Despite the success in medical development nowadays, there is a humongous cost paid off behind the progress of the scientific achievement --- Animal testing, which has always been a controversial issue over the past few decades. The term ‘Animal testing’ can be referred as the use of non-human animals in research and development projects, especially for purposes of determining the safety of substances such as foods or drugs. Personally speaking, I would definitely disagree to the prohibition of animal testing. This essay can be argued that animal testing should be maintained and continued. The reasons for this can be discovered in three aspects – scientific research, medical advances and benefits on more lives on earth.
Scientific research on medicine has always been successfully done through animal testing. However, there are still numerous incurable diseases which need to be figured the cures out. Thus, it is inevitable to undergo animal testing in order to tackle the problem since scientists and researchers will be able to find out ways to help saving lives of both animals and humans by testing lifesaving drugs and process. Besides, the experiments are basically making use of animals in experiments carried out for the betterment of human lives, and even the animals themselves.
Hence, according to the scientific research, medical advances have made a marvelous contribution to maintain the lives on earth. In fact, a few animals tend to react the same way like humans in response to certain diseases and allergies and this provides a clue for the scientists to track down the cures for certain diseases by studying animals. For example, open heart surgeries, coronary bypass surgery and heart transplantation are some of the procedures that came into existence by carrying out experimentation on dogs. Besides, contagious diseases like smallpox, measles, etc. were brought into control due to vaccines made experiments on animals.