The use of animals in medical research has many pratical benefits. Animal research has enabled researchers to develop treatments for many disease, such as heart disease and depression. It would not have been possible to developed vaccines for disease like smallpox and polio, without animal research. Any drug you take today was tried first on animal.
Future medical research is dependent on the use of animals. Which is more important, the life of rat or that of a three year old child ?
Medical research is also an excellent way of using unwanted animals. Last year over twelve millions animals had to be killed in anomals shelters because nobody wanted them as pets.
The Case Against Using Animals In Research
The fact that humans benefit cannot be used to justify using animals in research anymore than it can be used to justify experimenting on other humans. Animals suffer a lo of during these experiment. They are forced to live in small cages, and they may be unable to move.
Much of the research that is carried out is unnecessary anyway. Animals have the same rights as humans do to be able to move freely and not to have pain or fear forced upon them. Researchers must find other ways of doing their research, using cell culture and computer modeling. There should be no animals in research laboratories at all.
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