Debate About Animal Testing

It is estimated that 50 to 100 million vertebrate animals worldwide from zebrafish to non human primates are used annually.

Debate about animal testing. Search up animal testing picture and you will see the terrible things people are doing to animals the worst part is that a pew research poll that 43 adults surveyed opposed the use of animals in scientific research that less than half of people thinks animal testing should be banned. However the question here is whether it is humane to test on animals. Banning animal testing will in no way hurt any advancements in the future. On the one hand it is considered morally wrong to use animals in this way solely for human benefit.

Animal testing is a cruel way of trying to find results that aren t always trustworthy. Cnn debate on animal research. An estimated 26 million animals are used every year in the united states for scientific and commercial testing. Usually it is not.

I am con for this debate because i am against animal testing and i believe it should be stopped. Rounds 1 accepting and presenting our arguments to the case 2 rebuttal 3 rebuttal 4 rebuttal 5 concluding our arguments. It is true that animal testing is necessary to testing important drugs and has saved millions of lives. The opening footage for the cnn blogger bunch discussion is animal testing necessary on wednesday highlighted one of the reasons for a recent increase in public attention and media coverage of the role of animals in biomedical and behavioral research.

However it is prudent and vital to consider the. We now have alternatives such as bio engineering and computer modeling that can provide us better more accurate results than animal testing. Although much larger numbers of invertebrates are used and the use of flies and worms as model organisms is very important experiments on invertebrates are largely. Unreliable animal testing 90 of drugs fail in human trials despite promising results in animal tests whether on safety grounds or because they do not work cancer drugs have the lowest success rate only 5 are approved after entering clinical trials followed by psychiatry drugs 6 success rate heart drugs 7 success rate and.

Animal testing is a necessary evil. 9 out of 10 times the testing is found inaccurate in the end anyways. However we can find ways to make it better. Animal testing or animal research is the use of non human animals in scientific experimentation.

Animals are used to develop medical treatments determine the toxicity of medications check the safety of products destined for human use and other biomedical commercial and health care uses research on living animals has been practiced since at least 500 bc. The debate on animal experimentation august 10 2013 at first glance animal testing may seem cruel and unethical a clear injustice to a sentient being that has done no wrong and has no voice through which to stand up against such treatment. The use of animals in scientific research has long been the subject of heated debate.