The Pros And Cons Of Animal Testing

Animal Testing for Experimental Use The Animal Welfare Act manages all the animal testing that happens in the United States of America (USA), it regulates how animals are treated, what type of testing is done and what is seen as humane and inhumane treatment. In Canada, about 3.02 million animals are tested on for experiments such as; biology lessons, medical training, chemicals testing, drug testing, food testing, and cosmetics testing. Testing on animals can be dated back to 500 BC (Background 2016). Companies like Covergirl, Estée Lauder, Dove, Johnson & Johnson, Tide, Windex among many other

Pew Research Center had done a survey and found out that 50 percent of U.S. adults are against the use of animals in scientific research (Pew Research Center 2015). While some animal testing is used to see if medication or other products would affect humans, it is unnecessary because animals react differently than human bodies to medication or other products. For example, Aspirin helps people when they are sick but went given to a rat the side effects are deadly and may lead to other negative health effects. An animal's system is so different from a human’s system. In today’s world, testing on animals is unnecessary. One reason this it is unnecessary is because there are newer methods that exist that can be used to test products. Secondly, alternative methods are cheaper than testing products on animals, which is a much better use of the government’s research money. Finally, the testing that is done on animals does not accurately guess results on how humans will

About 94% of drugs that have been tested on animals and passed testing, have failed to show any result in humans. Also 9/10 vaccines that have proven to work on animals fail to work on humans. For example Over 100 stroke drugs and 85 HIV vaccines failed to show any sign in humans, but when they were tested on animals they were effective,“ this means that they were effective to a non-human primates”(Aysha Akhtar). A study conducted in the USA, in 2013 by the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America found out that medication, which was used on animals and had a high success rate, did not translate to humans. About 150 patients that were critically ill, were given medication that had no effects on reducing their injections, they showed no sign of improvement. Despite that fact when the medication was given to animals they were successful on them and showed improvement. Vioxx, is a drug that is used to treat people with arthritis, it was deemed safe to take when it was tested in six animal species (including monkeys who we share about 99% of our DNA with). Even though it has proven to work after being tested on animals it is claimed that it has killed 140,000 people around the world and caused about 320,000 heart attacks and