Imagine a world without vaccines. What starts as a small cough can grow into something much worse, and without the proper medicine to treat our infections and illnesses, we can land ourselves in an early grave. Because of the discoveries made by scientists with the help of animal testing, we’ve gained access to many different kinds of medicine and antibiotics.
Animal testing has been used for years to improve our lives, but many people believe it is cruel and inhumane. These people are commonly known as animal rights activists, but they’ve also been called antivivisectionists. Vivisection literally means “the dissection or cutting of a live animal”. Animal rights activist use the term to refer to all kinds of animal experimentation, though actual scientists will strongly object. It is surgery conducted on a live animal for a purpose.
The first recorded history of vivisection goes back thousands of years to ancient Greece. The Greeks believed that animals were lesser beings than humans, and so it wasn’t frowned upon for physicians to dissect animals for anatomical purposes. By opening up a pig or a sheep, a doctor could discover much about human anatomy without harming a person. In addition to providing …show more content…
Computer modeling is tricky and doesn’t give the full experience that a hands on experiment can. The computer can malfunction and won’t give accurate results because it is a machine and not a living thing. It’s the same with in vitro testing which consists of human cells that are grown to imitate human organs and organ system. Research with human volunteers can be considered to be worse than animal testing, since an experiment gone wrong can ultimately end in murder. Activists claim that these methods of testing are cheaper and more humane, but they never bring up the numbers to back their claims and the idea of testing on human beings is far from what many would call
Animal testing has been used for years to improve our lives, but many people believe it is cruel and inhumane. These people are commonly known as animal rights activists, but they’ve also been called antivivisectionists. Vivisection literally means “the dissection or cutting of a live animal”. Animal rights activist use the term to refer to all kinds of animal experimentation, though actual scientists will strongly object. It is surgery conducted on a live animal for a purpose.
The first recorded history of vivisection goes back thousands of years to ancient Greece. The Greeks believed that animals were lesser beings than humans, and so it wasn’t frowned upon for physicians to dissect animals for anatomical purposes. By opening up a pig or a sheep, a doctor could discover much about human anatomy without harming a person. In addition to providing …show more content…
Computer modeling is tricky and doesn’t give the full experience that a hands on experiment can. The computer can malfunction and won’t give accurate results because it is a machine and not a living thing. It’s the same with in vitro testing which consists of human cells that are grown to imitate human organs and organ system. Research with human volunteers can be considered to be worse than animal testing, since an experiment gone wrong can ultimately end in murder. Activists claim that these methods of testing are cheaper and more humane, but they never bring up the numbers to back their claims and the idea of testing on human beings is far from what many would call