The Pros And Cons Of Animal Experimentation

It is no doubt that animal experimentation has given rise to numerous advancements in medical treatments and medicines resulting in saving of human lives. People, scientists, and biologists are divided on the issue of animal research making them the perfect audience for this report (Saraf & Kumaraswamy, 2013). Despite the united agreement that animal experimentation saves lives, people are increasingly questioning if this form of testing is necessary or ethical. Owing to this, there is a need to adopt a type of animal experimentation, which upholds human continuity, and at the same time enforce strict regulations to regulate people who engage in this practice.

Animal experimentations represent a foundation of biomedical sciences. They do not

Animals put under experiments endure traumatic and avoidable tests. Hajar (2011) suggests that a number of animal experiments are wasteful, harsh, and ridiculous. This researcher states that in one experiment pregnant rabbits were given cocaine with the aim of studying the effects of drug use on their offspring. In another research, cats were shot in the skull to demonstrate that this kind of wound affects breathing (Saraf & Kumaraswamy, 2013). The nature of animal experimentation has hardly changed over the last few decades implying that millions of animals continue to anguish in avoidable tests annually (Saraf & Kumaraswamy, 2013). Animal experimentation should be stopped for perpetuating cruel mistreatments of animals. Continuation of the practice contravenes leads to ethical mistreatments of

The research is xenotransplantation, which refers to the transplantation of body organs from an animal into a human. Saraf & Kumaraswamy (2013) suggest that preclinical animal trials employing transgenic pig organs into baboons are being done at the Western Ontario University, Canada. Such experiments will lead to the death of both animals and human beings. Saraf & Kumaraswamy (2013) point out that no human beneficiary of an animal organ has ever lived because human bodies reject animal. Even if it becomes successful, xenotransplantation will pose a threat to human life because it presents a risk that unknown pathogens like virus may be passed from an animal to humans (Saraf & Kumaraswamy, 2013). Similarly, killing an animal to supply humans with organs is not only cruel to animals but also unethical. Therefore, animal experimentation should be stopped because it may lead to the death of both animals and human