Pros And Cons Of Animal Testing. Is Animal Testing Right Or Wrong?

Animal testing is the use of non-human animals for scientific experimentation. Animal testing has been used since ages in the world in universities, medical schools, pharmaceutical companies, farms, defense establishments and even commercial facilities. They help with subjects such as genetics, developmental biology, behavioral studies, biomedical research, xenotransplantation etc.

The pros of animal testing are as follows:
- It helps in finding exact cure for human diseases.
- It plays a great role in economy.
- It helps a lot in scientific research.


The cons of animal testing are as follows:

- It is hazardous to lives of animals.
- It can be misleading as animals and humans are different.
- Animal testing procedures are painful for animals.

It is up to individuals to decide whether it is wrong or right based on its advantages and disadvantages. However, I personally feel it is totally wrong and alternative procedures should be used in research.

It not right or wrong every 1 has thietr own opinion

I am actually doing an english essay on why animal testing should be banned worldwide. I have come up with 4 reasons why: 1)animal testing costs a lot to perform-food, controlled environment, cost of the animal itself, and the cost of the substance that is to be performed/tested on the animal 2)animals and humans are very different so they will react different to different substances. These are cons to animal testing and I completely believe that animal testing is wrong! I think people that are pro-animal testing should do more research on what actually goes on and what happens to animals in testing laboratories. <

Animal testing is wrong if its for make-up and other non- necessary products it kills the animals did u know they rip the animals skin off and make bunnies go blind to test make up?!?!?!? W0w thats way wrong and how would u like it if a random guy comes into your house and takes you away from your family and kills you to test on ! Im for it if it has to do w/ health of humans but if its for dumb MAKE UP NO STOP ANIMAL TESTING!

I think that animal testing is 95% wrong and 5% right, (as long as animals aren't severely hurt or killed. If that's the case then I say it's wrong 100%edly!!). It really depends on personal opinion, whether or not you think it's good or bad though. I've done some research and I found valid information regarding both sides.

PROS: saves many lives every year, scientists can learn more about the body, helped with complex surgical techniques, products for humans are tested to be safe, money and effort is being put forth for more humane techniques, almost every large medical discovery in the last 100 years has been found with animal testing, it is vital to medical progression, led to life-saving vaccines for humans and animals, a vaccine for AIDS has been found (for partial immunity), protects the public from chemicals that are very harmful, etc...

CONS: the stress on animals could make some test results invalid, test animals have no freedom; forced to suffer purposeful diseases, the alternatives could be dangerous to scientists and be less correct than using an animal, the animals don't have a choice, repeated tests cause useless suffering, the U.S. Uses 15-20 MILLION animals a year for dissection and testing, animals can get permanently addicted to harmful drugs, some labs keep animals in unsanitary conditions, wounds don't always get bandaged, tests are limited, some things safe for animals are not safe for humans creating false security, 8.8% of animals do not get pain relief (purposely put in pain for study), some animals bred with disease and destines to die, animals can't communicate feelings with humans, can not always detect nausea, headache, and depression in animals, etc...

                 ESTIMATIONS

animals on average suffer...

54%= no pain/minor pain
26%= moderate pain
20%= severe pain =(


             The decision is yours, but I hope this was helpful!! =D

Animal Testing is 100% needed in our world! As you probably know, penicillin is in almost EVERY prescription drug! Many people depend on those penicillin~based drugs to keep waking up in the morning! And penicillin was tested on mice! That distinguished the fact that penicillin was to benefit human kind! And it did! All the animals being used for testing have at least 90% DNA similarities to humans, so the result is almost always correct.
Some people argue that we have modern tech. That we can use in place of animals. WHAT TECHNOLOGY? You can't test a new medicine on a hunk of machinery! WE NEED ANIMALS FOR TESTING!

It is wrong because animals are dieing

Animal testing is wrong the hurt and kill animals every day . What is t was you in that lab think about it think long and hard? Who needs makeup anyway dont you know your beautiful. God made you the way you are.

Animal Testing is right because we have nothing else to test on.So the decision is yours its either you or the animal that dies

Animal testing is right because thats how doctors find cure for sick people.... It sounds wrong because we kill them but did all yall girls know that the makeup yall use they use animals to make it?! I think animal testing is RIGHT!!!!!!

I also thing it is wrong to do animal testing. They don't deserve to get hurt or die from all the chemicals they are being tested with

I think it is very wrong. I also don't think it is an opinion because people would not think of it as an opinion if it were their family or friends so how do they know animals don't care about their relatives

It is wrong because animals get hurt