Should animals be used for medical testing? Yes!
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Medical science has come a long way. All the progress we see in this field in the form of better drugs and surgeries is the result of perpetual research and hard-work. In order to test certain drugs, they needed living things. The living thing that was found pretty close to human beings was Guinea pig, although many other animals are also used.
Tests are carried out on animals. Many a times it happens that these animals are made to suffer very painful disease. The harmful viruses are inserted into their bodies and then drugs are used on them to check out whether certain drugs would work or not. The drugs' effect on human beings is predicted by experimenting on these animals.
The main question is whether animals should be used in medical testing or not?
Here's the answer:
Medical testing
Would you support medical testing of animals if it is done to discover cures for human beings?
See results without votingHuman beings are more important than animals.
Human life is much much more precious than that of animals. If we want to let medical science flourish we should use animals for testing. They are our best bet. We can't do anything without them. Apart from the fatal testing there are certain tests that are not really harmful. As a matter of fact we are killing hundreds of thousands of harmful germs that enter our bodies day in day out. Our immune system has been designed in such a way that it counters every threat. Fundamentally germs like any other "vivid" animals are also living beings. If we can kill so many of them in a single day than we shouldn't mind letting Guinea pigs or more livelier animals to die in the testing process.
Moreover testing is not hurting or disturbing the ecosystem of the world in anyway. Its obvious that these animals are not released in the wild to infect any other animals. They are kept in labs and used.
Animals also feel pain
The problem with this testing is that animals also feel pain. Animals have senses. They can feel pain. And on top of that they cannot do anything to save themselves from pain. Its really distressing that animals are inflicted pain and suffering in such a brutal way. But its better to use them instead of human beings.
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i totally disagre with the testing on animals. i am a doctor and scientist myself and i totally but disagree that animals are born to be isolatedfrom their partner and fellow crearues remaim imprisoned undergo loneliness stay single disallowed mating and then die withour propogating their own species. this i fel i cruel and e do not have a right to do this. if we justify this then we should justify the act of terrorism. inspite of testing drug trials on animals they may nt be fit for human use. because they are not humans. thats the brutal truth. just to get a fda approval the testing goes on. experimental las may not be totally banned but atleast we can limit it to a few unfortunate animals can you sacrifice a few humans because thre are too many. so when essential we can resort to animal experiments and drug trials bt replicate or propogate or justify the act. it is like a life sentence pathetic but inevitable in select circustances
The idea of sacrificing humans- just for testing - is ridiculous. Why don't you people come forward and present yourself for testing. Fair enough?
You can be sure that if/when ever I´ll become ill I will forward for testing myself!
And you!? I bet you rather wait until they sacrifice some innocent creatures before they test it on you! It´s ridiculous to believe that´s reasonable!
Yes, i know what your going to say, but put yourself as a guinea pig its'
like a giant spear and then "BAM" this huge spear is in me and now this liquid. Many say "No, they don't feel the pain."Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â "Really?" please, . . . how come when children get shots some will cry or scream? so a shot can hurt a kid but not a guinea pig. I just wish there was something that could take place of the guinea pig. Any volunteers??? how about you greathub~!!!!!!
 Testing on humans will never work because there will be people like YOU! Like some asian countries, eat dogs,cats. . . I know we eat animals but lets all go veg. ugh, sorry but I'm out of here.
I coudn't agree with the comments here more. We should only test medicines and cosmetics on ourselves. We are not more important than animals, we just have more POWER. And if you extend that argument much further, well, you can draw some pretty nasty conclusions.
