Animal testing has always interested me. I always knew without medical experiments conducted on animals none of our medical breakthroughs would have been made possible. However subjecting animals to pain and suffering creates a moral dilemma. In my research, I found that strict policies are put in place both federal and state. Also funding for animal based research is often difficult to obtain, and once it is, their experiments are heavily regulated. I have always been pro animal testing because I knew if we didn’t do it there would be no way to create medicine efficiently. However, the more research I did on the types of test these animals go through truly shocked me. This interest me on how we make rules and regulations to make the lives …show more content…
A huge organization that is opposed to animal testing is the Humane
Society of America. They believe that cruelty towards animals for human profit is unacceptable, even though it is saving lives of millions of humans. However, there is still unreliability when it comes to animal testing according to recent studies. For example, “90% of drugs fail in human trials despite promising results in animal tests – whether on safety grounds or because they do not work” (Cruelty Free International p4). This shows that even if a medical product shows signs of promising outcomes during animal testing, the probability of it being effective on humans has a low success rate. Not only does animal testing have a low success rate, it is profoundly expensive “The US drug industry invests $50 billion per year in research, but the approval rate of new drugs is the same as it was 50 years ago.Only 6% of 4,300 international companies involved in drug development have registered a new drug with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration since 1950” (Cruelty Free International p5). Although animal testing has created many life saving medicines, the cost of money and lives of millions of animals raises the question, is animal testing really worth