Ramzi Halwani
Dania Adra
English 203
The Fight Against Animal Testing
Hyperlink: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/professor-elizabeth-fisher/why-we-should-accept-anim_b_3608923.html
Animal experimenters want us to believe that if they gave up their immoral habit, sick children and other disease and accident victims would drop dead. But the most significant trend in modern research in recent years has been the recognition that animals rarely serve as good models for the human body. In addition, fortunately, a wealth of cutting-edge, non-animal research methodologies promises a brighter future for both animal and human health. The fact is that experimenters already do test new drugs on people. No matter how many animal tests are undertaken, someone will always be the first human to be tested on. Because animal tests are so unreliable, they make those human trials all the more risky. Also, animals feel pain and fear just as we do, and their overwhelming natural inclinations, like ours, are to be free and to protect their own lives, not to be locked in a small cage inside a laboratory awaiting death or torture.
Animal research does bring up a critical ethical dilemma: does the likely benefit of the research outweigh the likely harm to the animal? In fact, experimenters and research institutions throughout the world, that are considered at the forefront of organism development and civilizational progress do not take animal testing lightly. These individuals that are more morally inclined and ethically developed than most members of society do actually weigh in the necessity of use of animal testing in their research. The use of animals in research is never undertaken lightly and no-one uses them unnecessarily or uncaringly. Also, medical and scientific organizations around the world agree that animals are essential in scientific research, for developing medicines and safety testing. Medical researchers do in fact rely on animal research to help us learn more about how the body works.
works cited:
Fisher, Elizabeth. "Why We Should Accept Animal Testing." The Huffington Post UK. UCL Neuroscience, 15 Sept. 2013. Web. 11 Nov. 2015. web.
Dania Adra
English 203
The Fight Against Animal Testing
Hyperlink: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/professor-elizabeth-fisher/why-we-should-accept-anim_b_3608923.html
Animal experimenters want us to believe that if they gave up their immoral habit, sick children and other disease and accident victims would drop dead. But the most significant trend in modern research in recent years has been the recognition that animals rarely serve as good models for the human body. In addition, fortunately, a wealth of cutting-edge, non-animal research methodologies promises a brighter future for both animal and human health. The fact is that experimenters already do test new drugs on people. No matter how many animal tests are undertaken, someone will always be the first human to be tested on. Because animal tests are so unreliable, they make those human trials all the more risky. Also, animals feel pain and fear just as we do, and their overwhelming natural inclinations, like ours, are to be free and to protect their own lives, not to be locked in a small cage inside a laboratory awaiting death or torture.
Animal research does bring up a critical ethical dilemma: does the likely benefit of the research outweigh the likely harm to the animal? In fact, experimenters and research institutions throughout the world, that are considered at the forefront of organism development and civilizational progress do not take animal testing lightly. These individuals that are more morally inclined and ethically developed than most members of society do actually weigh in the necessity of use of animal testing in their research. The use of animals in research is never undertaken lightly and no-one uses them unnecessarily or uncaringly. Also, medical and scientific organizations around the world agree that animals are essential in scientific research, for developing medicines and safety testing. Medical researchers do in fact rely on animal research to help us learn more about how the body works.
works cited:
Fisher, Elizabeth. "Why We Should Accept Animal Testing." The Huffington Post UK. UCL Neuroscience, 15 Sept. 2013. Web. 11 Nov. 2015. web.
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