Animal Testing Moral

When it comes to the topic of testing consumer products before putting them out on the market, a controversial issue has been whether animal testing is still viable or not. On one hand, many people such as protesters are against animal testing and experimentation, arguing that alternatives such as scientific inventions, computer modeling techniques, and volunteer testing would be as effective as animal testing. On the other hand, some argue that it’s viable, it makes products safe for us to use, has helped discover treatments for diseases. Some medical procedures tested on animals has led to millions of lived being saved, benefiting us. I agree that animal testing isn’t viable because while having alternatives to animal testing they are not …show more content…
We were taught in church that animals have a soul, feelings, a life like ours that we need to look out for and nourish because they cannot do so on their own, help those in need whether by words or actions. I would agree with that, but we are not all morally raised by our parents to love and protect those who are being harmed. Not all of us go to church where a priest teaches us the moral concept of animals being like us, with having a soul, and feelings, looking out for one another. Yet here we are against animal testing, it’s not a belief, but an abuse occurring to these animals. Animal testing in other words, is abuse no different from any kind of other abuse, child abuse, man abuse, woman abuse they are all the same. They both occur behind a closed door, have an abuser harming them for reasons that are unknown to them, they are defenseless, they are scared and they are alone. The only difference is that we speak up for all the other types of abuses just not animal …show more content…
Thanks to the animal testing, scientists have been able to assemble treatments for diseases like cancer, aids, and heart diseases, providing a longer and safer future for us. Now animal testing is not required in order to achieve those successful accomplishments. Alternative methods to animal testing are now available, with its results being effective for the humans. Although, the computer programs for medical students are great, a human patient simulator is a stunning substitution to the animals in medical schools, it gives the medical students a real life like experience to what they should expect during a situation of surgery, something they can’t get on a computer. Animals and humans have different ways of reacting to medication and chemicals, instead of helping us they are harming us by allowing us to use products were approved when they’ve only been tested on