Using animals to test the safety of products and to carry out scientific research has long been a contentious issue for decades. According to Orlans, F. Barbara (1993), “sixty percent of all the experimental animals were used in biomedical research and product-safety testing” (p.62). People seem to have different feelings for animals; many of them likely look upon animals as their soul mate whereas others might view animals as the essential resources for advancing the scientific research. No matter
Animal testing refers to the procedures which takes place before human clinical trials and it involves the development and experimental projects to determine the dosing, toxicity, and efficiency of drugs. An animal testing exercise would be known as any research procedure executed on a living organism from the zoological category of the kingdom Animalia. Nevertheless, looking at past laws, the definition of animal testing is limited to vertebrate animals, which are made up of the majority of species
humans and the fate of animals have no advantage over the animals; for all is vanity. All go to one is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and human place; all are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.’ Animals share equal rights with human, living on the same planet and having the same destiny. Human who usually thought to be more privileged and supreme take controls over other living things and even violates living rights of animals. With the more advanced
Medical research using animals has prolonged the lives of millions of people. Animals such as dogs, primates, guinea pigs, and different strains of rats and mice are used as disease models in medical research to test treatments and surgical procedures. The disease animal models used in medical research have resulted in treatments to combat health disorders such cancer research and asthma. Without the use of animals in medical research, certain medications and treatments would be useless to humans
ANIMAL RIGHTS VERSUS MEDICAL RESEARCH Animal experimentation is the use of animals in scientific research and animal rights is the idea that some, or all, non-human animals are entitled to the possession of their own lives should be afforded the same consideration as similar interests of human beings. The 'modern' era of animal research started about 150 years ago with the rise of physiology as a science. Every year in the world, millions of animals are used in testing for medical research. Animal