One day, in the future people will look back on what we are doing and call us barbaric.
every1 is allowed 2 av their own opinion that is obvious well my opinion is that animal testing isn't right !!! many many ppl av said that don't be so stupid we need animals would u like it if they tested on ur mum or family ! and i am really getting annoyed with ppl saying that ... if u stop and think for a minute we can speak 2 ppl in other countries we can view each other on the web we av even WALKED on the MOON and that was years ago but we cant grasp the fact we can use actual human body cells which amazingly more like us since they are part of us than a animal where the only thing the same 2 them than us is we breath !!!! the body cells will react the same as wot we wood and i no the cells wont b able to tell us that they are in pain but never can an animal when it is having bleach or something lyk dat put in it eyes !! our country is fucked up we let ppl out of prison early on GOOD behaviour after they av murdered our own flesh and blood but we cant stop these poor helpless animals from human torture i cant believe that our own kind wood b so sick to do that soo next tym u c a animal or when ur dog or pet comes up to u with them big sweet eyes and gives u a massive kiss just think some where some animal just lyk dat is aving its hair pulled out, eyes squirted with some chemical injected with god nos what and yet they all sleep soundly in their beds them sick human kind !!!!! i may b only 14 YEARS old but i know what i believe !!!!!!!!!!!
ii agree and and humans are NOT more important than animals, animals are always treated like shitt! its us humans who are treating them like that! just for our safety we killing those poor creatures,who have lives,feelings and senses and i think it is very WRONG to test medicines on animals. if medicines need to be tested they should be tested on humans,anyway these medicines are being used by humans,so why should these poor animals take the pain when humans themselves are going to use the medicines? anyway animals are being killed for many other purposes like for their skin,fur,flesh etc. so why should they be used for testing and that also when humans are the ones who are going to the medicines!
of cours humans are more important! just because animals have big goo-goo eyes doesn't mean that we should sacrifice ourselves! if your wife, child' husband, mom, dad, brother, sister, ect. was diying, would you want some scientist wipping out a needlel and saying " i'm going to see if this injection helps at all, i really don't know what it will do though." without animals so many lives would be lost. its nessicery to use them. im not happy with the thought of and animal being hurt but unlike some people im more disturbed with the thought of a person being hurt. if an animal dies, it doesn't have priciouse memories, it doesn't love!(when i say that i mean it doesn't love like humans do, like you would love your grandpa and feel horrible if he died, they don't feel that)i am very disapointed in todays generation. ive talked to people who have seen both a comercial for dieing animals and dyying people and they say that they cryed for the animals but not the people!!! to me thats appauling! when my dog died i was constantly being comforted for at least two weeks. i have a friend who's grandmother passed, and after the first two days nobody even remembered! im against animal crulty, but i feel testing is 100% necessicery.
@ the only one with @ least half a brain here
I agree with you 100%.
Money spent on animal testing should be used to heal sick humans not torture healthy animals. How can you justify spending billions and billions on the off chance you might find a cure for something when there are so many people waiting for the most basic cheap medicine that is already proven to work? From a humanist perspective animal testing is wrong because it takes vast resources out of basic healthcare.
@ Andrew Hawkley
Had it not been for those dollars spent in research we would be yearning for the cure of even those medicine for 'simple' disease.
And there are so many deadly diseases e.g. Cancer, AIDS which are still incurable. In order to find their cure money has to be spent.
It has been three decades since AIDS made its first appearance. Where is the cure? I want my money back.
I personally think it is very wrong to do animal testing and I also think that most of the so-called search for cures are a con to make a lot of money for drug companies and research scientists! There are cures for all the diseases said to be incurable! I look after my own health and have done for years and do not use medical drugs.
If you want a remedy for HIV/AIDs check out Sutherlandia frutescens
animal testing isnt rite we shold use the alternatives they have in the world instead and humans arent more important than animals soon the animals will be extinct and all u care bout is our lifes without animals there will be no one to play with other than humans and sometimes ppl get sick of humans and then one day we will have the supporters of animal testing to thank
with lonely lifes it wont be so wonderful will it
I AGREE WITH ALL OF YOU PPL ITS WRONG TO USE THEM ON ANIMALS IF WE CAN USE THEM ON ANIMALS WHY NOT US THEN... AND I'M DEBATING ON THIS TOMORROW MORNING WITH MY CLASS AND PLUS I'M IN GRADE 7 THIS IS SO GREAT THAT I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO THINKS ITS WRONG,AND SOON THEY WILL BE EXCINCT IF WE KEEP THIS UP THEY SAY THEY HAVE A CURE BUT I STILL HAVN'T SEEN IT BY THE TIME THEY FIND 1 WILL PROBLEY ALL DEAD BY THEN....
