Animals in Medical Testing
“Animal experiments remove 36% of the potential drugs from moving onto the next stage.”(Understanding Animal Testing) Animal testing removes all of these potentially harmful drugs from testing. This allows scientists to spend more time on possible cures for diseases. While many people oppose animal testing with the arguments that it is inhumane and doesn’t do much good, statistics show that animal testing has made the world a much safer place for people with diseases that were deadly at one point in time. The testing is also done as humanely as possible and using the lowest number of animals as possible.
Many people against animal testing are unaware that when animals are used for testing they are protected under federal law. Labs are tested extensively and research protocols are reviewed regularly. An article from the National Institutes of Health states that only experiments necessary to people’s health are done and the research is done with the minimal number of test subjects possible. All of the animals are treated “humanely and undergo the least distress possible”. The facilities do a lot of research to find which animal would be best for the …show more content…
The advancements made through animal testing have contributed in saving many lives and finding cures for diseases such as smallpox and polio. Much of the needed testing for new treatments cannot be done on models and biologically animals are the closest things to humans. This makes them an effective alternative to human testing. In an article from the American Physiological Society it states “They are susceptible to many of the same health problems, and they have short life-cycles so they can easily be studied throughout their whole life-span or across several generations. In addition, scientists can easily control the environment around the animal (diet, temperature, lighting, etc.), which would be difficult to do with
“Animal experiments remove 36% of the potential drugs from moving onto the next stage.”(Understanding Animal Testing) Animal testing removes all of these potentially harmful drugs from testing. This allows scientists to spend more time on possible cures for diseases. While many people oppose animal testing with the arguments that it is inhumane and doesn’t do much good, statistics show that animal testing has made the world a much safer place for people with diseases that were deadly at one point in time. The testing is also done as humanely as possible and using the lowest number of animals as possible.
Many people against animal testing are unaware that when animals are used for testing they are protected under federal law. Labs are tested extensively and research protocols are reviewed regularly. An article from the National Institutes of Health states that only experiments necessary to people’s health are done and the research is done with the minimal number of test subjects possible. All of the animals are treated “humanely and undergo the least distress possible”. The facilities do a lot of research to find which animal would be best for the …show more content…
The advancements made through animal testing have contributed in saving many lives and finding cures for diseases such as smallpox and polio. Much of the needed testing for new treatments cannot be done on models and biologically animals are the closest things to humans. This makes them an effective alternative to human testing. In an article from the American Physiological Society it states “They are susceptible to many of the same health problems, and they have short life-cycles so they can easily be studied throughout their whole life-span or across several generations. In addition, scientists can easily control the environment around the animal (diet, temperature, lighting, etc.), which would be difficult to do with