Every animals have feelings and want to live their lives without pain. Have scientist ever thought about its? Most researchers only think about how they can become famous and recognized by discovering new drugs that will help prevent and cure humans from deadly diseases. Should they experiment their new drug on something that will give them the same results as animals? Is this a time for them to stop animal testing? Yes, researcher should stop making animals suffer from drugs testing.
Federal agencies have estimated that the number of animals in research is as high as 17 million to 22 million each year. Those animals include 50,000 cats, 61,000 primates, 180,000 dogs, 554,000 rabbits and 1 million mice and rats. Rats, mice and other rodents make up 90 percent of animal testing. Scientists are using them to study diseases such as cancer, diabetes and AIDS. So, they can say that killing is not without purpose; it has immense practical benefits for humans who are waiting for medicine to save their lives.
Scientists will expose them to deadly diseases to discover and see whether medicines that they have come up with will be able to a cure disease or not. Therefore, 50 million animals are killed annually in U.S. labs for medical and scientific research. For example, the medical research at California National Primate Research Center used macaque monkeys with hope that the experiment will lead to success by slowing the brain deterioration in Alzheimer’s patients. Scientists also use the monkeys to explore potential treatments for human ailments such as cancer. Those monkeys never have a chance to live freely and survive like the others that live in the forest; however, they give their lives testing different chemicals when they are at young age.
Nobody would have thought that cute pets like dogs that people are taking care of dogs like their own son or daughter. So, it hard for them to hear about dogs go through a heart transplant experiments. Dogs are essential to study for the cardiovascular system and to discover ways to treat and prevent diseases of the heart and arteries. The first attempt was with laboratory dogs at Stanford in the late 1950’s but bodies rejected the new heart. Since then, researchers around the nation have used dogs and other laboratory animals to come up with the drugs to prevent the body from rejecting the new heart. Success rates are increasing with many operational experiments.
Currently, Scientists have developed valuable non-animal research, such as tissue and cell cultures and computer models. This makes the number of animals in research decrease each year, according to the survey by the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences. Also, the organization called People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) exposed the photographs of mistreatment of seventeen monkeys that were being studied on spinal-cord injuries. The pictures show that the researcher had severed nerves to the monkeys’ arms and testing their ability to use crippled limbs by shocking the animals when they had failed.
It hurts my feelings to know that some of our best friends, pet with unconditional love, have to go through the pain of chemical treatment. It is so unacceptable and makes me feel that the researchers have crossed the line even though they could say that animals are close to humans and the medicine that scientists discover will save many lives in the future. There are millions of animals who have died before an experiment has reached success. I think it is a time for people to consider this topic seriously. People who support and are against animal testing should make an agreement with scientists on the number of animals that go through the tests. If researchers do something that is inappropriate with the animals then supporters and detractors can join together against the experiments and the anti-animal testing supports will not threaten scientist’s life. However, not all scientists will do unsuitable action with animals’ body. Their action will show that they are concerned about what those animals have to go though in order to find a cure for diseases. The anti testing and supporter could also ask the government to get researchers to produce new technology that will help them come up with a new treatment for deadly diseases. New technology will helps save animals lives and also provide us with safe drugs. So, it will be like we exchange life to extend another life.
