Animal testing is a common methodology among scientists to verify their hypotheses before introducing them to the public. Nevertheless, the practice has been condemned as inhumane and extra due to its torture and pain inflicted on animals. Others claim that experiments on live creatures are crucial and inevitable to the welfare of humankind. This passage will discuss both views and depict the author’s opinion.
On one hand, rights activists oppose research performed on live animals as it contradicts their belief in animal rights. To proponents, animals possess certain dignity and inalienable rights including their right to refuse maltreatment. By allowing humans to conduct trials on living animals against their will and regarding them as inferior creatures, animal testing is delivering a dehumanizing message that anyone can take advantage of animals without considering their emotions and interests. Secondly, it is scientifically proven that results obtained from animal testing have little application to real-life situations. As animals’ biological process is distinct from humans’, a drug that functions well on animals may be counterproductive for humans. According to the Singaporean Ministry of Health, only 3% of treatments successfully applicable to rats can cure illnesses in patients.
On the other hand, many opine that animal testing is an unavoidable stage prior to market introduction. Before officially producing vaccines or medicines, inventors have to confirm the effective and harmless usage on living bodies, which is only acquired by testing on animals. Additionally, there are species such as chimpanzee that shares 97% of genes with human bodies that may help adapt drugs experimented on them to each person. The next benefit is that animal subjects are more easily handled under controlled conditions than human ones, which facilitates medical breakthroughs. Animals are justified to have short-lived cycles and significantly fewer social networks, all of which subjects them to risky and unstable tests that may break grounds in medical fields.
In summary, I believe that animal testing is vital for the welfare of both humans and animals themselves, but research should be conducted with minimal suffering and maximum concern with creatures’ interests. As experiments on live animals are associated with negative and positive features, it is ideal to impose restrictions such as limiting the use of animals to well-founded theories only.
Animal
testing
is a common methodology among scientists to verify their hypotheses
before
introducing them to the public.
Nevertheless
, the practice has
been condemned
as inhumane and extra due to its torture and pain inflicted on
animals
. Others claim that experiments on
live
creatures are crucial and inevitable to the welfare of humankind. This passage will discuss both views and depict the author’s opinion.
On one hand,
rights
activists oppose research performed on
live
animals
as it contradicts their belief in
animal
rights
. To proponents,
animals
possess certain dignity and inalienable
rights
including their
right
to refuse maltreatment. By allowing
humans
to conduct trials on living
animals
against their will and regarding them as inferior creatures,
animal
testing
is delivering a dehumanizing message that anyone can take advantage of
animals
without considering their emotions and interests.
Secondly
, it is
scientifically
proven that results obtained from
animal
testing
have
little
application to real-life situations. As
animals’
biological process is distinct from
humans’
, a drug that functions well on
animals
may be counterproductive for
humans
. According to the Singaporean Ministry of Health,
only
3% of treatments
successfully
applicable to rats can cure illnesses in patients.
On the other hand
,
many
opine that
animal
testing
is an unavoidable stage prior to market introduction.
Before
officially
producing vaccines or medicines, inventors
have to
confirm the effective and harmless usage on living bodies, which is
only
acquired by
testing
on
animals
.
Additionally
, there are species such as chimpanzee that shares 97% of genes with
human
bodies that may
help
adapt drugs experimented on them to each person. The
next
benefit is that
animal
subjects are more
easily
handled under controlled conditions than
human
ones, which facilitates medical breakthroughs.
Animals
are justified
to have short-
lived
cycles and
significantly
fewer social networks, all of which subjects them to risky and unstable
tests
that may break grounds in medical fields.
In summary, I believe that
animal
testing
is vital for the welfare of both
humans
and
animals
themselves,
but
research should
be conducted
with minimal suffering and maximum concern with creatures’ interests. As experiments on
live
animals
are associated
with
negative
and
positive
features, it is ideal to impose restrictions such as limiting the
use
of
animals
to well-founded theories
only
.