ARE YOU FOR OR AGAINST USING ANIMALS FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH?

Every year between 50 and 100 million animals are used for medical research. The more used ones are rats, because one of them has 95% of its similar genes to humans and it’s easy to get more, so in 2001, 80 million rats were sacrificed for a medical research experiment, but, it’s necessary to kill all these animals only for medical research? There are arguments both for and against this practice.

One of the arguments for animal testing is that thanks to their similarity to humans we have discovered many cures to different diseases, like the vaccines against the tuberculosis or the meningitis; also we have helped to the survival of cancer. In addition, we can experiment without the fear of losing a person, we can have a lot of rats and we don’t care if they finally die, but a person has family and a life and we can’t take the risk to lose this.

On the other hand, the medical research using animals is not 100% efficient because animals are not humans so maybe they can survive to a treatment that causes a human death or maybe a human disease is too much hard for an animal. Also even though humans are more important than animals, they’re important too; without them, the planet will be a big disaster, so we can’t kill all the animals we want to because that’s not good. Animals have the same rights to live which humans have.

All in all, I’m in favour of use animals for medical research because I think that with this method we can improve so much in medicine but I think that we should try to kill fewer animals.