“Not a single creature on earth has more or less right to be here.”-Anthony Douglas Williams
Animal Experimentation should be prohibited because it is not always certain, animals are very different from humans, and the outcome can drive scientists away from possible cures.
To begin with, some drugs that pass the animal testing are not always going to be safe when using it on humans. From (sciencemuseum.org.uk), a drug was tested on numerous animals and the babies that were born from them did not have any birth defects. Later on, when this drug (Thalidomide, a sleeping pill), was taken by pregnant women, it caused 10,000 babies to be born with a great deal of deformities. This test had a positive effect of hearts of mice, but it also caused cardiac deaths and heart attacks in humans before product release. Not everyone can depend on drugs that have successful results from being tested on animals. …show more content…
There are many differences between humans and animals. Their cellular, anatomical, and metabolic differences, make the animals a bad test subject for testing drugs that humans are going to use. A Professor of Clinical Neuroimaging at Aston University, Paul Furlong, stated, “...it’s very hard to create an animal model that even equates closely to what we’re trying to achieve in the human.” Another Professor, Thomas Hartung said, “We are not 70 kg rats.” From (https://www.crueltyfreeinternational.org), the article stated, “The harmful use of animals in experiments is not only cruel but also often ineffective. Animals do not get many of the human diseases that people do, such as major types of heart disease, many types of cancer, HIV, Parkinson’s disease, or schizophrenia.” These animals that go through these tests, are not like humans at all, so the effects of humans and animals would vary
Animal Experimentation should be prohibited because it is not always certain, animals are very different from humans, and the outcome can drive scientists away from possible cures.
To begin with, some drugs that pass the animal testing are not always going to be safe when using it on humans. From (sciencemuseum.org.uk), a drug was tested on numerous animals and the babies that were born from them did not have any birth defects. Later on, when this drug (Thalidomide, a sleeping pill), was taken by pregnant women, it caused 10,000 babies to be born with a great deal of deformities. This test had a positive effect of hearts of mice, but it also caused cardiac deaths and heart attacks in humans before product release. Not everyone can depend on drugs that have successful results from being tested on animals. …show more content…
There are many differences between humans and animals. Their cellular, anatomical, and metabolic differences, make the animals a bad test subject for testing drugs that humans are going to use. A Professor of Clinical Neuroimaging at Aston University, Paul Furlong, stated, “...it’s very hard to create an animal model that even equates closely to what we’re trying to achieve in the human.” Another Professor, Thomas Hartung said, “We are not 70 kg rats.” From (https://www.crueltyfreeinternational.org), the article stated, “The harmful use of animals in experiments is not only cruel but also often ineffective. Animals do not get many of the human diseases that people do, such as major types of heart disease, many types of cancer, HIV, Parkinson’s disease, or schizophrenia.” These animals that go through these tests, are not like humans at all, so the effects of humans and animals would vary