Have you ever heard about Animal Testing?, it is a topic that brings up a lot of arguments, mainly due to its controversy. Did you know that vaccines for diseases such as smallpox and polio are found from the results of animal testing?, well this article is going to be about why animal testing shouldn't be banned.
Many people disagree with the idea of animal testing because to them it is unethical and there many other alternatives, but in reality, animal testing is a really effective method to test cures and vaccines before using them on humans, other alternatives, such as cell culture, does give more accurate results on what a certain medication does to the human cell, but that alone, is the problem made by the alternative, that alternative only studies on the cell, and that's just a certain cell, think about what the drug could have done to many other types of human cells, the only possible way to effectively test out a drug is to do it on a complete, living organism with interrelated systems working together, with just a cell, you cant possibly observe other effects such as behavior changes, psychological effects and etc.
Animal testing, on its own, is actually never a first choice for drug companies to do, mainly due to the fact that it is really expensive and time consuming, the main reason it is still used till today is that it gives the most reliable results, people also think that us humans only exploit and benefit animals for our own use, that is, in fact, false, due to the fact that animals also take benefit from animal testing, without animal testing, all animals that are used in lab experiments are all regulated under the Animal Welfare Act (AWA), the regulation covers things such as,minimum housing standards (enclosure size, access to clean water, enough ventilation, etc), and not only that, animal testing has contributed much to curing animal diseases, such as Feline leukemia and Rabies vaccines, which are found through animal testing
Without animal testing, we would still be in the "Dark Ages" of medical treatment, since it allows us to understand the effects of various drugs on organ systems easily and more precisely than any other known alternatives animal testing also has contributed to human medical history, for example: During the world war I, wound infections are so deadly, since there was no cure back then, until Alexander Fleming discovered the substance Penicillin, that could destroy disease causing bacteria, this is however, not applied to medical use or made useful before it was tested on animals, since Alexander's test tube experiments did not gave him the antibiotical effects he expected, until a Chemist named Ernest Chain injected four mice among eight infected by a deadly dose of 110 million dangerous bacteria, the treated mice survived and remained healthy while the untreated ones survived, this was the start of Penicillin being medically used (1940) almost ten years after the substance was even found.
So my conclusion is, that animal testing should not be banned because it has a lot of advantages and helped humans found new medicinal treatments throughout history, and also help study about how our complex body works by studying organisms with similar traits, without animal testing, we would still be suffering from smallpox and be medically set back, so I hereby conclude that banning animal testing would slow us down in terms of research an increase the dangers of medicinal side effects and most likely human casualties.
Thank you for reading.
Many people disagree with the idea of animal testing because to them it is unethical and there many other alternatives, but in reality, animal testing is a really effective method to test cures and vaccines before using them on humans, other alternatives, such as cell culture, does give more accurate results on what a certain medication does to the human cell, but that alone, is the problem made by the alternative, that alternative only studies on the cell, and that's just a certain cell, think about what the drug could have done to many other types of human cells, the only possible way to effectively test out a drug is to do it on a complete, living organism with interrelated systems working together, with just a cell, you cant possibly observe other effects such as behavior changes, psychological effects and etc.
Animal testing, on its own, is actually never a first choice for drug companies to do, mainly due to the fact that it is really expensive and time consuming, the main reason it is still used till today is that it gives the most reliable results, people also think that us humans only exploit and benefit animals for our own use, that is, in fact, false, due to the fact that animals also take benefit from animal testing, without animal testing, all animals that are used in lab experiments are all regulated under the Animal Welfare Act (AWA), the regulation covers things such as,minimum housing standards (enclosure size, access to clean water, enough ventilation, etc), and not only that, animal testing has contributed much to curing animal diseases, such as Feline leukemia and Rabies vaccines, which are found through animal testing
Without animal testing, we would still be in the "Dark Ages" of medical treatment, since it allows us to understand the effects of various drugs on organ systems easily and more precisely than any other known alternatives animal testing also has contributed to human medical history, for example: During the world war I, wound infections are so deadly, since there was no cure back then, until Alexander Fleming discovered the substance Penicillin, that could destroy disease causing bacteria, this is however, not applied to medical use or made useful before it was tested on animals, since Alexander's test tube experiments did not gave him the antibiotical effects he expected, until a Chemist named Ernest Chain injected four mice among eight infected by a deadly dose of 110 million dangerous bacteria, the treated mice survived and remained healthy while the untreated ones survived, this was the start of Penicillin being medically used (1940) almost ten years after the substance was even found.
So my conclusion is, that animal testing should not be banned because it has a lot of advantages and helped humans found new medicinal treatments throughout history, and also help study about how our complex body works by studying organisms with similar traits, without animal testing, we would still be suffering from smallpox and be medically set back, so I hereby conclude that banning animal testing would slow us down in terms of research an increase the dangers of medicinal side effects and most likely human casualties.
Thank you for reading.