I think that docters SHOULD NOT use use animals for testing, that is just CREULTY. lets pretend animals were people and, people were animals, what if people had to put us (animals) down just to test something out. JUST LISTEN TO YOURSELF YOU ARE KILLING CUTE LOVEABLE ANIMALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My opinion on killing animals is right and wrong. The problem is that if to kill a dog to save another is NOT RIGHT. that is MESSED UP. But on the other hand it is right to save someone, but to take another life for another is messed up. and how can you kill those poor loveable animals that is just medded up. well you keep thinking what you want, i think IT IS RIGHT AND WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT IS JUST PLAIN CREULTY.!!!
you guys are sick im gonna start a riot on your company and beat you up so watch your back
I agree with greathub. Yes animals do feel pain........ but I'd rather let an animal feel the pain rather then someone of my own family or even myself.
Its difficult choice. I bet all these people commenting about being against animal testing wont let any testing on them if they knew they could die.
How come you can eat animals after killing them intentionally but be against animal testing which could potentially save millions of lives.
ALL U 72 PPL THAT SAID YES U SUCK!!!!!!!!! YA I WENT THEIR!!!!!!!!!!!!! SUCKERS!!!!!!!!!!!!
every one who likes hurting animals are gross
JERKS if u like ppl testing on animals U SUCK AND U ARE A JERK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@ ALYSSA: Do you know that when you breathe, you kill thousands - possibly millions- of germs?
the importance of a germ??? how fast to germs reproduce??? yea thats what i thought. if there is away to avoid killing germs please tell me. y do u think our world is being bestroyed because of us greedy humans not the animals they were fine before us. we think we are the most important thing on this planet but hate to break it to u we are not, if us humans all die the earth would be throwing a parade. n dont give me teh bullshit of ppl having families and bla bla lets see if u get locked up by force and get tested on, get ur leg broken then improperly fixed by studenst n a prof that does not car, cut ur stomach up n then the next day seeing your guts because it was improperly fixed lets see what u will say. as well GREATHUB humans are not exactly the same as any other mamal. the DNA structure may be the same but the regulatory genes, wihch are the ones that turn on and off the structural genes are very much differnt n that is why only a few cures have been optained from thousands of research animals and thousands of cures have not been found for that same resean n that is why products that are bing used on human have not been able to cure animals. why dont we do human testing for discovering cures for animals. dont even answere that. n second of all if humans were being used they would not be forced we all kno that but animals dont have the option. F * * K YOU to those that agree on animals testing
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I agree 100% with greathub! Let me see you sacrifice yourself to help find a cure for humans. Id rather have an animal be tested on rather then myself or any body i know.
I also agree with the only one with @ half a brain.
animal testing is so not right animals are just as alive as we are and have just as much right to live as we do. I love animals and the though of any being used for testing makes me sick, and the though that any one would agree with animal testing is even more wrong
you guys this isnt a joke animals are living things would you like to get your eyes burnt out because the animals want a new eye liner?
I think animals should be used because without us we wouldn´t have any civilization. But I think that animals shouldn´t suffer for us. It sounds tu cruel and evil !!! But who knows what is best ???
