Animal testing was revived in Greece about 2300 years ago; however, it became widely used only from 1850 (Understanding animal research, 2015). After this time, many breakthroughs were made such as insulin for diabetics, hepatitis C vaccine and medicine for epilepsy, which have saved countless number of animals’ and humans’ lives (AMP, 2015). Today, we have developed many alternatives to animal testing, thanks to new technologies, which are used to develop and test new medicine and treatments; nevertheless, it is still impossible to exclude animals from animal research yet. It is estimated that more than 115 million animals globally are used every year for different purposes such as developing new medicine and treatments, determining the toxicity,
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Different government regulations, including the federal Animal Welfare Act, have protected animals from needless or useless experiments for over 40 years. For example, only in the US, PETA`s regulatory testing group has already saved more than 800 000 animals from death testing (PETA, no date). Also, scientists themselves are not murderers and try to discover new medicine by involving a relatively small number of animals using, for example, test tubes and computer models, and if the new treatment seems functioning, it is required to test it on animals to ensure that it is safe and effective, American Psychological Society (no date) says. Thus, animals are used for experiments when it is very necessary. Moreover, sometimes, in order to predict accuracy, efficiency and reliability of new medicines, it is required to conduct more animal research. Festing (2010), in his article, suggests that many animal experiments fail because they are poorly designed and not enough animals are used to be statistically right. Besides medicine, which were developed via animals, only animals can be used to test organ transplantation, discover diseases, blood transfusion and other physical research, which cannot be tested online or in theory. For instance, more than 650 000 Americans have already benefited from organ transplantations, all thanks to the
Different government regulations, including the federal Animal Welfare Act, have protected animals from needless or useless experiments for over 40 years. For example, only in the US, PETA`s regulatory testing group has already saved more than 800 000 animals from death testing (PETA, no date). Also, scientists themselves are not murderers and try to discover new medicine by involving a relatively small number of animals using, for example, test tubes and computer models, and if the new treatment seems functioning, it is required to test it on animals to ensure that it is safe and effective, American Psychological Society (no date) says. Thus, animals are used for experiments when it is very necessary. Moreover, sometimes, in order to predict accuracy, efficiency and reliability of new medicines, it is required to conduct more animal research. Festing (2010), in his article, suggests that many animal experiments fail because they are poorly designed and not enough animals are used to be statistically right. Besides medicine, which were developed via animals, only animals can be used to test organ transplantation, discover diseases, blood transfusion and other physical research, which cannot be tested online or in theory. For instance, more than 650 000 Americans have already benefited from organ transplantations, all thanks to the