For quite some time now, the debate of animal experimentation has been a major issue. There have been arguments about whether animals should be treated, recognized and protected by human society just as every human. Animal testing has provided human beings as a crucial safety check that can inform scientists what won't work, so unnecessary human experiments aren't conducted. Although an animal might result in chronic, fatal state, and even death, this will prevent the death of human lives in the future. Animal experiments have saved the lives of millions of people over the years by being able to provide tests and experiments to animals. Many diseases have been treated, been preventable and even remedied through science and breakthrough of animal experimentation. According to scientific research in 2015, research on animals has been indispensable in developing ways to treat human disease. Scientists in the U.K. announced a "dramatic" step forward in understanding and treating Alzheimer's. They discovered a drug compound that stopped "the disease in its tracks," restoring normal behaviors and preventing memory loss. If the knowledge gained by using mice can be applied to humans, it will "be judged in history as a turning point" in the fight against Alzheimer's (Smith, Wesley J.). Alzheimer's disease and memory loss are important topics and aren't meant to be taken lightly. Mice in fact don't deserve being infected with a chronic illness or disease. Although improvements have been made, it is in fact true that this takes time, effort, and trial and error. While a Pew Research poll found 43 percent of adults surveyed oppose the use of animals in scientific research, other surveys suggest that those who do accept animal experimentation do so only because they believe it to be necessary for medical progress(People for Ethical Treatment of Animals(PETA)). Discovering improvements and a cure are scientific breakthroughs whose main goals are to help the human life flourish and grow. In the future we can prevent humans from dying and even animals in the same way. Some people strongly oppose animal experimentation because they truly believe that animals are on the same spectrum as humans. The matter in question of animal rights revolves around the question of whether animals should have the same protection and rights as humans. Ingrid Newkirk, co-founder of the animal rights group People for Ethical Treatment of Animals(PETA), claims that animals are more like people than objects. In 1989 she declared, “There is no rational basis, separating out the human animal. A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy”(Newkirk, Ingrid). Humans and animal both live, breath, eat, and feel. Although this might be the case, we as humans slaughter a staggering amount more animals for consumption than we do in animal experimentation. Last year 500 million animals were slaughtered for human consumption but less than 3 million animals were used in medical research. That's roughly equivalent to
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Through tests and experiments with animals, we have achieved greater productivity by providing humans a means to find cures. In 2006, infant mortality in the USA measured as few as seven deaths per 1,000 live births compared to 47 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1940(Foundation for Biomedical Research).Progress in this area has come from one thing, and that is animal research. Diseases that used to kill millions of people each year are now either preventable, treatable or have been completely been eradicated . Without animal research, these vaccines would not exist and the survival rates for many major diseases are much greater because of the discovery of powerful new drugs, surgical procedures and the design of advanced medical …show more content…
Existing laws and policies require that lab animals be treated humanely, but there is no escaping the fact that many suffer unavoidable pain. Although animal experimentation has been, and still is, vital to many types of research, extremists in the Animal Rights Movement contend that animals are morally equal to people and that humanity benefits do not justify any use of them whatsoever(Greenhaven Press, 2015). If people stop experimenting on animal on this day, it is true that animals that were experimented on will live more abundantly and flourish, but we will ever know if there will be a scientific breakthrough in medicine and a cure for cancer
Through tests and experiments with animals, we have achieved greater productivity by providing humans a means to find cures. In 2006, infant mortality in the USA measured as few as seven deaths per 1,000 live births compared to 47 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1940(Foundation for Biomedical Research).Progress in this area has come from one thing, and that is animal research. Diseases that used to kill millions of people each year are now either preventable, treatable or have been completely been eradicated . Without animal research, these vaccines would not exist and the survival rates for many major diseases are much greater because of the discovery of powerful new drugs, surgical procedures and the design of advanced medical …show more content…
Existing laws and policies require that lab animals be treated humanely, but there is no escaping the fact that many suffer unavoidable pain. Although animal experimentation has been, and still is, vital to many types of research, extremists in the Animal Rights Movement contend that animals are morally equal to people and that humanity benefits do not justify any use of them whatsoever(Greenhaven Press, 2015). If people stop experimenting on animal on this day, it is true that animals that were experimented on will live more abundantly and flourish, but we will ever know if there will be a scientific breakthrough in medicine and a cure for cancer