Animal Experimenting
Should animal testing be banned?
Definition
- "The use of non-human animals in experiments that seek to control the variables that affect the behavior or biological system under study."
Backound Information
- Using animals for medical research is a complex scientific and moral issue
- Most religions urge kindness towards animals
- Animals are being tested on instead of on humans
- Religions think that human lives are more important than animal's lives
- "Animal research has been used as an alternative method to replace the study of humans."
Dangers
- The animals may be subjected to painful procedures or toxic exposures
- Animals used in experimenting have emotional stress, physical pain, and suffering
- Animal experimenting is very expensive
More Dangers
- In 1908, scientists took a part of a spine from a boy who died of polio and ground it up and they injected it into 2 monkeys and they both died
- Scientist Margarete Tigges is sewing monkey infant's eyes closed to see how they communicate
- " David G. Amaral is using chemical means to permanently disconnect the amygdalas from the rest of the brain in male monkeys."
Benefits
- It does provide important benefits that are not easily replaced or not easy to be done without animals
- Animal experimenting has helped in the development of medicine
- Open-heart surgery technique was developed in dogs
- The technique of kidney transplant was also developed in dogs
- "From sheep came control of anthrax, and from cows the eradication of smallpox."
Should animal testing be banned?
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