Animal Experimentation: Necessity or Immorality?
New drugs are devised to cure humans disease everyday. However, the medical development has also brought about negative impact inevitably. Before coming into use , the new drugs have to be tested if there is side effect or not. And at the time the appearance of “savior” such as rabbits and white mice are forced to sacrifice themselves to prevent people from dying. Animals are used to create for medical or scientific products only for humans benefit. But the problem is : is it morally accepted? Even to this day, the debate about whether animal experimentation should be banned has been a highly controversial topic in the scope of science, politics and social opinion. Viewpoints differ as some think it necessary for human while some humanists show concern about its cruelty of animal testing will do a great harm to animals. As I as I am concerned, I support the latter opinion that animal testing should be ceased .
To start with, animal experimentation should be banned because human and animals have the same right to live. Depriving the animals life to prolong humans life unethically and cruelly is not supposed to be the original purpose of scientific research. Furthermore, animals suffer from great pain during the test. Human neglect that those animal being tested would experience the same agony as human beings, it is not fair to disregard their helplessness. What is more, animals are treated with inaccurate ways with the drug abuse. More specifically, the immune system of animals are partially different from those of human. For human, aspirin is ordinary to treat fever and allergy, but for mice it proves to be toxin. If tested with aspirin, mice could die immediately and in this way the outcome of the research will not reflect the pesticide effect properly.
Moreover, animal experimentation should not be continued due to it is possible to find other alternative to test humans tissue instead of animals.