Can anyone help me with an essay about whether animal testing is justified?

Answer 1

Structure your essay....

Introduction - what is animal testing

Methods of animal testing - e.g. equipment used, drugs, foods, chemicals etc

Current legislation - what is or isn't legal, animal care.

Benefits - e.g. to human health, scientific developments, medical research, cancer cures etc etc

Drawbacks - .e.g. animal suffering, do these drugs have a similar effect on animals as in humans, cost involved.

The Future - using cells and cell organelles, biotechnological advances.

Conclusion - draw the relevant points together, discuss the moral obligations humans have towards animals and whether or not they deserve to suffer just so we can benefit. How many of us take prescription drugs whilst moaning about animal testing? A lot!

I hope this helps.

Good luck!

Answer 2

This will not help your essay but I work in the medical profession where there is some animal testing and our animals are better taken care of than I am. We have had PETA and a few others come and have their little demonstrations but the fact of the matter is that because of animal testing these protesters will live to protest an average of 28 years longer.

Answer 3

First, you need to figure what sort of testing you are talking about.
After that, you need to discern what the animal goes through for the testing.
Then you have to ask yourself if the tests that the animal go through are to apoint where the life of the animal is diminished at all.

Aside from that, you need to find your references on what you are trying to say, but I would probably go through an outline depicting what the testing is, what the animal goes through, what the testing ultimately does physically to the animal, whether or not the life of the animal is diminished, and then I would state what the benefit of the testing satisfies...

I hope this helps

Answer 4

Look in to the history of animal testing and ask yourself if there was any other way that the same results could have been reached, if not the big question then becomes would we be so advanced medically and scientifically now if we hadn't done the tests?

Answer 5

i can give you my opion but thats about it you should google animal testing and see what that comes up with. My opinion is that animal testing is okay if its for medical research although i do understand peoples point when they say animals arent human so the results aren't the same but id rather a new drug be tested on a rat than a human but its not okay to test cosmetics or other such products on them.

Answer 6

Moral, ethical and scientific arguments. I suppose.
Animal testing might give us a way to test new drug treatments and new products without using humans to try them out.
Science has used animals for years and has ethical standards to keep good care of laboratory animals and reduce suffering.
Against animal testing is just that it still is a source of suffering, it is used wholesale by big industries and is morally wrong. Plenty of website materials to choose from.
Ethical companies like Body shop and CO-operative society would not support animal testing of products.

Answer 7

Danny, you have selected a very difficult subject - did you choose it or was it given to you? If you chose it, you need to research what animal testing is all about so you can write your essay objectively. If it was given to you, then you at least have the option to think about the subject and give your own views, preferably thinking in both camps.
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Answer 8

it's only justified if the testing doesn't harm the animals. but thats just my opinion

Answer 9

do a search on google scholar, if you have athens access (i.e through a university or college) log into that first (usually by going to your university intranet and logging into electronic resources).

It will give you a list of journal articles (lecturers love these in essays it shows you know your stuff), books, book reviews, and references to other literature.

I hope this helps you. good luck. x x