The Pros And Cons Of Animal Experimentation

“Dad, how do companies know if their product is safe?” a girl asks her dad. “They test it on animals” the dad replies. ‘WHAT?!” the girl shrieks. Animal experimentation is a horrible idea. Animals have to go through such great measures of pain just so that products can launch onto the market. And it’s mostly cosmetics. Animal experimentation should be illegal because it’s absurd and inhumane, animals are not intently relevant to humans, and products could fail to reach the market.

Inaugural, animal experimentation should be illegal because it’s absurd and inhumane. “Animal Testing-ProCon.org” States “The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported that in 2016 that 71,370 animals suffered pain during experiments while being given no

“Animal Testing-ProCon.org” States:”Paul Hartung of the Atson Hopkins University (UK), states that “It’s very hard to create an animal model that even equates closely to what we’re trying to achieve in the human.” Thomas Hartung, a professor of evidence-based toxicology, at Johns Hopkins University, argues for alternatives to animal testing because “We are not 70kg rats.”.” This means that we don’t have the accurate technology to build a replica of a human that’s an animal. People are divergent than animals. The effect of this is that we won’t be sure if products are safe enough for people to try because it may not have a good outcome. Accordingly, animal experimentation should be illegal because animals are not intently relevant to

The source that supports this is “Animal Testing-ProCon.org.” Which states “The California Biological Research Association states that nearly every medical breakthrough in the last 100 years has resulted directly from research using animals. Experiments in which dogs had their pancreases removed led directly to the discovery of insulin, critical to saving the lives of diabetics.The polio vaccine, tested on animals, reduced the global occurrence of the disease from 350,000 cases in 1988 to 27 cases in 2016.” But undoubtedly this can be challenging because even if we can figure out many cases to figure out diseases, researchers may ignore cures because of animal experimentation. As seen in the source “Animal Testing-ProCon.org” which states “Some chemicals that are ineffective on, or harmful to, animals prove valuable when used by humans. Aspirin, for example, is dangerous for some animal species. Intravenous vitamin C has shown to be effective in treating sepsis in humans, but makes no difference to mice. Fk-506 (tacrolimus), used to lower the risk of organ transplant rejection, was "almost shelved" because of animal test results, according to neurologist Aysha Akhtar, MD, MPH.report on Slate.com stated that a "source of human suffering may be the dozens of promising drugs that get shelved when they cause problems in animals that may not be relevant for humans.””