In David Suzuki’s, “The Pain of Animals” (2002) he attempts to highlight how for many years, scientists have utilized animals to examine the effects of experimental diseases, drugs, and vaccines as a way to skirt around the ethical consequences of experimenting on humans. As a geneticist, environmentalist, and award-winning academic Suzuki’s attempt to increase public awareness for various issues is apparent within this article. Suzuki utilizes ethos, pathos, and logos throughout his article to express his discomfort on the subject of testing on these animals. Suzuki’s interest in this subject is unending, no matter how many illnesses are destroyed through extensive scientific testing and research. Furthermore, Suzuki effectively discusses the quality of life for the animals being tested, and the depressing and deprived realities that these helpless animals survive.
Animals have been used a lot over the last decade. Many successful medical cures for fatal diseases including with advances in understanding and treating serious flus have relied greatly on animals testing. However, many people throughout the world still do not accept animal testing due to its cruelness and inhumanness. Because development in medical treatments, cosmetics, and health care products is essential, I believe that the use of animals for research is necessary. It is true that now a days science and technology has developed and has gone a lot further that we could set up many substitutes for animal testing, but still it is not 100% replaceable with the actual animal.
Some companies have a strong belief that animal testing is essential in order to make sure that consumers are protected during the use of their products. For the fact that we allow this to happen in our world is pathetic, and it all comes down to pure selfishness’, an ugly trait in which human’s possess. How can it be rational to take the life out of something because it can’t show or tell someone if they’re in agony? Over the years there have been numerous amounts of companies that have stood strong on not participating in animal cruelty; realistically it should be the only way. Humans are at fault here; before it’s too late we must realize that each living creature has a choice and should never be taken away by pure
By considering both sides of the issue, the best solution is to use the results from previous animal experiments and the new technology in testing medicine and cosmetics; however, in other cases where animal testing cannot be replaced researchers could do so. There are several reasons proponents of animal testing declare to prove their arguments. For decades, animal experiments have provided solutions and have been one of the ways in which scientists found cures and treatments for many diseases. With this in mind, it is necessary to keep using animals in experiments to continue this success. According to Sun (2012), the Nobel Prize for medicine winner Dr. Joseph Murray said, ““None of this could have been done without animal experimentation”” (p. 83).
Individual have diverse feelings for animals. Sorrowfully animal lovers cannot fight for their side, yet they still combat to save animal lives. Animals used as their companions while others view that animals are for scientific survey course only. Several scientists only think how to making their test flourish without knowing that animal they use are being abused and maltreated. Not all tests are relevant to human health.
While driving along the highway I noticed a billboard protesting animals be used in experimentation. If medical and scientifical experimentation were to be done in only human trials the knowledge and understanding of how drugs and procedures can affect humans would be decades behind. That is why the use of animals in experimentation is a must in order to continue advancing medicine and science. Animals have a high reproductive rate and are easy to breed. Animals have the same organs and tissues as humans do making them very good analogues.
Dr. Richard Klausner, director of the US National Cancer Institute states: “We have cured mice of cancer for decades and it simply doesn’t work on humans.” Jim Mullen, chief executive of Biogen Idec states:” Boy, we can cure mice like nobody’s business, but when it comes to humans we have a harder time.” Radial Keratotomy, a surgery performed to enable better vision without glasses was perfected on rabbits but when tried on human patients, it failed-blinding them. Now I have a couple questions for you: What are we gaining from finding cures to human-like diseases in animals, if most fail when tried on humans? And why do keep doing it if doctors and other professionals keep saying its wrong? Being aware of what truly goes on in animal labs and acting against it will not only save and protect the lives of thousands of animals but it will also help advance the finding of cures for HUMAN diseases and the decrease of lost human lives. Animal experimentation goes back to writing of the Greeks in the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE.
Ethics is a major issue when discussing the use of animals in research. Animal suffering has been justified time and time again by research scientists as there have been huge benefits to humans. They claim there is not a single area of medical research that does not owe many of its important advances to animal experiments. On the other hand those who believe in animal rights strongly believe animal research is unnecessary and that the killing of all these animals each year is the equivalent of a “holocaust”. Most people however believe in a cost benefit analysis to determine whether or not the use of animals is acceptable.
While the arguments against animal testing are numerous, it still has a tremendous amount of benefit towards humans as a species. One cannot just look at the life expectancy as a measure of how well people live, but instead, we must also look at the quality of life. Should animal testing be eliminated, or, as the article suggests, put under the same ethical code towards the treatment of humans, we will experience a sharp decline in lifespan, and a decrease in the quality of life. The loss of animal testing would result in a sharp decline of lifespan in humans. The one thing most people understand about viruses and bacteria is that they evolve at an extremely rapid pace, leading to what can be called an evolutionary “arms race” between humanity and the diseases we contract.
constructive speech Animals can be used in lab experiment . First of all, Animal Experiment Provides a Platform for Medical Research: Now we manage to treat diseases like measles, smallpox, malaria today which are all horrible disease only because of animal experiment. The California Biomedical Research Association states that nearly every medical breakthrough in the last 100 years has resulted directly from research using animals. Without these experiment, we may even not have the chance standing here to make this debate! Secondly,Animals are appropriate research subjects because they are similar to human beings in many ways.