" To KILL ,or not to KILL: that is the question"

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Marcin Stenka  Sem. IV Gr.”A”        Opinion essay

“ To KILL ,or not to KILL: that is the question”

Around the world, animals are used to test products ranging from hand cream to new cancer drugs. Almost every medical treatment you use has been tested on animals. The question is: should animals be used in medical experiments? I strongly believe that, even though people cause harm to animals ,these experiments are useful and not once saved life of human being.

        In the first place, without tests progress in medicine would not be possible and many of well known cosmetics would not exist. Antibiotics invented to cure great diseases such as: polio, measles, mumps ,rubella were also tested ,but not on human. For example ,animals were also used to develop anesthetics to prevent human pain and suffering during surgery. Moreover, HIV drugs and insulin rely on animal tests ,because other testing methods aren't advanced enough.

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Furthermore, human living standard goes up. Can one imagine better life without soap ,toothpaste, perfumes or make-up? Without mentioned people appearance and scent would not much differ from animals. For instance , currently cosmetics are used almost everywhere at home, at work etc. Many of us are not able to live without medicines. One can function as normal having incurable disease.

In addition to this, operations on animals helped to develop organ transplant. It is possible to change organs which does not work properly.

Open-heart surgery techniques have improved. In particular , humans cannot be factored just to breed organs.

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