When Is Animal Testing Wrong

Scientists have been using animals to conduct experiments and tests since ancient times. Over the years, the practice of using animals has been under fire by animal protection and animal activist groups. Using animals for drug testing has become an important part of scientific experiments but it has also led to the deaths of millions of animals. When animal testing goes wrong, it can harm the users whom it is supposedly benefiting. The use of animal testing should be abandoned because it does not predict accurate results in human beings, it kills animals, and there are alternate testing methods that exist which do not involve the use of animals. The differences between humans and animals provide one important reason for using caution when
Many of the new alternatives methods can range from using 3-D models of the human body or even using real life human subjects which can be donated for the use of science. A skin equivalent can be comparable to the natural skin of humans and therefore it is an alternative method to animal testing (Mertsching, Weimer, Kersen, & Brunner, 1/4). The Authors indicate that the skin equivalent is generated out of human keratinocytes on a collagen substrate containing human dermal fibroblast (Mertching et al., 2/4). For the alternative method, it allows for applications of testing of an array of drugs and products used for daily life without using animals and produce accurate results because of how close the resemblance is and the biological structure to humans. Some of the test they can do on the skin can be used for testing the various parts of the body and different symptoms. With animal testing coming under fire and criticism scientists try to find ways to not use animals. A different approach of animal testing was taken by Unilever in collaboration with Entelos Inc. Which is a computer based-mathematical model (Vandebriel, & Loveren 397). The use of a computer based models will help obtain the understandings of the tests the scientists do without using any animals. With computers they can create a model of the human body and use the info they gathered to construct a model that will be accurate when testing. They can also get info about the knowledge gap also they will be able to integrate the different ways using the alternative testing data. With the data they can put together the info they gathered with the other testing methods to make a model on the computer that will be more