Animal Testing Pros And Cons

ovember 4, 2015

Animal Testing

One of the most argued topics in research is animal experimentation. Because animals are in many ways similar to humans in how they breathe, digest food, reproduce, and respond to infections, the knowledge scientists have gained from examining and experimenting on animals has advanced what they know about humans as well. In the United States, we use animals to develop medical treatments, determine the toxicity of medications, check the safety of products destined for human use, and other biomedical, commercial, and health care uses. Since there are pros and cons for the use of animal testing, there are groups and acts that are for and against these testings. Careful and controlled animal testing would benefit

Advocates also state that there are no alternative method for researching a complete living organism, there is no mistreatment of animals while testing. Animal testing is also extremely useful in military defense because animals can simulate battle wounds and have researchers can have an idea of what the exposures of agents used in war are.

Animal testing is the only way to get drugs to market. The Society of Toxicology, who would know about this sort of thing, say simply: "Research involving laboratory animals is necessary to ensure and enhance human and animal health and protection of the environment." Every drug given a licence for use will have been tested on animals, because there is simply no way that an ethics committee would allow testing on humans until it has been tried on suitable animals first.

Opponents of animal testing say that it is cruel and inhumane to experiment on animals, that alternative methods available to researchers can replace animal testing, and that animals are so different from human beings that research on animals often yields irrelevant