Animals or Tools?
...“unethical to allow a sick human to die or suffer when biomedical research using animals may ease that suffering. (http://www.navs.org) Many of the products we use daily in our lives are tested on animals. These animals go through a variety of experiments before they are either euthenized or die because they can no longer endure the experiment. A few of these tests include the following: acute toxicity test, chronic toxicity test, skin irritation test, acute inhalation toxicity test, psychology research, and weapons research. During the skin irritation test, (which is used to test the products we use daily) chemicals are applied to an animal’s raw skin and covered with adhesive plaster. The animals are immobilized in restraining devices to prevent them from escaping the chemicals, which burn them painfully. (http://www.sumeria.net) Therefore, the tests performed on animals in laboratories causes them extreme pain and suffering. Next, the differences between humans and animals cause flaws in experiment results. Dogs, cats, monkeys, mice, rats and rabbits are just a few of the species of animals used in experiments. Although animals do have feelings like humans, their anatomies are very different. Humans and mammals do have lungs, hearts, and immune systems in common. However, only humans suffer from things like AIDS and artery disease. Discoveries in molecular biology show many differences between humans and animals on the cellular level. These discoveries show why humans react to medications and suffer from diseases differently than animals. Therefore, the differences between humans and animals can be dangerous and even deadly when the results of animal testing is applied to human medical treatment. Finally, the use of animals in laboratories is not valid. Animal experimentation is flawed and misleading. The molecular differences between humans and animals cause a difference in the way we react to medicines and how our diseased need to be treated. A wrong dosage of medication on a human, that worked on an animal, could be lethal. In vitro research, epidemiology, autopsies, and many other human or technology based research allows us to discover things that animal models do not. N...