Someone in support of animal testing may further argue that if you try to prevent animals from been tested, should you stop people eating meat? It can be argued that killing an animal for food is no different that killing an animal whilst testing a new product or medicine. Humans it can be said eat animals for pleasure, as they enjoy the taste of that particular meat, whereas the testing of products on animals is not for pleasure, its to further someone’s life or develop a pharmatrecual product. From this, animal testing may be argued to be justified as humans appear more than willing to kill animals for food in order to survive, so the killing of animals through animal testing in order to help humans survive can be seen to be no different.
However, Someone with an opposing view may argue that testing drugs on animals often gives defective results, so is there really any need for the experiments to be carried out? Although animals to some people appear to be the perfect candidates for such testing, as the lives of animals are not seem to measure with that of humans, the experiments are in fact untrustworthy and may give unknown side effects. These different side effects from experiments occur as the physical anatomy of animals and humans is considerably different and it can be noted that animal testing does not foreshadow human reactions to the product. From this, it can be said testing on animals is not right as the desired results will not be accurate to the human body and these inaccuracies may later be blamed for many deaths.
Many people argue that although animals appear physically different to humans through appearance and organs the biological definition for humans and animals is exactly the same. “[A] Ny living organism, excluding plants and bacteria: most animals can move about independently and have specialized sense organs that enable them to react quickly to stimuli: animals do not have cell walls, nor do they make food by photosynthesis. This definition it can be argued confirms that in fact humans are animals and although humans and animals have physical differences the similarities between are immense. Both humans and animals communicate in the same measures, eat the same food; sleep and drink and more similarities are progressively evolving. So although someone may argue that the lives of animals do not appear to be of the same value as humans lives so therefore animal testing to an extent is justifiable, humans and animals appear so closely linked it does not seem fair to put an animal through multiple tests in order for a human to have extra hold hairspray.
It is fair to point out that testing on animals does not seem right as there are test tube experiments, computer simulations available for testing medicines and other products on animals. Many of these techniques are valuable, and are used by scientists on a regular basis and for this reasons animal testing does not seem right, as alternative methods are available. However, these methods like animal testing do not always show us what we need to know. Mixing human cells with a new drug in a test tube doesn't show how the drug will affect an entire human body and also takes a far greater amount of time than testing on an animal. The anatomy of animal is far too complicated for computers to simulate perfectly, so this method would not seem as effective and like animal testing often proves untrustworthy, it can be argued so would this method.
To conclude it can be argued that the world today appears less aware of the pain and suffering that animal testing is actually inflicting on animals, and from this animals importance within society is judged to be in-comprisal to that of human importance. I agree to an extent that animal testing does seem right in certain instances, as without the use of animal testing medicine may be not where it is today. Treatment towards curing the disease of cancer may not have progressed and millions of humans live therefore sacrificed. However, similarly to humans, animals have put been on this earth and created by God in order to live. Genesis puts out that we should love all of Gods creations, and it is for this reason I believe animal testing can never be justified. Animals have the right to life as much as humans, and to an extent I agree that humans should not compromise these lives in order for our own lives to be more enjoyable.
