Animal Rights
Animal Rights
For the past few years, there has been an on-going, heated debate on whether experiments on animals for the benefit of medical and scientific research are ethical. I believe it is wrong, and that some form of cost-benefit test should be performed to determine if the action is right. The costs include: animal pain, distress, and death; where the benefits include the collection of knowledge and the development of new medical therapies for humans. Looking into these different aspects of the experimentation, there is a large gap for argument between the different scientists' views.
I believe that although animal experiments are sometimes intellectually intriguing, they are poorly suited to address the urgent health problems of our era, such as heart disease, cancer, stroke, AIDS, and birth defects. Animal experiments cannot only mislead researchers by even contribute to illnesses or deaths by failing to predict any toxic effect on drugs. The majority of animals......
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