do not need to proceed to test on these animals and making their lives a living nightmare. Therefore, scientists need to consider other options that do not involve harming animals. There are so many different methods scientists can use for an alternative.

Animals should not be used for scientific experiments. According to ‘Should Animals Be Used for Scientific or Commercial Testing?’ Animals are so different from human beings that research

I think we shouldn't test on animals. Animals are born to grow up and live a happy, healthy life not get tested on for mascara and lipstick. Animals die and get sick everyday due to animal testing. Some animals go blind, deaf, lose their legs or ears, make their young have birth defects, or worse they could die. They whine and get hurt, the scientists just continue their work, it is like they have no heart for these animals.

Apart from humans, animal testing is not just used to benefit people, but animals themselves benefit from the research that is gathered. Under the skin animals are very similar to humans, so animals too suffer from many of the same diseases. "Illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, asthma and malaria are suffered by many species and can be treated in much the same way" (RDS-net.org 1). Animals benefit much from treatments and medicines that had been initially developed for humans, such examples are antibiotics, anesthetics, antiparasitics, and insulin for diabetes. The fact is that nearly ninety percent of veterinary medicines in use today are either similar or very similar to those developed to treat humans. Even diagnostic techniques such as scanners and surgery practices that are used to remove tumors and

While many people think we are using animals to benefit ourselves, these experiments are also benefiting animals. When we use animals for research, people should know that it is not just benefitting us but it is really helping improve the life expectancy of an an animal and future as well. Animals are living better because of animal research. Pets and livestocks are living more comfortable. More than 90 medications developed for humans are used to treat pets, farm animals and wildlife. A number of medical treatments and vaccines used to treat animals were originally developed for humans through animal research. If vaccines were not tested on animals, animals could have died from rabies, feline leukemia, infectious hepatitis virus, tetanus, anthrax, and canine parvovirus.

Animal testing is being tested for human care of the products that we use, But the reason why we should not be testing animals is because their are poor animals they could feel the pain that they are being treated badly, The companies that are testing the animals are killing them they are in bad condition. Over 100 million animals are being killed each year.

To begin with, animal testing is very costly and more expensive than alternate methods. The US National Institute of Health (NIH) has an animal budget of $31 billion and for animal research they spend an average of $14 - $16 billion annually. I think that all this money being used for animal testing could be used for other important

There has been a decline in death rates of cancer since 1990. Some other things that are tested on animals are cosmetics. The reason why researchers use animals to test cosmetics is to ensure that the products are safe for us humans to use or not. Another reason why animal research is okay is because we have many different associations that agree to doing

Scientists use some animals to test out medicine but research says that animals do not get many of the diseases we do, such as Parkinson’s disease, major types of heart disease, many types of cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, HIV or schizophrenia. Therefore, medications that you would use on a person to cure these diseases aren’t completely beneficial to humans. Some animals are bred into

Animals themselves are very similar to humans both physically and mentally. With them being so similar to us, we would be missing a big opportunity by not using them to our advantage. There is a high possibility that a cure for their own diseases, will also be a cure for man 's diseases. In her book, Opening Skinner’s Box, Lauren Slater writes “ Moving up the phylogenetic scale, we are approximately ninety-eight percent orangutan or approximately ninety-nine percent chimpanzee…” (136). In making this statement Slater is commenting on how similar we are to monkeys genetically. Monkeys, are one of the most common animals used for biomedical testing, along with rats because they are almost identical to the human genetics. Knowing how close these animals are to us is something that we as people need to take advantage of and use to help get to the bottom of these illnesses that wreck havoc on people 's lives. However, just because these

Animals should be used for research and Experimentation because if the animals get sick or show any signs of acting abnormal then the scientists know it isn’t safe for humans to use. Animal research has played a big role in nearly every medical breakthrough over the last decade. Animals have the same organ system that perform the same task, which helps determine if what is being tested is safe for humans to use. Most of the medicines animals use the same medicine as humans like antibiotics, pain killers, and many more this helps to see if the medicine cures the animals without any harmful consequences then it would be safe and useful for humans to use.