Haha... to think that people would actually think of trading their lives for that of animals is hilarious! Yall should also give yourselves in so we can eat yall as chickens, cows, and goats...Everyone is preaching "don't hurt the animals," yet everyone is buying chicken, meat, cheese, milk,or jackets, hats, gloves, watches, belts, and the millions of products made from animals... yall should trade yourselves in so that we can skin you guys and use yall for clothing as well...or better still, don't wear or eat anything made from animals... SERIOUSLY? If we don't use animals for testing, who will we use? you? For funride: u said when you get sick, you will turn yourself in for testing. Well, guess what? Scientist cannot wait for you to get sick... Millions of people are dying, so until you get sick, deal with it! Besides, how many medications can be tested on you alone or the handful of people who CLAIM that they will be willing to turn themselves in?????????
Haha... to think that people would actually think of trading their lives for that of animals is hilarious! Yall should also give yourselves in so we can eat yall as chickens, cows, and goats...Everyone is preaching "don't hurt the animals," yet everyone is buying chicken, meat, cheese, milk,or jackets, hats, gloves, watches, belts, and the millions of products made from animals... yall should trade yourselves in so that we can skin you guys and use yall for clothing as well...or better still, don't wear or eat anything made from animals... SERIOUSLY? If we don't use animals for testing, who will we use? you? For funride: u said when you get sick, you will turn yourself in for testing. Well, guess what? Scientist cannot wait for you to get sick... Millions of people are dying, so until you get sick, deal with it! Besides, how many medications can be tested on you alone or the handful of people who CLAIM that they will be willing to turn themselves in?????????
I think you have got this all wrong, animal testing doesn't help people.
"I´m sorry to say but I can not agree with you on this. Why do you believe "Human beings are more important than animals"!? First of all we are also animals! And more important, if we need to test medicaments then lets do it on our selfs. We are too many anyway.
I know that many of you will call my stupid but I´m sick of all this Human egotism!!!"
Humans aren't animals. We have evolved above and beyond them, and have managed to survive much more successfully than them. Look at all the cities, roads, cars, houses and buildings we have created around the world! Do you think animals could have done this?No, it is the work of humans.
I agree that we should test animals, but not if it involves extreme pain or suffering. Fortunately, most of the time it doesn't. I;m doing a debate on this so thanks a lot!
Of course the thought of animals suffering is cruel, but we need to consider our options here:
1) We are not testing for "eyeliner", but medical purposes. This is serious, we are testing on animals to save the lives of others.
2)Animals breed and reproduce quicker, so it would take far less time to see results than in humans
3) I'm from Australia, and 2% of the Australian population are vegetarians. If you do not support animal testing but eat meat every day, you are a big hypocrite. More animals die every day to feed us than from animal testing.
4)The alternative is too costly. Either we test on humans, which would mean having to pay them and build new labs, or on cells, in which you can not see a whole-body reaction and therefore get an acurate result. Either was the alternatives are more costly.
5)We are testing on non-endangered species, and under lab conditions. The animals we test on will never become extinct. It's not like we are plucking orangatangs from the rainforests of Borneo; the animals are especially bred.
6)The animals will not know their family like us humans do. If a human was to die not only the person would be affected but its family. This is not the case with animals.
7)Humans aren't the only things that have diseases. What about all the animal diseases out there? The humans aren't the only beings benifitting from this.
Summing up, I am in year 8 and I have to say that I am quite dissapointed in alot of the comments. The: "How can u kill animals they're soooo cute, u r so cruel!" ones are the most pathetic, don't say anything if it's not intelligent; you make yourself look dumb.
Opinions are fine but stupidity pisses me off.
i agree with funride. We humans shouldn't be too up ourselves
Thank you "you lot haven't done your research",
You have simply taken the words from my mouth.
I believe animal testing is cruel but fundamental.
"You can be sure that if/when ever I´ll become ill I will forward for testing myself!
And you!? I bet you rather wait until they sacrifice some innocent creatures before they test it on you! It´s ridiculous to believe that´s reasonable!"
I hate to be 'egotistic' but this is the way our world is. We have ALWAYS been above animals that we test on (eg. rats, monkeys, guinea pigs). God himself, declared that humans ruled over other animals.
