Using animals for medical research

By: Brianna Culver

Did you know that 2,854,944 animals are used for animal testing in the U.S? An issue that is highly debated is animal testing.  People should ban using animals for medical research here are my reasons to explain why.

My first reason is animal testing hurts and even kills poor animals. Cats, monkeys, rabbits, and dogs are forced to suffering laboratory cages and undergo painful experiments. Think about being locked up in a cage dying because you were injected with medicine that you either couldn't have or it didn't work and you were dying alone with no food and no water.  That wouldn’t be fun would it? So how do you think the animals should have to do it? More than 100 million animals are killed each year including mice, rats, frogs, dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs, fish, and birds that’s a lot of animals and there are many more than that. According to www.peta.org it states, “Before their deaths, some are forced to inhale toxic fumes, others are immobilized in restraint devices for hours, some have holes drilled into their skulls, and others have their skin burned off or their spinal cords crushed” (2015). This tells us how bad people try to “use” animals for cosmetics and medicine. This kind of treatment of animals isn’t worth testing that they do.

If we can slow down the process of using the number of animals being used for medical research or even no longer using them would be even better for me and the animal society. According to www.Aboutanimaltesting.co.uk it explains that researchers use techniques that allow them to obtain a level of information that is sufficient but requires fewer animals. Which is good because less animals are being used but kind of bad because ANIMALS ARE STILL BEING USED. Replacing animals with things closer to humans will definitely reduce the number of animal testing. Or using different “materials” in the food and other household items would be better. This evidence shows that the more we slow it down it just might stop for good.  They also say that it has rescued many human lives but it probably killed many animal lives.

Finally, humans and animals are totally different and have very few things in common. According to www.care2.com the way our genes and animal genes function critically different. Like 9 out of 10 drugs that appear promising in animal studies go on to fail in human clinical trials like the people get sick and it makes there condition worse or it gets them sick. “Relying on animal experimentation in some cases impedes and delays discovery of drugs and procedures that may be beneficial to humans will more and likely fail in animals killing them.” Also our brain structure …our cortex is different in size and density from all other animals www.hrsbstaff.ednett.com. So this means that animals and humans are not at all the same and that most of the tests fail in human research studies.

So those are my reasons that we should not use animals for testing medicine or chemicals or any other thing that can kills poor animal’s well thanks for reading my essay I hope you learned something from this and I hope you will do the right thing.