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English III
3 December 2014 Is using animals in medical research necessary? Some people would say yes, others would say no... but who's right? No matter what one thinks or believes this question still remains, yet to be answered. At first this question seems like its answer lies within one's opinion and only that, but if you look closer there is much more to it than opinion.
Scientists and medical researchers say that animal testing is the future to finding cures.
They also believe it is cruel to use animals to test our products on but, there are no other options.
Using animals for testing helps them figure out what will work and not work on humans. Using animals can help find cures faster and help prevent more human deaths.
Although some people believe that's true, Others have a different opinion. Scientists has discovered that using animal as testing subjects in the medical area hasn't has. Just because animals are living breathing creatures like humans, doesn't mean their body functions and systems are anything like ours. In fact, they're not anything like ours. There has been test after test performed on animals to help find cures and medicine that will work on human beings. After all that what do we have to show for it? A puzzle with missing pieces that is not going to be found ... not this way.
According to Humane Society International, animals that are used in experiments and tests are commonly subjected to force feeding, forced inhalation, food and water deprivation, prolonged periods of physical restraint, the infliction of burns and other wounds to study the healing process, the infliction of pain to study its effects and remedies, and "killing by carbon
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dioxide asphyxiation, neckbreaking, decapitation, or other means." The Draize eye test, used by cosmetics companies to evaluate irritation caused by shampoos and other products, involves rabbits being incapacitated in stocks with their eyelids held open by clips, sometimes for multiple days, so they cannot blink away the products being tested. The commonly used LD50
(lethal dose 50) test involves finding out which dose of a chemical will kill 50% of the animals being used in the experiment. The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported in 2010 that
97,123 animals suffered pain during experiments while being given no anesthesia for relief, including 1,395 primates, 5,996 rabbits, 33,652 guinea pigs, and 48,015 hamsters
During the late 1980s Dr Ray Greek and his wife a veterinarian discovered that many disease that would kill humans wouldn't have the same effect as it would on his wifes patients cats and dogs. The illnesses had very little effects on the animals.Dr Ray Greek, a board
certified doctor, explains why the use of animals and testing subjects actually slows down
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medical research. "The simplest explanation is that animal experiments provides little to no data shown. At best, they tell us a good deal about how animals experience disease, but rarely do they tell us something of value that can be applied to humans. Animal testing provides additional data, but not a higher level of accuracy." What good is it going to do is to use animals to test medicines on if it's not even helping?
Testing different drugs and illnesses on animals are very ineffective and inaccurate.
Many illnesses are undetectable in animals. For example, animals cannot explain that they’re feeling suicidal, suffering blurred vision, or aching joints. They may be incapable of developing the condition that a human suffers. Another example, a drug which damages the spleen of a human will never do the same to the rat, which has no spleen.It is hard for me to believe that after the horrible instances which have occurred, that they would continue to use this procedure.
It serves no purpose other than harming the animals
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