The issue of whether we should allow or not allow animal testing has been widely debated in our society recently. The movement to eliminate animal testing extends beyond the animal experimentation production. Although they are not required by law, several tests are commonly performed that expose mice, rats, rabbits, and guinea pigs to poison ingredients. They are generally convicted to "lethal dose" tests, in which animals are forced to swallow large amounts of a test chemical to determine the dose that causes death. Although there is another way we can limit the experimentation on animals by using the 3R’s. If we can’t stop experimentation might as well, try to limit them. Therefore, I will be stating why we should not use animals and how …show more content…
A variety of different arguments have been put forward about this issue. Some researchers and scientist have believed that using animal testing can be unreliable. In fact, using mice and rats to test the safety of drugs in-humans are only accurate 43% of the time, a recent study found. The US drug corporation funds $50 billion per year in research, but the acceptance rate of new drugs is identical as it was 50 years ago; only 6% of 4,300 worldwide companies absorb new drug with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration since 1950. Not to mention, In an article published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers found that medical treatments developed in animals rarely translated to humans and warned that “patients and physicians should remain cautious about extrapolating the finding of prominent animal research to the care of human disease … poor replication of even high-quality animal studies should be expected by those who conduct clinical research.”(7) There is a moral blind spot in the treatment of animals that enable us to justify the cruelties for the perceived benefits of