"just for our safety we killing those poor creatures,who have lives,feelings and senses and i think it is very WRONG to test medicines on animals. if medicines need to be tested they should be tested on humans,anyway these medicines are being used by humans,so why should these poor animals take the pain when humans themselves are going to use the medicines?"
Yes, they have feelings but science has proved that other animals do not have the capacity for emotion as humans do.
HUMAN TESTING ALREADY EXISTS!
"you guys this isnt a joke animals are living things would you like to get your eyes burnt out because the animals want a new eye liner?"
Read the title. It clearly states 'Should animals be used for MEDICAL TESTING? Yes!'
You are referring to cosmetics which is NOT medical testing.
"i totally disagre with the testing on animals. i am a doctor and scientist myself and i totally but disagree that animals are born to be isolatedfrom their partner and fellow crearues remaim imprisoned undergo loneliness stay single disallowed mating and then die withour propogating their own species. this i fel i cruel and e do not have a right to do this. if we justify this then we should justify the act of terrorism. inspite of testing drug trials on animals they may nt be fit for human use. because they are not humans. thats the brutal truth. just to get a fda approval the testing goes on. experimental las may not be totally banned but atleast we can limit it to a few unfortunate animals can you sacrifice a few humans because thre are too many. so when essential we can resort to animal experiments and drug trials bt replicate or propogate or justify the act. it is like a life sentence pathetic but inevitable in select circustances "
First of all, I'm astounded that you'd say this when you have had experience in the medical field.
For each testing period, scientist may use even up to tens of thousands of animals. You're suggesting that we should find thousands of human volunteers?
The animals that we test on breed a lot faster than humans. Just one of the troubles with testing on humans is that the experiment takes longer to complete since our life spans are longer.
So lets imagine that we DO find tens of thousands of volunteers and we find a cure. Great! But every time a new disease forms, we'll be killing thousands and thousands more. Think of all those deaths, all the grief for family and friends. Once again, animals simply do not have the capacity for emotion and relationships as we humans do.
Eventually after all these tests, there won't be many volunteers left.
And if a new disease were to form and you couldn't test on any animal or any human,
What do you suggest we do then?
IMPORTANT:
ANIMALS GET SICK TOO.
Many, many animals die of diseases.
The testing is not just for the benefit of humans.
If you suggest that we test the animal disease on a human, it's very unlikely.
Firstly, for the experiment to take place. The volunteer must HAVE the disease so that we can attempt to treat it. There is only an extremely small percentage (something like 1 in a billion) that the human will actually obtain the disease and if they did, think about the consequences.
It is quite likely that the disease would be contagious. I am sure all of you can remember the swine flu, bird flu and other worldwide epidemics. Imagine the death toll for EVERY animal disease that we tested for.
Having an opinion is absolutely fine but if you are suggesting we change our medical testing system you must think ahead! Think of the problems it will cause in the future for mankind AND for animals.
Oh, and another thing,
There are strict rules and regulations to animal testing.
The animals are to be tested and killed with the least pain and suffering as possible.
There are rules to how they are fed, treated and tested on.
Other than the law, it is also scientifically beneficial.
Scientists don't want to test on stressed out, upset creatures. They need healthy animals for accurate results.
