Gavage tubes, or tubes used to pump food or medicine, are inserted into primates’ mouths and noses even through the U.S Food and Drug Administration reported that animal tests have a 92% failure rate in predicting the efficiency and/or safety of pharmaceuticals. This means 2% of rats, mice, and primates that go through years of expensive and painful testing are suffering for no one. According to Rachel Hajar, M. D., Animals have been used repeatedly throughout the history of biomedical research. Early Greek physician-scientists, such as Aristotle, (384 – 322 BC) and Erasistratus, (304 – 258 BC), performed experiments on living animals (Animal Testing and Medicine). Animal testing is a practice used throughout the world (and is required in …show more content…
Scientists have developed computer models, and have grown human cells into three dimensional structures used in the innovative ‘organ-on-chips.’ Human tissue has been donated form biopsies, cosmetic surgery and transplants to be used instead of animals (Alternatives to animal testing, crueltyfreeinternational.org) According to nsi.org, Chromosome aberration costs $30,000 to do an animal, but only $20,00 to do an in vitro test (a test in a glass dish using human cells); sister chromatid exchange is $14,000 cheaper to do an in vitro test than an animal test; a DNA synthesis done outside of a living organism would save the tester $21,000 on the $32,000 cost to complete this test on animals (Cost of Animal and Non-Animal Testing). It is not logical to waste that sum of money on a more harmful way of testing medicine and cosmetics, Laboratories would save $25,000 on just those three tests. Researchers might argue that, “without animal research, millions of dogs…would be dead from more than 200 diseases” (animal Research and Its Benefits to Both Humans and Animals). The money saved from alternative testing methods, can be used towards research to help find cures to these diseases using alternative methods. Also, the money can be used to make scientific advances in discovering new ways to test products that don’t involve animals. In short, although …show more content…
Using donated human cells rather than stolen animals to test human cosmetics and medicine will produce more accurate test results.
“A recent study which compared the activity of human genes important for sepsis, trauma and burns with the equivalent mouse genes revealed that human and mice use very different sets of genes to cope with these insults”( failure of the Animal Model, NSA.org)
The mouse and human genome are desperate; they won’t produce the same results. The different cells used to heal will produce a false result that won’t compare to what would happen in the human body. This renders the mouse genome useless for testing human reactions. Scientist might opine that animals were a beneficial part in the creating vaccinations to measles, tetanus, diphtheria, mumps, and small pox. (Animal research and its Benefits to both Humans and Animals, news-medical.com) However, in 2015,
“Scientist in the U.S. use approximately 11-25 million animals in research of which only less than 1 million are not rats, mice, birds or fish” (USDA Annual reports on Animal Usage in