Should animals be used to test drugs

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Introduction I’m going to be investigating how animal are tested on to test new drugs before they are tested on humans. These new drugs will help benefit people with diseases that haven’t got a cure yet, hopefully some of these new drugs will be the cure. These drugs in the future maybe the cure for cancer, HIV, AIDS and other deadly diseases, that kills thousands of people everyday. Animal testing will help find out, if there are any side effects and what they are, what the dosage of the drugs should be, and helps find out if the drug actually works. These are the sorts of animals that get tested on, ranging from smaller to bigger animals. When testing new drugs there are 3 stages, first human cells get tested on which wont harm anyone at all, then the second step is to test on animals and this of course will hurt, injure and probably kill the animals. New drugs don’t always have the desired effect and can cause serious harm so animals are tested on before humans. The animals can die of the drugs side effects or the dosage used to test the drug, these results would be recorded and considered in the scientists next experiment. My Argument To Support Animal Testing All over the world people have different views on animal testing, these following reasons are why animal testing should be allowed. First why should humans suffer before animals? Although some people think every living thing is equal most people think humans are thought to come before animals, and why should humans suffer testing that possibly wont work before animals? The reasons for these thoughts are basically behind knowledge and humans are one of the many living organisms on earth with large brains. “Humans must always come before animals” This quote is from http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/253842/humans_versus_animals.html Drugs need to be fully tested
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