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Introduction: “Is the use of laboratory animals for drug testing is justified?” Animal testing is a practise that has been done for many years for the fundamental purpose of investigating problems and side effects that may occur when using a chemical substance or a drug on the human body. Rather than testing it on a human the scientist tests this substance on an animal closely related to humans with both genetics and structure e.g. apes and orang-utan. After this is done, the scientist then considers the safety of the chemical and chooses if it is safe enough to get tested on human volunteers. The same procedure happens to investigate a drug that may cure some sort of illness /disease. This method was identified and socially acceptable in 1980’s, testing drugs on animals has many beneficial advantages which promotes the use of it. Testing drugs on animals has become so successful with a large number of advantages that has benefited many industries in the past and present, it will also continue to be helpful to society. Using laboratory animals for drug testing would raise the question “is testing drugs on animals ethical.” The animals in the …show more content…
The other disadvantages would be highly concentrated on the biological issues; this is because many problems could occur that are unnatural such as mutations. Mutations are a permanent change in the sequence of DNA that usually cause harmful effects to the physical body; for the animal being tested this is caused by foreign chemicals of the drug that cause mutations. When this happens the mutation causes changes to the chromosomes which makes the physical appearance of the animal change, this becomes as disadvantage when the animal develops a mutation that may be in favour of the animal e.g. increased
Introduction: “Is the use of laboratory animals for drug testing is justified?” Animal testing is a practise that has been done for many years for the fundamental purpose of investigating problems and side effects that may occur when using a chemical substance or a drug on the human body. Rather than testing it on a human the scientist tests this substance on an animal closely related to humans with both genetics and structure e.g. apes and orang-utan. After this is done, the scientist then considers the safety of the chemical and chooses if it is safe enough to get tested on human volunteers. The same procedure happens to investigate a drug that may cure some sort of illness /disease. This method was identified and socially acceptable in 1980’s, testing drugs on animals has many beneficial advantages which promotes the use of it. Testing drugs on animals has become so successful with a large number of advantages that has benefited many industries in the past and present, it will also continue to be helpful to society. Using laboratory animals for drug testing would raise the question “is testing drugs on animals ethical.” The animals in the …show more content…
The other disadvantages would be highly concentrated on the biological issues; this is because many problems could occur that are unnatural such as mutations. Mutations are a permanent change in the sequence of DNA that usually cause harmful effects to the physical body; for the animal being tested this is caused by foreign chemicals of the drug that cause mutations. When this happens the mutation causes changes to the chromosomes which makes the physical appearance of the animal change, this becomes as disadvantage when the animal develops a mutation that may be in favour of the animal e.g. increased