For many years, the debate of whether animals have moral rights or not has been thrown around court rooms, social media, and protests. Arguments are made defending animals and suggesting that they should be protected and recognized in human society. Medical researchers are scrutinized and harassed by these supporters for their part in animal testing and medical investigation. Scientific breakthroughs have been made, which has transformed the development of modern medicine. Lifespans have elongated and lives are being saved in every corner of the world, yet somehow, this is still debated as if it is the wrong thing to do. Research animals are pertinent tools of the medical world and humans are entitled to use them as such. As human beings with…
New cancer drugs made the cancer survival rate go up about fifty percent. Due to animal testing, we now have a better molecular and genetic understanding of tumor biology. Because of this better understanding, it leads to treatments that set out to specifically kill cancer cells. Medicines to reduce heart disease and strokes that were tested on animals, save over one million American lives each year. Animal testing has made medical progress in Alzheimer's disease, anesthetics, antidepressants, asthma, autism, blindness, bone and joint disease, brain injury, breast cancer, cervical cancer, deafness, diabetes, Hepatitis B, ovarian cancer, prostate cancer, smallpox, and strokes. Although these advancements are good, animals had to die and suffer during these tests when there are alternate methods of testing medication. Over one hundred fifty million animals are killed for…
Animals on a daily basis all over the world are being mistreated and abused by many people that do not care for them. There are very few people attempting to protect these animals, whether they are domestic animals, farm animals, or wildlife animals. More attention should be drawn to the treatment of animals because even if we do have laws for animals and for their well being, many people still do not follow these laws. The laws already established for animals should be enforced, because I do agree that animals need protection, as in free from any harm done towards them purposely, but to have a Bill of Rights specifically made for animals seems extreme.…
George Orwell believes that “[Everyone] is equal but some [people] are more equal than others.” In Orwell’s famous book Animal Farm, all the animals are equal but somehow the pigs have more rights, this means the pigs can live a more comfortable life with more power while the rest of the animals don’t. In the book everyone starts equal but the pigs gain more power. Although all the animals have the same rights the pigs have more, for example everyone has the right to live but the pigs can change that like when they changed “No animal shall kill another animal” to “No animal shall kill another animal without cause”. Even though many are promised equality, some groups of people such as women, African-Americans, and Japanese-Americans have been…
Animal testing has contributed too many life-saving cures and treatments. “California Biomedical Research Association starts that nearly every medical breakthrough in the last 100 years has resulted directly from research using animals” (ProCon). Animal testing has helped save many lives today and come up with new cures for medical purposes. Because of animal testing we were able to find a new molecular and genetic understanding of tumor biology which led us to treatment that directly kills cancer cells. “This year, approximately 182,800 women in the United states will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer” (AMP). Alec Baldwin, who has broken with the PETA over the value of animal research in developing treatments for breast cancer told the USA that one cannot be ‘single issue’ when it comes to medical reassure. Animal testing was the reason for the development of Herceptin and tamoxifen. Which are two medicines that have saved many men and women’s lives today. It helps us prevent and give us hope to find a way to cure. Studies with animals determined with folic acid, a B vitamin, helps prevent serious birth defects of the spinal cord and the brain when taken before conception and early in pregnancy. Also, “research involving animal models continues to improve treatment’s for chronic complications including blindness, kidney disease,…
According to some national statistics, nearly two-thirds of all animal research has little or nothing to do with curing human diseases or advancing human medicine. Animals testing prolong the suffering of people waiting for effective cures by misleading experimenters in the wrong direction, and wasting resources that could have been spent on more relevant research. Humans and animals may have brains, hearts, lungs, arteries, kidneys, and so on; but animals bodies are made up differently. Dogs for example, they walk on all fours; humans do not use four legs to walk. So to do an experiment that deals with animals legs compared to human leg would be a wasteful matter, dogs legs are formatted different.…
How has animal testing helped with Medical progress. Modern surgical techniques including hip replacement surgery, kidney transplants, heart transplants and blood transfusion were all perfected in animals (understandinganimalresearch). This is important because it shows that animal testing has made many important surgical techniques possible. This is also important because it is giving people who need surgery a longer chance to be able to live. In Americans for Medical Progress it states animal testing has helped increase cancer survival by double in the last forty years. This shows that animal testing has be able to make cancer treatments that help stop cancer. This also shows that animal research is making such a dangerous disease treatable and letting people recover from it. These are…
for the use of animals in research. This has attempted to slow or halt the work…
