Animal Testing: Humane Society International

Humane Society International is the one of the world’s largest and most effective animal protection organization. It has different organizations in different countries that are dedicated to protect the animals from all over the world and prevent them from any hardship that they may face. Their purpose with this article is to inform both animal testers and the rest of the public about the less expensive alternatives that are available, which has proved to be more effective than animal testing itself. This article depicts the difference between the costs of animal testing compared to the costs of alternative testing. It provides various examples of how alternative testing has been way more effective and at the same time way less expensive also. …show more content…
Pippin is the director of academic affairs for the physicians committee, which is responsible for medicine in education and research. The purpose of this article is to expose the differences between animals and humans. This website states that animals produce different results for testing based on their age, sex and developmental stage. This goes to show that when the results are approved and accessible to humans, laboratories are putting people at risk because of the fact that everyone is different. This article mentions that adverse drug reactions are account for 2.2 million hospitalizations and 106,000 deaths annually. This statistic shows that animal testing evidently is not doing its job as most people thought. A particular section of this article lists some of the drugs that were tested on animals before being on the market. These include thalidomide, oraflex, flenac and cylert. Most of these drugs listed has caused detrimental effects on humans, including 10,000 children born with limb-reduction defects, severe liver toxicity, liver failure, and in sometimes even death. When tested in animals, these drugs showed reactions only when given in extreme high doses, but when attempted on humans the results sometimes leads to death. This source is essential to our research because it goes in details about the differences between the drugs reaction in humans and in animals. It effectively talks about the harm that drugs tested on animals has on humans, and to make it worse most times we humans don’t even know that these drugs were animal tested. This source is extremely biased and was written for the main purpose of persuading the audience to believe that animal testing is harmful, not only to them but also their future children as