The Pros And Cons Of Animal Testing

Introduction to Animal Testing
In the realm of science, testing and experimentation is the foundation on which scientific knowledge stands upon. In highly prioritized sciences such as Biological, Medical, pharmaceutical sciences, Animal testing stands at its core. In such sciences, as mentioned before, have a major focus on the human consumer. Animal testing qualifies as using model organisms, which are scientifically and governmentally approved organisms, allowed to be tested on in human-driven experimentation and research. The reason that these organisms are approved in experimental testing is because these models replicate a living system that can represent other living systems. Along with being cheap to invest in with shorter life spans to boot. According to the research of Cattaneo et al (2015), in the context of disease research most model are used because they accomplish three things: face validity, predict validity, and construct validity. If they reach these criteria then they are good
Recently, animal testing has become a very controversial practice that challenges scientific morals and ethics. Before the establishment of scientific ethics in common scientific practices, experimentation and testing were left to looser parameters than faced with today. In some scientific practices, animal testing is the guideway to the validity of results. Ethical practices, in all general science practices, is the exercise of validity and integrity in scientific findings based on research in optimal conditions. According to Russel (2012), ethical practice pertaining to animals is providing valid scientific research using animal models in good psychological, physical, and environmental conditions. It is argued that animal testing is the basis of many scientific studies and experiments, but that it has now basically gone too mainstream without regards to the organisms’