The Pros And Cons Of Animal Research

Animal research has been in use for a long time as part of experiments conducted to assure the safe use of medicine, food, cosmetics, and among other products. Animals have repeatedly been used through the history of biomedical research. It is considered that Aristotle and Erasistratus were among the first scholars to perform experiments on living animals. As the experimentation on animals increased, so did criticism and controversy. It has been an important issue for many years because it concerns millions of animal lives that are constantly in danger for unethical practices.
Scientists have regularly alleged that the statistics of animals used in testing rooms has significantly increased. According to the Humane Society International, an organization in charge of animal rights, animals that are exploited in experiments are put in inhumane circumstances. They stay for prolonged periods of physical restraint; they are forced to eat, and they are also victims of the infliction of pain to study the effectiveness of medicines and commercial products. Also, several pieces of research have …show more content…
Social support in pro of animal experiments has been in descent since the 1950s, dropping from over 90 percent in 1949 to only 57 percent in 2013 (Ericson, 2014). Even though adverse reactions to drugs are declared safe by animal tests, thousands of animals die each year from these reactions. Also, drug reactions are a leading cause of death among societies’ population, affecting 197,000 people every year in the European Union and ascending of 100,000 in the U.S (Archibald, 2012). Therefore, It is absurd that, with advances in technology for medical objectives, the laboratories continue to experiment on animals; and it is also difficult to comprehend the reasons governments protect a system with such a bad record, or why they do not put more effort to the use of new