Testing new drugs, vaccines and surgical techniques on live animals is never justified.
Is it really necessary to test on animals? This is the question I want to discuss; therefore I first want to distinguish two types of animal testing. There are tests for the cosmetic industry, which is not justifiable. Why should animals suffer just for our beauty? On the other hand, there are animal tests made for an improvement in science, biology and medicine. These types of animal testing are those I want to discuss.
The main argument for these tests is that without them we wouldn’t be able to survive so many diseases, especially with all the current viruses and infections. It would be just unethical to test on human beings but tests have to be done.
Nevertheless not all tests always have results. It is necessary to experiment several months sometimes even years till they could be applied on humans. It is also known that there have been several examples of substances causing death or injury to human beings because of inadequate animal testing.
A further argument against animal testing is that not all test results could be use for human beings, there is always a risk above all considering that some results are depending on the conditions in which the tests are made, because of the stress caused to the animal. Exactly to impede those kinds of mistakes it is important to keep testing and improve our science and medicine.
As a result of investigation we can state that our science has advanced in the last century. Progress can only be make by doing experiences, investigations, tests and by examine our environment and that includes also the animals. Human testing is also being
practice but it is just irresponsible to do it, when it becomes dangerous for their lives. In addition to this we can also state that our science is already at a point where they have developed animal tests without pain.
All things considered it is important to highlight again, that we need those tests to survive the consequences of our lifestyle, which often cause diseases. But if these tests could be done without pain, hurt or kill animals it is even better. At the moment there are some new techniques on the market like testing on cells, tissues or ´in vitro`, which give us hope to prevent animal torture in future.
Is it really necessary to test on animals? This is the question I want to discuss; therefore I first want to distinguish two types of animal testing. There are tests for the cosmetic industry, which is not justifiable. Why should animals suffer just for our beauty? On the other hand, there are animal tests made for an improvement in science, biology and medicine. These types of animal testing are those I want to discuss.
The main argument for these tests is that without them we wouldn’t be able to survive so many diseases, especially with all the current viruses and infections. It would be just unethical to test on human beings but tests have to be done.
Nevertheless not all tests always have results. It is necessary to experiment several months sometimes even years till they could be applied on humans. It is also known that there have been several examples of substances causing death or injury to human beings because of inadequate animal testing.
A further argument against animal testing is that not all test results could be use for human beings, there is always a risk above all considering that some results are depending on the conditions in which the tests are made, because of the stress caused to the animal. Exactly to impede those kinds of mistakes it is important to keep testing and improve our science and medicine.
As a result of investigation we can state that our science has advanced in the last century. Progress can only be make by doing experiences, investigations, tests and by examine our environment and that includes also the animals. Human testing is also being
practice but it is just irresponsible to do it, when it becomes dangerous for their lives. In addition to this we can also state that our science is already at a point where they have developed animal tests without pain.All things considered it is important to highlight again, that we need those tests to survive the consequences of our lifestyle, which often cause diseases. But if these tests could be done without pain, hurt or kill animals it is even better. At the moment there are some new techniques on the market like testing on cells, tissues or ´in vitro`, which give us hope to prevent animal torture in future.
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