im a year 7 girl and im doing debating if we should ban medical testing on animals. i love animals to bits but really u guys have got problems the ones who say "aww but there soo cute." im totaly with 'you lot haven't done your research.' whats the point in doing tests on humans if were going to die and the test is to help us live? ur so stupid nd i think that you should seriouly think about it. nd as if you would say 'here take my 4 yo brother hes as cute as a animal wouldnt make a diff' UR MORE STUPID
oh nd i forgot to say that there spcially bred anywayss so yeah. its not as if there gonna steal it from ur house or anything :( :)
i dont know why people dont use their brain very well..if they objected the scientist to use animals as their experimental purposes..i think they also need to stop using medication and whatsoever contribution from the lab test using their so called innocent animals..im not telling that the animals arent innocent but we couldnt afford to lose our people..that people mybe our fmily, close friends..and you may say this it's the same with animals..but do u really think that they recognize their fmily members? they brother? sister? great grandfather..? it can be breed in a relatively short time..it can reproduce to few generations in a short time..and it may interbreed each other..imagine the father of a guinea pig mating with his grandchildren or whatever it is..it development is more rapid compared to us..it can have more than 5 offsprings once it delivered birth..and the purpose why the scientist need to do vivsection or use a living animals because they need to mimick the physiology condition in a human body..this is the best that we can obtain..i do believe that dead carcasses or dead bodies doesnt need medication rite..? bcoz all the cell and organs are already shutdown..so using animal is the best way..to gain something we need to sacrifice..we do feel sorry for them but we dont have any relevant choices..and one think that being brought by greathub..he siad that when we breath we kill millions of germs..? if the germs have the right so we cant kill HIV virus or AIDS.cant u see?
oh and for anon..u said tat one day we'll meet our death..but do you wish to meet them earlier..? think of it.do you wish to be infected by swine flu..? no. do you want the cure for that disease? yes.how? by experementing the drugs.to whom..? you?
ok number 1 God put animals on this earth for humans. call me what you will but I would much rather an animal be tested and die than you or me. I can guarantee you that if you were put in a situation where someone said hey try this new medication we are not sure how severe the side effects are and you could very possibly die, that you would sacrifice and animal. Yes I do agree that some testing on animals could be cut back, but for the most part yes a human life is more important than an animal life and animal testing is crucial if we want to find cures.
BTW, for all of u! Thank you very much for ur opinions, you helped me/ some ppl for their skool home work! =]
and im neither against or for this topic
Ok, i have read ay of these comments and Greathub, you really piss me off!
Ok I have read a lot of these comments and opinions and Greathub you really piss me off. At least all the other people here that are for animal testing said that they feel some what bad for the animals, but you, your just an a$$ whole! I am 15 and am doing a reasearch paper on animal abuse. I am including animal abuse at home, in slaughter houses, and in testing. I am personally totaly against animal abuse in every way. I never actually knew how serious it was until i looked up information on this topic. I've seen videos of animals in testing and in slaughter houses and i couldn't even watch the entire thing; I started to cry. I understand how some people believe that humans are more important than animals but I don't agree. It is obvious that we are more capable and have a lot more power than animals do but who says we have the right to destroy their future? For those of you who believe that animals dont feel or care, think again. Go up to your dog and pet him or scratch his belly. The dog will soon kick his leg or lick you beacause of how good it feels. Now, if you smack your dog or hurt him, he will screech or cry out, yelp, run away, lower it's head, tuck in it's tail, or hide. To me those are all signs of feelings. They yelp because of the pain they feel, just like we cry or screem because of the pain we feel. To those of you who believe that animals shall no longer have the right to go on mating with multiple partners, just know that not all animals are like that. there are those animals that pick one mate for a life time. For that mate they fight, hunt food for, and take their turn caring for their child. Sounds just like us doesn't it? For those of you who are for animal testing, have you even seen the pictures or videos of what those innocent animals go through? My mom once asked me, "If i had cancer and the only way to cure me was to take 10 of your most favorite animals and have them put into testing so they may find a cure for me, and i only had 6 months to live, would you put those animals through that to save me?"
Now, she is also aginst animal abuse but she asked that so i ay see the viewpoints of others. All I could say to that was, "I don't know." It is very hard to think about and still i don't even know. In conclusion, animal testing or animal abuse is wrong in my opinion and there are definitly other ways to go about finding cures for diseases out there.
funride says:
2 years ago
I´m sorry to say but I can not agree with you on this. Why do you believe "Human beings are more important than animals"!? First of all we are also animals! And more important, if we need to test medicaments then lets do it on our selfs. We are too many anyway.
I know that many of you will call my stupid but I´m sick of all this Human egotism!!!