No one relishes using animals for experimentation, but the medical community has long insisted that such research helps develop potentially life-saving drugs and treatments. Is this justification compelling enough to continue using animals for medical research?
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Can Medical Research on Animals be Justified?
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While I in some ways oppose animal testing it has very little to do with what most of its opposition is against it for. To me ,I see humans trying to find a cure for every single illness that comes along which is why we have more than doubled the average life span of us. While that may be great and all it does nothing for the problem of our population. Gone are the days of if someone got a certain disease it was their time to go. We are in such a frenzy to prolong our lives or the lives of others that we have upset the natural balance of things.
While testing on animals is one thing , what about the cures that are discovered from them. One that I am not sure to many people know about is developement of a cure for AIDS or HIV by studies done on crocodilians. They have injected crocs with the virus and their immune system kills it dead. While I myself have been celibite from about nine years I could care less if they find a cure. I don't wish harm to anyone but once again, sometimes it's just our time to go. If enough people are oppessed to it on the sole reason of animal rights then they should devise a plan of how to make all testing done on humans. To only oppose animal testing without a new plan being offered is leaving details unattended that damage their cause. Since very few people will understand or agree with my opposition to testing because the majority of people are scared of death without a human testing program animals will continue to be tested on.
- Mcdowelli76
June 1, 2009 6:33PM
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