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The Pros And Cons Of Animal Testing

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implementing laws such as Australia. The very laws meant to protect the innocent lives of these animals is being treated like an option over an actual law.
In addition to it being unsafe for humans and morally wrong to use animal testing, there are new discovered alternatives to animal testing. Meredith Cohn, writer of Alternatives to animal testing gaining grounds says, “ Many mainstream researchers are now more strictly adhering to a concept called the Three Rs: reduction in use of animals, refinement of the tests and replacement with new technology when possible” (Cohn 2010). Changing to these methods should be more widely used because in time we could save the lives of the animals being experimented on. Reducing the use of animals will …show more content…

Scientist have the ability to take human and animal cells into the lab and test the cells for allergies, toxicity, and other occuring problems. Writer of Animal Testing comes alive in the US, Eli Dolgin says, “The research found that the more cellular pathways perturbed by a chemical as observed in a lab dish, the lower the dose at which the chemical causes toxicity in animals” (Dolgin 2010, p.1348). These in lab studies Scientists are able avoid the use of animals and as a result of this lease of the product is used for these smaller samples. In the end, these companies are able to spend less money. Advancements in the twentieth century have give the ability to switch to these methods and do not take long to make …show more content…

Scientists have been able to make studies with virtual tissues and computer modeling. This takes already known cells and know information about a product’s toxicity and gives the ability to come up with safer outcomes before the testing process is to actually occur. In Eli Dolgins studies, he later quotes the US National Institutes of Health by saying, “The Us National Institutes of Health, aim to determine an experiments compound’s safety earlier in the drug discovery process by comparing its molecular characteristics to a database of around 3,000 pharmaceutical compounds and 7,000 environmental chemicals with known toxicity profiles” (Dolgin 2010, p. 1348). Toxicity is usually checked with this before the Scientists move to the next step and use sheets made of skin cells called EpiDerm and ThinCert. Very valuable in these experiments and avoids the possible harming and death of humans and

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