Have you ever wondered where do your leather shoes, drugs, and cosmetics come from? It is estimated that over 100 million animals are scorched, poisoned, and abused in US labs every year. Scientists have different feelings about the experiments and researches on animals whether it has a great impact on animals or not. Although many scientists support animal testing because it helps to find additional cures for many diseases that help to save humans. A scientist should not be allowed because animal testing is unethical, wasteful, and can use many alternatives methods that save them. The first reason is that animal testing is unethical. Animals have killed, intoxicated, and captivated during experiments. This causes so much pain for them. According …show more content…
Scientists use animals to study because it is possible to obtain information that sometimes cannot be learned from another method. A good example is a development of a vaccine for small pox from a cow. According to T.K. Pal, “animals are used for proper understanding and pathogenesis of different diseases, to undertake drug trial, to generate a variety of biomedical products like vaccines, in immunological studies, etc.” (7). Furthermore, Eric Johnson adds a statement of Foundation of Biomedical Research that "If you've ever taken antibiotics, had a vaccine, had chemotherapy, an MRI, a blood transfusion, dialysis, an organ transplant, bypass surgery or joint replacement, you have been the beneficiary of research that started with lab animals”. Laurie Pycroft claims that there are some methods that cannot be done without access to live organisms, we would know far less about the function of the cardiovascular system, how digestion works, hormonal interactions, and a vast array of other data which none of your proposed alternatives could even hope to elucidate (36). According to Izpisúa Belmonte and Juan Carlos, an exquisite process for turning a handful of identical cells into all the specialized organs and tissues needed to build an entire complex organism—whether it is a mouse or a person. That virtuoso performance occurs in the weeks