Pros And Cons Of Animal Testing

Animal Testing: a Vital Necessity In order to save people’s lives animal testing is necessary. 43% of adults in the United States say they are against animal testing (Alas). Yet most the adults who say they are against animal testing take medicine and use products that all have been tested on animals. The advances made from animal testing have increased our biomedical technology significantly. Almost every breakthrough we have had has some part of animal testing. Without animal testing the alternate measures that would have to be taken would be unimaginable. Also the conditions of the animals are humane and commonly miss-represented. With all these benefits, I think it is very clear we need animal testing.
Numerous people believe that animal testing is un-necessary. Regardless, animal testing is key in life saving treatments where, “Animal studies allow us to test potential treatments without confounding factors, such as prior drug use and other experiences that complicate human studies” (Proquest Staff). You can tell your family or friend who has suffered from and received treatment for cancer, strokes, heart disease, diabetes, Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s ,which all have treatments that benefited from animal testing that a treatment, that possibly saved their life shouldn’t have been developed because they were tested on animals which
Most people who argue this have probably used a mouse trap and put them in more pain the scientists do. We keep cows, pigs, and many other creatures in cages their whole lives before we kill and eat them for nourishment. How is testing on them and most of the time not even harming them worse? Also the testing not only benefits humans but also the animals, “…research has contribute to improvements in the environments of captive animals… and the development if vaccines for dealt diseases such as rabies, Lyme disease, and feline Leukemia” (Baldwin