Arguments Against Animal Testing

In 2012, cardiovascular diseases alone killed 17.5 million people. If such diseases are capable of killing this amount of lives, how do our kind survive? Humans have no distinct qualities that they could use in nature. The only redeeming quality they have is their complex brains. Throughout history, starting from the homo sapiens during the Stone Age, humans have survive through the tools they create. Through the tools and technology they perfected and employed, they are able to prolong their life. One of the fields humans have succeeded is the medical field, and it is partly because of using our animal friends in our experiments that mankind has survive till now. Without sacrificing animals, such medicines like insulin treatments wouldn’t

Their moralistic belief that harming a living creature is sinful. They reason that even though the scale difference between humans and animals are obvious the audacity to kill another living organism would go against their morals and religion. Humans can speak and reason; however, animals cannot. These people even imply that the questions “Can they reason?” or “Can they talk?” are not the valid questions to ask, but the question “Can they suffer?” is the valid question to ask. Animals do suffer. They feel pain (Source B), but is that really the point to stop animal testing? Animals do feel pain in a biological perspective; however, animals and humans do not think alike, feel alike, or experience alike. This proves that humans and animals are not on the same scale (Source

In the United Kingdom alone, the animals used in scientific research are mostly mice, which accounts sixty-seven percent of all animals used in research, and the least were reptiles/amphibians, which consist of less than one percent, followed by other mammals, which consist of three percent (Source C). Scientists are reasonable enough to use mice for experiments because these animals can reproduce quickly, have a short lifespan, and coincidentally resemble humans in terms of genetic, biological and behavior characteristics. Many people are conflicted between both sides. They have their moral beliefs that hurting another creature is sinful and evil yet also know that without the sacrifice, the current medical technology would probably take a long time to reach like now. These people are wise enough to create a third choice: to restrict the number of animals for research purposes [For example, the use of 2,000,000 mice for research purpose per year is acceptable or excluding mammals of the higher animal pyramid for animal testing] (Source