Animal Testing For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals

With the increasing use of drugs in society today, there has been need to conduct drug test on people in various setups for various reasons. Testing drugs on people have been an ethical issue for years. Over time the types of experimentation that we can do on humans has become much more restricted for ethical reasons. But, we are still testing drugs on humans to determine the drug’s effectiveness as well as the side effects that are associated with the drug. Almost every drug that we take for big or small problems were once tested on humans to determine the effectiveness of the drug. These drugs are made for all types of different diseases and disorders. But we need to consider the welfare of people, who this medicine is originally being …show more content…
From the moral point of view experimenting on animals to develop products and medicines that benefit humans should not be allowed and there should be laws implemented. the testing of animals are not only a major ethical concern, but an incredibly dangerous hazard to the world. The ethical part of these tests is enough to stop all animal testing. It has even been admitted by scientists that animal testing has caused a delay in developments of cures for many diseases. Groups have been developed to help spread the truth of animal testing such as the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and the Animal Rights International (ARI). PETA as well as ARI are groups helping to uncover what really happens in these labs. By knowing the experimenting of animals, do not really help in medical advancement, and the risk it is posing on our society, Scientists say that animal experiments are not to show the safety or effectiveness of the drugs on human beings, but they help us to decide whether a particular drug should be tested on …show more content…
The requirement of animal testing is justified by them on the plea that the after animal testing, the drug can then be tested on a small human group before going into the large scale clinical trials. It is not worth the abuse of millions of animals per year considering the result of that inhuman act. We are not only mistreating the animals but that we are truly hurting ourselves. The setbacks to our medical advancement, unreliability of the animal experiments as well as the cruelty performed on defenseless animals are all reasons enough to put an end to animal testing. When looking at every aspect of animal testing it is obvious more negative consequences are created as compared to the amount of good being done. It would not be good to continue with an unethical and defective method of testing and put our community at