Ethical Issues In Animal Experiments

a considerably large difference with our human body. Most of the human disease may even may not find in the animal body and more than 90 percent of the drug test which passed in animal experiments was still unable to safely use on the patients. According to a research in U.S., every years, there are million patients who dead from the sides effect of the medicine with medical prescription. Since most of the side effects cannot observe from the animal experiment, From 1980 to 1987, a lot of drugs have been withdrawn in the market. For example, the medicine which uses for the treatment of hepatitis has successfully passed on the animal text, it eventually led to the death of many patients. Human is not the 70 kg weight of rat. The nature of human has already different from the animal, therefore, …show more content…
However, many animals who use in laboratory are suffering from different kinds of inhumane and cruel treatment. From transporting the animal to the laboratory to the experimental environment, there is a clear violation on the ethical principles. Many projects behind the laboratory always fail to the ethical treatment of animals and reflect a lack of concern and respect on their life. Within the laboratory walls, the animals are suffering from an inhuman and horrible life. We can imagine that if one lives in a prisoner and everyday you are living with stressful because you realize your have exploited from the freedom. This is exactly how the animal in the laboratory live. During a toxicity testing, the animals have to extend their pain when they force to receive the test with chronic toxicity in seven days a week. Even though many animals will die before the end of the research, but others animal like chimpanzees may force to survive until someone kill them. They force to live without any food or water during the experiment and some of them repeated breeding until the study is finished.