Should Animal Testing for Medication Be Banned?
Animal testing is an experiment which is carried out on animals or simply using animal as experimental object. It is sometimes referred as animal research or animal experimentation. Animal testing is used to assess the safety and effectiveness of everything from medication to cosmetics, as well as understanding how the human body works. This kind of experiment has been conducted long time ago by some scientists such as Aristoteles, Herophilus, and Erasistratus which performed the experiments to discover the functions of living organisms and is used until now. Chimpanzees, mice, dogs, and fish are some animals which is frequently used in the experiment. Many of this experiments (which was conducted on animals) contributed to life-saving cures and treatments such as the discovery of insulin, polio vaccine, etc. However, animal testing for medication also drew controversy and debate. Some people, especially the Animal Rights Group, consider that this kind of experiment is cruel and inhumane therefore it has to be banned. But, I believe animal testing for medication should not be banned because
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Penicillin, insulin, and Polio vaccine are some life-saving cures and medical treatment which was found by using animals as an experimental objects. The experiment using dog with its pancreas being removed beforehand led to the discovery of insulin which is critical to help diabetics. The polio vaccine, which originally was tested on animals, reduced the global occurrence of the disease from 350,000 cases in 1988 to 223 cases in 2012. Even the California Biomedical Research Association states that “for more than a hundred years, virtually every medical breakthrough in human and animal health has been the direct result of research using animals.” It clearly indicates that without “animal testing” we may not be able to achieve these big medical breakthroughs