Its 5 am, monday morning, you wake up and realize that you have a splitting headache. You make your way to the cabinet, find that bottle of ibuprofen, and in a few minutes your headache has disappeared from your system and it is a great feeling that we as Americans, take for granted. Now just imagine being unable to get rid of the headache. Painful, huh? The reason that ibuprofen is able to save the day is due to the use of animals in biomedical research .Animal research and testing has become a part of our lives as Americans. Some are for the idea while others are strongly opposed to the “unethical” procedure. While both sides do have legitimate points, animal research and testing should be continued for some well justified reasons. The fact …show more content…
In the text, the AMA states that “open-heart surgical techniques, coronary bypass surgery, and heart transplantation all were developed using dogs”(lines 93-96). Without the use of animals in these different tests, the advancements stated above most likely would have never been discovered. Those who are against this practice are implying that they feel that these incredible surgeries are insignificant when compared to animals. Not to say that animals are not important as well, however, they should not be spared over the life of a human needing …show more content…
Animal rights activists often bring up the idea that testing and research could just as easily do these same tests on humans. Ethics aside, animals provide research with something that humans have yet to accomplish. Animals are much better at creating an accurate control group. Animals are much more similar to each other than humans are. Besides twins, humans are very different from one another making research and testing much harder. This is another reason for why animal use in biomedical research and testing should be