Animal Testing

By Stephanie Watson

          Animal testing takes place in three main areas biomedical research, product safety, and especially in the animal laboratories around the world. It has been happening in the past until now.

          This book is about scientists, researchers, students, medical students, and doctors.

          There are two both sides in regard to using animal testing. Firstly, the main argument for animal testing is that while research find that the animals can feel pain, many scientists use pain-relieving medicine during experiments so that the animals feel as little as possible. Secondly, responsible scientists care a great deal about the animals they test by using as few animals as possible and testing as humanely as possible. Another important is that scientists use animals to test medications and chemicals that are very important in medical a profession.

          On the other hand, the argument against animal testing is that many of drugs that were developed through animal testing should test without the use of animals. Moreover, animals have the same right as humans to live and not suffer. Thirdly, animals are not exactly the same as humans and may not respond in the same ways of treatments.

          Personally, I agree with both of sides, I think animals testing is necessary because it saves people’s lives. And also animals make good models for disease and treatments because they are the most similar to people when compare with other animals. However, I think that no matter how careful researchers are, animals can still feel pain and stress from being kept in cages and subjected to tests. In addition, scientists can use artificial human tissues and computer models instead of using animals.