Mrs. Schmiel
Period 3
30 October 2015 Animal rights
The concept that all of us are born with inherited rights, which is life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, is the core part to our society, these ideas are in our Constitution. However, humanity lowers this principle by denying that all animals share these rights. Animals are also entitled to the rights of avoiding pain, living and pursuing the happiness that us humans have. Yet we are abusing them constantly, most often without having second thought on what we are about to do. Vivisection; which is defined as the use of animals in biomedical research, dissection, testing these deprive animals in …show more content…
The wide variety of chemicals and other types of medicine scientist test on animals reacts differently with every type of species there has to offer. The Director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis Collins, recognized that “the use of animal models for therapeutic development and target validation is time consuming, costly, and may not accurately predict efficacy in humans.”(NAVS) The fact, that it has been proven that there is no two species that even the metabolize any given drug the same way. Then the results gained from animal testing can be not only incorrect, but misleading. Not only are the results wrong, but the opposite effects could be true for humans; a drug may cure a disease for lab animals, but it could have an opposite effect when used for treating people for the same drug. This research is not only considered irrelevant when it's applied to humans health, but it could also be very dangerous by giving false advertisement to the consumer. Only with the study with real human patients will lead to the right …show more content…
But the animals do. If vaccines weren’t tested on animals, scientists couldn’t find the cures for rabies, feline leukemia, canine parvovirus, and there's many more. All of these infectious diseases were cured from animal testing which saved millions of animals from across the world. With finding this out, animals should be experimented on for animal diseases so scientists can find the cure. The role of animal experiments is explained in “The Animal Research War”, by Michael Conn and James Parker: “Some animals are good human-like models for one thing and some for another; some have a cardiovascular system that is similar to humans while others have similar skin.” We are very similar to animals but not every animal is the same to us. Scientists are finding out that we share 98 percent of our dna with chimpanzees, which is the closest living species to humans. We also share 92 percent of our dna with mice, and 26 percent with yeast they have genes that are similar in humans, such as those that enable energy from the breakdown of sugars (facts from: “putting dna to work”). So why are we treating animals so