Animal Experimentation Considered Ethical

To what extent is animal experimentation considered ethical?

Every year more than 25 million animals are used to develop new medicines and the majority of these animals are either euthanized or die from the experiments. This makes many people question our motives and moral principles. Should we continue to allow scientists to use animals for their research? Is research experiments really necessary? Is it alright for us to kill animals just so that we can benefit? The debate between supporting or opposing animal experimentation is difficult due to the success and failure we receive. But we can not deny the fact that animal experimentation is a very important factor that helps us advance in medical researches and technologies. They help us
They believe it is a crime to animals because they most often face severe symptoms. They also believe the results from animal experimentation is trivial compared to the agony animals are forced to witness. Antivivisectionists ( people who oppose experimentation that involves surgery) argue that issues like the one at St. Lawrence University, a rabbit was forced to go through vivisection (experiments tried on animals that involve surgery) without proper anesthesia. Which many people would consider unfair and inhumane. Vivisection is considered as animal abuse to many people due to the inhumane pain and cruelty they have to face. Opposers state that there are many alternative ways to test new researches. People believe that new alternatives are just as helpful to research projects as animals. Micro dosing for example can help scientists and animals by showing how small doses of new medicines that have not been fully tested and made sure it is safe, will move around the body. In vitro testing are considered as excellent replacements because they can produce different wounds and situations that are sometimes difficult to find through animals. It is also cheaper than animal experimentation because you do not have to feed, housed and cared for by veterinarians and other people. MRI scanning is an alternative that can
Scientists and others argue that the different alternatives available are unreliable because of the small range and minimum perspective it can be observed at. The alternatives can not be a better source than animals because animals are living organisms that have similar structure and organs as humans. But other different types of alternatives can not be much of use due to the different characteristics and anatomy that living organisms have obtained. Animal experimentation is also reliable due to the characteristics and motions that animals can deliver to us which will help us develop the medicines so that they are safe for humans. They are a much more sophisticated way to test new researches than other options that are pointless because they are only tested on isolated tissues and can not show how it affects the whole body. Although many disagree and state that computer modelling is a very effective way of testing new medical researches, computers can never replace the different characteristics and feelings a living organism witnesses. In addition humans are involuntary to most medical researches due to the chance of infection, disease, etc. and even if they do agree to help, they are expensive to use. The people supporting animal experimentation believe in a principle called the Three R’s called Reduction, Refinement and Replacement. Reduction is a concept that tries to help animals by making