Argument Against Animal Experimentation

Animal Experimentation has played a crucial role in medical advancements and medical training in the United States and around the globe for multiple decades now. In order for new medicines, treatments, and surgical procedures to be allowed legally, they have to prove to be safe and effective by government funded organizations, like the FDA. Animals used in research have been proven necessary for these newly founded medicines, treatments, and procedures to be brought into practice. For instance, kidney and liver transplantation. This type of research, animal experimentation, has lead the way for new drugs as well. While scientists search for a drug to cure Alzheimer’s Disease, my grandfather, William G. Jenkins, has passed away from the depressing disease. Having seen …show more content…
In view of this experience, it has shed a new light on the subject for me. Dr. Thomas E. Starzi, the man credited with inventing organ transplantation using animal testing, states, “I believe we need to restore trust of society in medicine” (Parker-pope). Meaning as a nation, we have the obligation to ensure trust in doctors and scientist who use animals in medical research to create better medicine for the world. However, the issue in this field of study, animal experimentation for medicine, is coming across is the animal rights activist creating blockades in the path of improvement. What these rightist do not understand is that they are in the way of important cures to life threatening diseases. In order to continue animal experimentation in the medical industry, animal rights need to be voted down, the uninformed P.E.T.A. followers need to be aware of what they are campaigning, and the critical role this type of testing plays far exceeds any amount of suffering animals go through. The results of animal testing have saved millions and will continue to save even more as long as animal experimentation proceeds. Animals used in medical research are vital to improving medicine for