Animal testing or animal research is the use of animal instead of humans for scientific experimentation. Overall it is estimated that 50 to 100 million animals used worldwide from rats and mice all the way to non-human primates. Sources of laboratory animals vary from country to country, some are bred and raised for the purpose of experimentation why others are caught in the wild or bought from a dealer. Most animal testing are located in universities, and medical school. Animal testing includes tests on genetic, behavioral research, biomedical research, drug testing and even toxicity test. This topic is very controversial, supporters or the topic such as Pro-Test argues that it benefit to human health and has also made the medical flourish.
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When we are looking at animal testing we can see that with animal testing it has allowed the medical field too fully flourish. Without animal testing there wouldn’t be much medicines that would be available because of the fact that the FDA wouldn’t even allow a drug to be sold without testing for any drastic side effect. For example without animal testing doctors wouldn’t even know how much of a dosage to give to a patient, what side effect there are, and even if it would harm them more the cure them. Without animal testing there wouldn’t be any way for us to fully understand the drug. With animal testing doctors have been able to developed many vaccines for diseases such as polio, mumps, and rubella. Running medical experiment on animals allow scientist to determine if a medicine is effective in a much more efficient and faster way. Furthermore it also insures that a medicine is safe before a human tries …show more content…
Every animal has the right to live, there isn’t a hierarchy in which humans are at the top. Humans have no rights to take away a life of an animal just for improving their life. Humans and animals can be looked at as very similar in that they both feel pain. In an ad campaign to stop animal testing by Lush it depicts a women being experimented on as if she was a live rat. This shows what an animal has to go through when being tested upon. If we put ourselves in the animal’s shoes how would we feel to be tested on without knowing the possible
When we are looking at animal testing we can see that with animal testing it has allowed the medical field too fully flourish. Without animal testing there wouldn’t be much medicines that would be available because of the fact that the FDA wouldn’t even allow a drug to be sold without testing for any drastic side effect. For example without animal testing doctors wouldn’t even know how much of a dosage to give to a patient, what side effect there are, and even if it would harm them more the cure them. Without animal testing there wouldn’t be any way for us to fully understand the drug. With animal testing doctors have been able to developed many vaccines for diseases such as polio, mumps, and rubella. Running medical experiment on animals allow scientist to determine if a medicine is effective in a much more efficient and faster way. Furthermore it also insures that a medicine is safe before a human tries …show more content…
Every animal has the right to live, there isn’t a hierarchy in which humans are at the top. Humans have no rights to take away a life of an animal just for improving their life. Humans and animals can be looked at as very similar in that they both feel pain. In an ad campaign to stop animal testing by Lush it depicts a women being experimented on as if she was a live rat. This shows what an animal has to go through when being tested upon. If we put ourselves in the animal’s shoes how would we feel to be tested on without knowing the possible