How does animal testing benefit humans?

Looking more into the two new research topics I have chosen talks about the harm and suffering of some of the animals from animal testing and in the other article it talks about all the medical benefits that animals have helped with solving.

            Reading the article about Animals in Science/Research, we can all look at how animal testing is bad for the animals. In this article, they talked about how testing on animals is one of the worst forms of animal abuse, and it is a legal to do. They talked about how many animals are being used and how awful it can be. The Neavs foundation said “Every year in the U.S. over 25 million animals are used in biomedical experimentation, product and cosmetic testing, and science education. This includes-dogs, cats, ferrets, rabbits, pigs, sheep, monkeys, chimpanzees, and more.” So, as you see animals are being abused daily and it is being allowed. They also discussed about how they have to take painful protocols to some of the animals they do not need anymore such as not giving them any type of pain medication or even having to kill the animal, and if they survive the tests they are doing on them they keep them for even more painful testing. But having some animals tested on can help save the lives of many humans out there.

            In the article, Medical Benefits, they discuss about all the great things animals have done for humans to this day. Animals have helped figure how much penicillin it takes to help humans and even animals and it has saved millions of lives. Having animals helped figure out how to do blood transfusion and without out they said open heart surgery would be impossible without it. Animals helped with the use of asthma medical problems and said how humans have much more active lives because of it. Transplants today would not have been made possible without the help and use of animal testing, so as your reading this you can see how many lives animals have saved and even saved themselves.

            I have learned a lot about the research I have done for this blog assignment. It really helped get a lot of new ideas and helped which side I was going to take for this project. I have a lot of answers to the questions I have asked about, as well as more questions I will be looking more into. I will be considering a question about how the animals will benefit in animal testing and how humans benefit. The one problem I will be wondering about is if at any time will people stop testing on animals or slow down with testing on so many of them.  Something I might argue about with the issue from learning about all the research I have done is that animal testing should not be done on animals if it concerns any type of cosmetic. 

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Looking more into the two research topics I have chosen to discuss about was one being if testing on animals was beneficial to humans. Reading the article about the Benefits of Animal Research, I can see that testing on animals is good for people. In the article, the AALAS Foundation talked about many medical problems being solved because they had animals to test on. Adolescents today are protected from typhus, diphtheria, whooping cough, smallpox, and tetanus all because researchers could practice on animals and help come up with vaccines and medicines to solve the issues. One animal that really helped in a serious situation was a dog, it helped come up with insulin. Which is what was extremely helpful for diabetics. Dogs were also helpful to people with serious heart disease, because researchers advanced their techniques with open-heart surgery, pacemakers, and heart transplants. As we can see having animal testing can be beneficial in more ways than one.

            In the article, they talked a lot about how much of an impact animals have on animal testing and it shows how they have helped save a lot of lives. Reading the article, I could see that animal testing is crucial to humans and it has really helped in serious situations. When they discussed how testing on dogs was helpful, because they helped come up with insulin was very interesting and it shows how animal testing is a huge deal. Having the technique doctors have today is all thanks to the animals who helped them become so good at what they do for other people. 

             Animals can be effected in many ways when being tested on. Peta has an article about the Cruelty to Animals in Laboratories, and it talks about how animals get mistreated and tortured. They talked about how they are always locked up and being controlled and have no life inside the place there being held in. They said they could be burned, shocked, poisoned, isolated, starved, drowned, addicted to drugs, and brain-damaged because U.S. laws are allowing it. While being treated in those horrific ways they also are not being allowed a way to numb the pain or have any pain killers to help ease the problems. Most animals being used in laboratories have been infected with more diseases than what they get when they are out on their own. They say no animals are protected from these conditions.

Going over the article Cruelty to Animals in Laboratories shows and tells me how painful it is for animals to be tested on. No animal should be harmed in that way and no animal should ever be abused in the ways they said they are. Reading that article tells me how much pain and suffering these animals are going through and nothing should be put in those awful situations. Even if animals are helping humans in some ways they should never be treated that way. So maybe we should have animal testing stopped are making sure all the animals are not being treated in such horrible ways.

            

http://www.peta.org/blog/proof-positive-winning-against-experiments-animals/

How does animal testing benefit people? Does it affect the animals in a bad way? Should we stop testing on animals completely? Should we only test on animals if it is going to help cure a disease or any medical help? Animal testing can be very cruel and effect animals in more ways than one. When testing on animals, should we only test on them if it will help solve a medical problem for humans? If people are testing makeup on animals just to see if it Is compatible, then should we rethink all of animal testing? I have seen many cruel images of animals being used for makeup and antibiotic testing and it does show how bad the test affects them. What if some medicines affect animals but not people? Or just any testing is completely different when we use it on animals instead of humans, should we leave the animals alone or keep testing on them? I believe we should only test on animals for medical reasons and to help find cures not just to enhance our beauty. If people are testing animals to help them see if their makeup products are good, then I could understand why we should not test on animals. Having tests that are not necessarily needed in the world then I believe we should end animal testing. Many animals get sick, injured, or even die by just being tested on with cosmetic products. They suffer when any testing is being used on them. So, should they even be tested on even if it does help in the medical field? If thousands and millions of animals are dying should all of animal testing be finished with? Or should we only test on animals that do not benefit with the earth or on animals that will no longer be extinct and never run out, like rats for example. Rats are one of the main animals that are being tested on. Should we continue to breed animals for testing just like rabbits? Should we only test on rats knowing they have such a huge population? Or do we continue to do research on monkeys since they are more like human beings? The question one needs to ask one’s self is what really are the benefits to animal testing? And can we continue to do the testing’s if no actual harm comes to the animal?

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The image that I have shown is a rabbit that was being tested on with cosmetics and it shows how the skin got irritated and what can happen if the product does not work for them. So, does animal testing really need to happen or is there a way we can make animal testing nonexistent?