Arguments Against Animal Testing

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Stop The Suffer: Find a Solution The estimated number of animals used in experiments worldwide in 2005 was 115.3 million, according to Cynthia Burnett (2009). Since that time and even before, animal testing became such a controversial issue. People continuously argue about important questions that concern its actual effectiveness, morality, and legality. Animal testing refers to the procedure of testing medicines and industry products on living animals to acquire knowledge with practical benefits for people and evaluate the products’ safety and usefulness. Some people support animal testing because it helped in finding life-saving cures for several diseases, animals themselves benefited from the results of these experiments, and the governments legalized it with laws and constraints that protect animals. On the other hand, those against animal testing state that it is an…show more content…
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). That implies that the medical progress mainly depends on animal testing and new drugs can be developed by this method. For instance,

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