Animal Testing Is Ethical And Necessary

While animal testing remains an ethical debate today, there are ways individuals can help settle the ongoing issue at hand. It shouldn’t be necessary for animals to be killed in the range of thousands every year. What many people do not know is that many animals are now locked up in cages. They are tested and are given harsh treatments. They experience loneliness, stress and discomfort. We do not need to put animals through the unnecessary and painfully cruel reality that takes place during the use of animal testing. There is a solution to this issue that provides a positive outlook for the future of science and those who have been fighting against the inhumane standards of animal testing. “Since the 1960’s, both humane organizations and a …show more content…
We use computers for so many various tasks these days, so why not scientific experimentation? Many animal lives can be spared the pain and suffering from animal testing because we can now use computers to conduct experiments and input data that would have previously been retrieved at the expense of an animal life. Not only can we eliminate animal suffering, but using computers in these experiments has proven to be more accurate because we can manipulate the data based on previous knowledge. “Right now…the animal models that address toxicity testing get it right around five to twenty-five percent of the time. Computer models get it right more like seventy to ninety percent of the time” (Judson 33). With those statistics it is hard to condone animal testing that is done in such large and unscrupulous amounts. There may have been a time for animal testing when it proved to be useful and beneficial to humanity and one could therefore justify animal suffering, but that time is no more. Not when modern technology and computers provide more accurate results and do not require an animal going through unspeakable amounts of pain to get those results. “Today, technology enables us to study human disease at the genetic level—precisely where species differentiation is most pronounced, making animal modeled research hopelessly outdated. Even …show more content…
The in vitro method uses plants, test tubes, microbes, or cell cultures to discover various results or reactions to products instead of testing it on an animal or to reduce the amount of animals used in testing. “In vitro methods, or the analysis of tissues kept alive outside a donor organism, which have applications to the production of vaccines, antitoxins, and antisera. Lower organisms and plants, including microorganism (used for ‘studying the properties of living matter when organized as separate independent cells’ and in the Ames test for carcinogens…” (Fox 177). The in vitro method is such a creative way to test various products and vaccines, which do not require nearly as many animals to be used for experimentation. This gives scientists a new and inventive way to study what kind of reactions a product or material will produce. There are some very interesting and specific types of in vitro methods used to test various types of experiments that have been very useful in reducing or replacing animal testing. For example, “Eytex is an in vitro procedure that measures eye irritancy via a protein alteration system. A vegetable protein from the jack bean mimics this reaction of the cornea to an alien substance. When a chemical is introduced, degree of irritancy is measured by cloudiness of the protein. Skintex is an in vitro method to assess skin irritancy that uses pumpkin rind