Inaccurate Animal Testing

Animal experimentation
Countless monkeys, dogs, rats and other animals are burned, blinded, cut open, poisoned, starved and drugged behind closed laboratory doors every year for convenience and economic reasons and because of old habits. Not only are animal tests extremely cruel, they are also completely inaccurate because of the vast physiological variations between species.
Throughout the years of medical research, scientists have immorally exploited animals in the sense that they cannot decide for themselves. They have continually tested animals without the remorse of an animal having a life but only thinking of them as a prized possession; a toy easily thrown away. The truth about animal experimentation is that the world does not need
to test animals to help find cures although we owe animal a great debt to some lab animals for the development of polio vaccines and heart valves. Animal experimentation is without a doubt one of the most life threatening way to help cure illnesses in the human body. As discovered by many doctors most medications that had been proven to be safe for animals have estimates of over 2.2 million people hospitalized and 106,000 deaths recorded annually because of drug reactions from humans. Although in the past animal experimentation has helped the advancement of medical research through the accidental mistakes brought upon by scientist studying animals and giving them medications for one thing but have found the result of something else making it to be only an accidentally breakthrough. Animal testing is a process in which scientist conduct an experiment on animals, testing their reaction to toxins and chemicals to make it safe for humans.
Animal testing is time consuming and not always accurate. Over all the years of testing animals and the proof that chemical substances made for humans as drugs were safe about 50% of the Food and Drug Administration otherwise known as FDA approved drugs have been removed because of side effects to humans. In the 1950’s, researchers tired to find a drug to help prevent pregnant women from nausea, morning sickness; later within the year they had found a drug. The drug approved was called Teratogen which as a side effect to humans caused 10,000 birth defects . Animals do not naturally suffer from Alzheimer and Parkinson disease. Yet researchers expect an animal to react as a human would when they are artificially induced. Over 100 clinical trials have failed due to the fact that they haven’t taken the time to overlook the facts and reality of the situation. Even then some people state the fact that just because twins can resemble the same feature and may even seem the same in body structure; that they are exactly alike. The reality is there not the same at all. They can’t respond the same to the same drug if given. Despite all of their failed trials in animal testing, researcher still try to find answers. The only real answer to help prevent animal testing is through alternative
experimentations.
Scientists and governments state that animal test should only be performed as necessary.
The “three Rs” are guided principles for the use of animal in research: Replacement, reduction, and refinement. “Alternative to animal tests includes synthetic skin substitutes and computer stimulations, but in vitro products shows the most promise because they are efficient, fast and easy to manipulate," said Dr. Alan Goldberg. Synthetic skin substitutes also known as vitro research and human cultures is human skin grown in test tubes made to help test the reaction of skin cells to human skin. “The National Disease Research Interchange provides more than 130 kinds of human tissue for scientist to investigate more than 50 diseases, including cancer, diabetes and glaucoma”. Vitro testing is best used to help find how people will react to household chemicals as well as cosmetics. Silico also known as computer technologies have the advancement of predicting toxins in chemicals when given to humans. Computer technologies help college students and doctors to studies the effects of certain chemicals without harming humans or
animals.
“It’s still surprises people to learn that non-animal testing methods are not only more ethical, they are also more applicable to human health” In many situations alternatives have been proven to work most efficient. In 1997 a drug was approved called Baycol which was known to treat abnormal cholesterol levels; later withdrawn because it caused muscle wasting in several patients but not found in rats and mice. In vitro testing a scientist used human and rat muscle cells which showed 200 times more resistant to the drug effect of muscle wasting then humans.
In the end, there is actually very little benefit humans have got from animal testing but a ridiculous amount of human harm has be found. Out of all the negative results that have been given from animals, researchers need to stop trying to find something that isn’t in animals and focus on alternatives like vitro research which in the end has been proven to be the best resolution for future purposes. Animal experimentation is above all unessential to the expansion of medical research despite the fact that they have built the foundation for medication. Animals need to be seen as a pet not an experiment.