Animal Testing History

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Healthcare Industry has over the years continued to come up with new and improved medical innovations. Animal research, in particular, has played a key role in many medical advances in the recent past and continues to assist in the understanding of various illnesses. Organizations that support the use of animals in the field of medicine, such as the British Royal Society. It argues that almost every medical achievement made in the 20th century was due to the use of animals in one way or another. The Institute for Laboratory Animal Research of the United States also shows that animal testing is necessary for some areas because not even the most developed computers can model interactions between cells, molecules, organisms and the environment.…show more content…
This waste comes from the processes involved in animal research such as use and discarding of food materials, chemicals, excrement, needles and other supplies and equipment on a regular basis. The various types of chemicals of unknown danger are used for sterilization, disinfection, anesthesia and other testing procedures. During discarding of animal carcasses and other related wastes, the most common method used especially in the USA is incineration. Air pollution occurs due to the high emission of harmful gases during incineration that has been proven to be hazardous to human health. Animal testing also poses a threat to biodiversity. In the recent years, many monkeys have been captured from the wild for use in medical research. The total loss of species is highly estimated to be 50 to 500 times higher than the background rates found in the fossil record, and this has caused severe population and biodiversity concerns. (Groff,…show more content…
It generates a high amount of dangerous quantities of chemical and biological wastes. The effect it has son human health, the lives of animals lost, money spent that could be directed to better projects gives enough reason this method should be buried. Medical researchers have looked for substitutes for animal testing. For instance, a scientist at the Harvard Medical School has developed a non-animal lung tissue alternative. The model mimics the human heart that allows for observation of the essential functions of the heart and the effects that harmful toxins can have on a living lung tissue. This alternative works at eliminating the restraining beagles in forced inhalation experiments done on
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