The Pros And Cons Of Animal Experimentation

Animal Testing Have you ever wondered how people figured out if medicine works? Animal testing, or animal experimentation, has been going on for a long time. It is the process of using animals with similar DNA, such as chimpanzees, to test new cosmetic and medical products to try and figure out how they will work on humans. It is a very controversial subject . Some people argue animal testing provides valuable information for people and new products; Animal testing needs to be stopped because it is torture to animals and the information gathered is not always accurate. Animal testing can cause PTSD and other lasting problems. Animals used in animal testing are given chemicals that are foreign to their bodies and can cause adverse side effects. They're also often kept in sterile cells isolated from any
This can have a very negative effect. For example a series of case studies of chimpanzees who had been retired from research, published in the Journal of Trauma and Dissociation in 2008, found that diagnosis of complex post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the animals was “consistent with descriptions of trauma-induced symptoms described by the DSM-IV [a publication of the American Psychiatric Association that provides standard criteria for the classification of mental disorders in humans] and human trauma research,”(Animal Experimentation). Some researchers give animals diseases in order to develop new treatments and cures. Most of the time the animals are not given painkillers and are forced to suffer. The only U.S. law that governs the use of animals in laboratories—the Animal Welfare Act—allows animals to be