According to the UK Home Office Minister Joan Ryan "animal research has played a part in almost every medical breakthrough of the last century. It has saved hundreds of millions of lives worldwide...". Research on living animals has been practiced since at least 500 BC. Though should animals still be used for medical testing? Many people say that animals should be used for medical testing because they are easily replaced. Which is mean to say. They say the animals also suffer through similar diseases as humans, like cancer. So it's better to test with them to get better results. Many people say that some diseases and medical conditions have been completely wiped out because of advances developed from testing on animals. And most importantly they say that if animals hadn't been tested then there would be 35% less humans in this world, because they would die of diseases, or their sickness. But according to the Food And Drug Administration "92 out of the 100 drug tested on animals that have also passed, have failed on humans."
On the other hand people think completely the opposite. They say why hurt animals? When people say that animals are being used to get medication for the humans' sicknesses, some people say "people don't know that they are sick until the doctor tells them. So then how is it the animals fault. Why blame them? Why use them for testing?"
Many people start giving the following reasons:
- They didn't do anything to you.
- Humans can find more things to test on!
- they have nothing in common with us.
- Why put them in pain, if they didn't put us in pain. It's our fault that we get sick.
- They don't hurt us when they are sick.
- They die because of these tests.
So should animals be used for medical testing ? Please share your opinions down below.
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