At what cost does humanity pay for the advancements in beauty and health? Every year the United States alone is responsible for a hundred million casualties in many animals due to the use of animal experimentation. This form of experimentation has been the bases of scientific research for many decades, even though, it may not be the most ethical way to discover new medical and cosmetic advancements. While they are taking advantage of their beauty products and vaccines, many lives are lost trying to perfect product for human consumption. The cost of perfecting such items is costly not for humans at least but for the animals that have to undergo so much suffering just to make another pill, medication, cream, etc. Animal testing, also known
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The truth is only a small portion of vaccines and products are produced from this inhumane method used to benefit only human kind. Monkeys are the most common test subject to practice research by injecting fatal diseases and viruses into their system. Researchers then look for ways to stabilize the contagion in the organism’s body which often is too much for the antibodies in the monkeys’ immune system to fight back. So they analyze the behavior of the contagion to acquire the vaccine required to aid the antibodies in the monkeys’ body to eliminate the disease with in the organisms’ body. Once they find a vaccine that works they then prepare it for human trials which is always scary due to the fact monkeys and humans are two different species. For example, in the article, “Of Mice or Men”, explains a situation in which London clinicians found volunteers to be the first to try a micro dose of TGN1412. The dose was tested on mice, rats, rabbits, and monkeys all in which had positive results. In just a matter of minutes the volunteers were in intense pain and were sent to the hospital immediately. The volunteers survived but they have permanent organ damage and other horrible side effects (Allen). Proving animals and humans do not have a correlation when it comes to how disease causing agents affect the human body. Scientists are intelligent people …show more content…
In fact, they are doing more harm than what they are helping worldwide. From the research above, one vaccine is not worth many lives. Animal experimentation alternatives exist humans but humans are so stubborn they refuse to make a change into a more sophisticated way of experimenting. Sure many products have been formulated throughout history but the truth is the cost is higher than the investment. Animal testing is not a good investment because it provides inaccurate results, most of the time only works on animals, the process is expensive, and comes with many potential dangers. With the help of scientist humans are capable to reduce the use of animals in order to perform scientific
The truth is only a small portion of vaccines and products are produced from this inhumane method used to benefit only human kind. Monkeys are the most common test subject to practice research by injecting fatal diseases and viruses into their system. Researchers then look for ways to stabilize the contagion in the organism’s body which often is too much for the antibodies in the monkeys’ immune system to fight back. So they analyze the behavior of the contagion to acquire the vaccine required to aid the antibodies in the monkeys’ body to eliminate the disease with in the organisms’ body. Once they find a vaccine that works they then prepare it for human trials which is always scary due to the fact monkeys and humans are two different species. For example, in the article, “Of Mice or Men”, explains a situation in which London clinicians found volunteers to be the first to try a micro dose of TGN1412. The dose was tested on mice, rats, rabbits, and monkeys all in which had positive results. In just a matter of minutes the volunteers were in intense pain and were sent to the hospital immediately. The volunteers survived but they have permanent organ damage and other horrible side effects (Allen). Proving animals and humans do not have a correlation when it comes to how disease causing agents affect the human body. Scientists are intelligent people …show more content…
In fact, they are doing more harm than what they are helping worldwide. From the research above, one vaccine is not worth many lives. Animal experimentation alternatives exist humans but humans are so stubborn they refuse to make a change into a more sophisticated way of experimenting. Sure many products have been formulated throughout history but the truth is the cost is higher than the investment. Animal testing is not a good investment because it provides inaccurate results, most of the time only works on animals, the process is expensive, and comes with many potential dangers. With the help of scientist humans are capable to reduce the use of animals in order to perform scientific