The Truth Of Animal Experimentation
Animal experimentations consists of the careless and damaging testing of commercial and scientific products on all sort of animals, for differents purposes, such as: safety, benefits or toxicity for the human use. We are all aware of the existence of current regulations for this activity, but the actual data of the animals protected by the Animal Welfare Act (AWA), a law approved in 1966, is just the 5% . 1,134,693 animals were reported by AWA in 2010. However since the law excludes farm animals, birds, rats and mice, the real number is unknown. ”Estimates of the number of animals not counted by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) …show more content…
It was linked to heart attacks and strokes in up to 139,000 humans”.
3.- Benefits of non-animal testing.- Non-animal testing technology goes from computerized patients, models and simulations to the give of little quantities of a substance to humans that would only affect the cellular level. The results of this new testing seem to be more reliable, accurate,cost-effective, practical, expedient and specially cruelty free.
“The “Lethal Dose 50” (LD50) test forces animals to ingest toxic and lethal substances to the endpoint of where 50% of the animals in the study die—and those that do not are later killed. The late Dr. Bjӧrn Ekwall (Cytotoxicology Laboratory in Sweden) developed a replacement for the LD50 test that measured toxicity at a precision rate of up to 85% accuracy compared to the LD50 rate of 61-65%. This test, far more accurate than the animal models, uses donated human tissue rather than animal.” (Alternatives in Testing)
4.- Public Opinion Over the years, the support for animal testing has been decreasing. The lower support comes from the younger adults, while the high scores for acceptance are ran by the 65 year olds, and older ones. Women, who are more sensitive, are more likely to oppose animal experimentation, even twice than
Animal experimentations consists of the careless and damaging testing of commercial and scientific products on all sort of animals, for differents purposes, such as: safety, benefits or toxicity for the human use. We are all aware of the existence of current regulations for this activity, but the actual data of the animals protected by the Animal Welfare Act (AWA), a law approved in 1966, is just the 5% . 1,134,693 animals were reported by AWA in 2010. However since the law excludes farm animals, birds, rats and mice, the real number is unknown. ”Estimates of the number of animals not counted by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) …show more content…
It was linked to heart attacks and strokes in up to 139,000 humans”.
3.- Benefits of non-animal testing.- Non-animal testing technology goes from computerized patients, models and simulations to the give of little quantities of a substance to humans that would only affect the cellular level. The results of this new testing seem to be more reliable, accurate,cost-effective, practical, expedient and specially cruelty free.
“The “Lethal Dose 50” (LD50) test forces animals to ingest toxic and lethal substances to the endpoint of where 50% of the animals in the study die—and those that do not are later killed. The late Dr. Bjӧrn Ekwall (Cytotoxicology Laboratory in Sweden) developed a replacement for the LD50 test that measured toxicity at a precision rate of up to 85% accuracy compared to the LD50 rate of 61-65%. This test, far more accurate than the animal models, uses donated human tissue rather than animal.” (Alternatives in Testing)
4.- Public Opinion Over the years, the support for animal testing has been decreasing. The lower support comes from the younger adults, while the high scores for acceptance are ran by the 65 year olds, and older ones. Women, who are more sensitive, are more likely to oppose animal experimentation, even twice than