Wednesday, March 15, 2017

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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1 comment:

  1. The first thing that I really enjoyed was the statistic you used about 25 million animals being tested every year! That is an incredible statistic and an extremely sad one. A question I would have is, what are the alternatives to animal testing? Also, what can we do to stop animal testing? I would say I agree with the overall idea of your blog except that I feel that there could be some alternatives to testing animals even if it is for medical reasons.

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