Debates On Animal Testing
Opponents of animal testing say that it is cruel and inhumane to experiment on animals that alternative methods available to researchers can replace animal testing and that animals are so different from human beings that research on animals often yields irrelevant results.
Debates on animal testing. Animal testing is so not good. As such animal testing is not merely subjugation of animal life to human life but a necessary step in preserving earth s biology writ large. Rounds 1 accepting and presenting our arguments to the case 2 rebuttal 3 rebuttal 4 rebuttal 5 concluding our arguments. In addition scientists are working on new technologies for medical research as an alternative to animal testing.
Animal testing or animal research is the use of non human animals in scientific experimentation. Use of animals in experiments about 31 1 of animals in science are used in basic research while 11 9 are used for translational and applied research which includes projects that test primary. Animals have feelings just like us. Arguments against 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. I am con for this debate because i am against animal testing and i believe it should be stopped. Animal experiments are cruel unreliable and even dangerous the harmful use of animals in experiments is not only cruel but also often ineffective. The diseased or healthy tissue can be used for testing.
However it is prudent and vital to consider the. Read more background pro con arguments. Cnn debate on animal research. 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.
Others endorse a view closer to the middle of the spectrum. The debate on animal experimentation. Lab animals lead fine lives. There are organ chips that already exist of the lung heart and kidneys.
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. Animals do not get many of the human diseases that people do such as major types of heart disease many types of cancer hiv parkinson s disease or schizophrenia. On closer scrutiny there exists a wide range of positions on the debate over the ethics of animal testing. The two views mentioned above represent two common positions at the opposing ends of the spectrum.
Those in opposition to animal testing primarily base their arguments on ethics morality and the unreliable nature of using animals as test subjects. It is estimated that 50 to 100 million vertebrate animals worldwide from zebrafish to non human primates are used annually.