“Animal research and testing has played a part in almost every medical breakthrough of the last century. It has saved hundreds of millions of lives worldwide.” Joan Ryan. When most people think of animal testing, they usually think about injured, blinded animals that they have seen in pictures online or on TV. After seeing just a few of those images, most people are quick to side with banning animal testing. However what most people do not realize is how much animal testing has helped advance medicine. Many people are alive today because of the medicine made with the information scientists have found through testing animals. The reasons for animal testing include things such as: animals and humans have similar…
“Frankie Trull, science advocate and President of the Foundation for Medical Research says, “An immediate end to animal research in the U.S. would be a death sentence for millions of people around the world,” (Ericson, 2014, b).” The reality is, many of today's advancements in research have come from animal testing. No matter how many trials they took, most advancements were at least started with animal testing and grew from there. All vaccines, chemotherapy, MRI’s, blood transfusions, dialysis, transplants, bypass surgery, joint replacements, and many other medical treatments were brought from research that started with animal testing (Ericson, 2014, a). This being said, as long as animal testing is accepted in laboratories, medical advancements can and will continue. If animal testing were to be abolished, research for many diseases would come to an alarming halt. Most scientists say that animal testing is a major key to research in genetic engineering and the study of neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's and an end to it would make research in these fields impossible (Ericson, 2014, a). It's argued that without animal testing, cures for these diseases would be impossible to find and research wouldn't be able to…
One of the biggest arguments animal rights activists have is that animals should not be used in medicine or experiments. The problem is animals are necessary to continue advancements in science. They are used in research such as medicine. In schools students are taught anatomy by dissecting animals. Even doctors and veterinarians use animals to train. (The Animal Rights Debate 1). Some ways that animals have helped with medicine are they have stopped and slowed down a variety of medical issues. This includes cancer, AIDS, and smallpox. Asthma inhalers were created due to animals and so were many types of vaccines. (Forty Reasons Why We Need 1). Animal testing isn’t even just for the benefit of humans. It has also created new medicines for animals.…
Animal tests play a huge role in advancing medical science. Physicians and researchers agree that animal systems provide priceless and irreplaceable insights into human systems. The essential need for animal research is recognized and supported by medical societies and health agencies around the world. Animal research has played a fundamental part in many of the major medical advances in human health in the last century, not to mention the medical treatments developed that help the animals themselves. "From antibiotics to blood transfusions, from dialysis to organ transplantation, from vaccinations to chemotherapy, bypass surgery and joint replacement, practically every present day protocol for the prevention, treatment, cure and control of disease, pain and suffering is based on knowledge attained through animal research" ("Proud Achievements" 2). Animals are the best models available right now because they are biologically similar to humans, they are susceptible to many of the same health problems, and they have short life-cycles so they can easily be studied throughout their entire life-span. Scientists can also easily control the environment around the animal (diet,…
The concept that we are all born with inherent rights, such as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, is fundamental to our society, particularly to the ideas expressed in the United States Constitution. However, humanity thoughtlessly demeans this principle by denying that animals share these rights. Animals are just as entitled to the rights of living, avoiding pain, and pursuing happiness as humans are. Yet still we exploit and abuse them mercilessly, most often without a second thought. Vivisection, or the use of animals in biomedical research, dissection, testing and education, deprives animals of their natural rights and is a great injustice. I believe that this is completely unacceptable, and we should find more humane as well…
Medical research involving the use of animals has significantly enhanced the well-being of mankind and animals. Without animal testing, the cure for many fatal diseases would not exist and many would suffer and die from their disease. Despite these benefits, many people and animal rights groups argue that the use of animals for research should be banned. The fact is experiments using animals have played a fundamental role in the development of modern medical treatments. The evolving research using animals will continue to be essential as researchers seek out treatment for existing illness, and react to the emergence of new diseases. It allows medical scientists to test and produce new drugs, and other products for humans and animals' safe use. The procedures learned through research have an invaluable role in educating students and professionals alike in aiding their training for treatment of humans and animals.…
“What is man without the beast? If the beast were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beast soon happens to man” (Chief Seattle). While much has been done to protect animals, it is nowhere near what needs to be done to secure their inhabitance on earth and give them their rights. Animals have nerves so they can feel pain and they do suffer so is it right to put them through that by experimenting on them? Additionally if more of the world’s animals are not protected a lot more will be extinct in the coming years. Finally hunting, in almost all areas, is no longer a way to gain food as it used to be, it is now just done for pure sport or “fun“. Should animals have to suffer just to benefit a single race of beings? And what does it feel like to be hunted down in terror and then torn apart while still alive?…