What medical/technological benefits has animal testing provided to society?

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Answer 1

For years a debate has ensued over the practice of animal research and experimentation. The scientific community and animal rights activists have disagreed as to whether the benefits of animal research and experimentation are worth the pain and suffering that these experiments often cause to the animal subjects. Scientific advances have greatly reduced the number and severity of animal experiments that take place

There are two main categories of animal experimentation and research, medical and cosmetic.

Medical testing involves testing new drugs for their levels of toxicity and trying out new medical procedures. Animals are used to represent humans and human reactions in these tests in order to analyze the potential impacts of the drugs or procedures on humans

Cosmetic testing is use of animals to test the risks involved with the use of certain cosmetics and household products. This type of experimentation predicts the irritation levels of these products and any dangers they may pose to humans

WITHOUT ANIMAL RESEARCH:
*60 MILLION PEOPLE MAY RISK DEATH FROM HEART ATTACK, STROKE, OR KIDNEY FAILURE FROM LACK OF MEDICATION TO CONTROL THEIR HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE.
*7,5000 NEWBORNS WHO CONTRACT JAUNDICE EACH YEAR WOULD DEVELOP CEREBRAL PALSY, NOW PREVENTABLE THROUGH PHOTO THERAPY.
*POLIO WOULD KILL OR CRIPPLE THOUSANDS OF UNVACCINATED CHILDREN AND ADULTS THIS YEAR.
*MILLIONS OF DOGS, CATS, AND OTHER PEYS AND FARM ANIMALS WOULD DIE FROM ANTHRAX, DISTEMPER, CANINE PARVOVIRUS, FELINE LEUKEMIA, RABIES AND MORE THAN 200 OTHER DISEASES NOW PREVENTABLE THANKS TO ANIMAL RESEACH.

Answer 2

Well, sources are good, but you can take the example of basically every drug ever put on the market. All drugs go through animal testing prior to approval for testing on humans. Much of animal testing is unnecessary and cruel, such as that done by the cosmetics industry, but animal testing is absolutely vital to the field of biological and medical research.

Answer 3

Not just drugs, but every medical ddevice that is used in a procedure on a person has had extensive animal testing beforehand, and an I ever thankfull. Some of the devices I have worked on have actually been used on me.

Answer 4

In addition to the many, many drugs and therapies that have been developed using animal testing, did you know that many doctors learn invasive techniques on animals?

Would you rather have that new doctor practice his laparoscopic skills on an anesthetized animal or on YOU?

I first learned to do a venous cut down, chest tube placement and tracheostomy on a goat.

I could always use some more practice.... want to volunteer? :)

Answer 5

You adult males can eat good and correctly with out the phobia of their not being any foodstuff on the cabinets. Society would moan approximately paying us our single farm fee as being a issue yet it is so which you adult males can get solid foodstuff at a useful value, and not ought to run off staple diets. Animals income because of the fact they are in the trusting palms of the British Farmer who will comprehend what he/she is doing and could decide to shelter them, because of the fact we are inspected each and all of the time by ability of numerous government people. Then it being commercial they have have been given distinctive pals to hold out with!!

Answer 6

thier life is not valuable as ours the scientists think. to invent drugs for us they r tested on lab animals . we are safe to take those tested medicines