Nowadays animal experiments are widely used to develop new medicines and to test the safety of other products. Some people argue that these experiments should be banned because it is morally wrong to cause animals to suffer, while others are in favour of them because of their benefits to humanity. Discuss both view and give your opinion.

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One of the most heated debates of the
last
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few decades has been the extent to which humans should allow animal experiments or avoid it due to
ethical reason
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ethical reasons
. It is usually argued that testing on animals is an inhumane crime, while the others believe that
this
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kind of experiment can contribute to the development of humankind.
This
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essay agrees that animal testing should be eliminated because it causes more
damages
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damage
than being useful for
humane society
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the humane society
a humane society
humane societies
. Those who support animal
test
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testing
claim that because scientists cannot
perfom
carry out or perform an action
perform
experiment
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experiments
on a human being, using non-human animals in laboratories are the only method that can give the most accurate result to develop medical treatments or check the safety of other products
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as cosmetics or detergent. According to USA National Academy of Science, the interactions between a living organism and the environment or the chemicals are so complicated that it cannot be simulated by even the most sophisticated computer model on earth.
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, since most of the animals which are used in the laboratories
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as rats,
mices
any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails
mice
, fishes or
sheeps
woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat
sheep
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lack intelligence, many people believe that their lives are worth less than the life of a human and
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it is permissible to harm
them to
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them, to
ensure the future of mankind, especially in the case of finding a cure to treat deadly diseases
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as Ebola or HIV. Meanwhile, opponents of animal experimentation – sometimes called animal rights activists – argue that since animals used in experiments are usually exposed to cruel procedures which cause extreme pain and suffering
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as force feeding, forced injection or food and water deprivation,
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kind of experimental research is considered to be immoral.
Newest
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Newer
research has
proved
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proven
that animals have the same capacity as humans to feel pain and experience distress when being harmed and killed,
therefore
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people do not have right to cause suffering and death to other species.
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, animal tests are really expensive and do not give reliable results in
some
one or some or every or all without specification
any
occasions.
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, some medical reports in
1950s
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the 1950s
showed that sleeping pills had caused serious side-effect on pregnant women and their babies, despite having tested on animals prior to its commercial release and costed the US government more than $10 billion. It must be said that recent technological breakthroughs have introduced many alternative testing
method
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methods
that can replace animals in laboratories
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as artificial human skin or virtual cells which are cheaper and potentially more efficient than animal experimentation. For
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reason, I believe that humankind should stop
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animal cruelty and figure out better method to test products or find life-saving treatments. In conclusion, while there are convincing arguments on both sides of the debate, it cannot be denied that even though animal experiments still give some benefits to humane society, its unethical approach and unstable prediction of
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effects
on humans outweigh its plausible advantages.
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, animal testing should be replaced by better practices in the future.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • Ethics
  • Morality
  • Vivisection
  • In vivo testing
  • Cruelty-free
  • Animal welfare
  • Biomedical research
  • Toxicology
  • Sentience
  • Compassionate
  • Humane
  • Speciesism
  • In vitro
  • Alternative methods
  • Pharmacology
  • Clinical trials
  • Bioethics
  • Animal rights
  • Pain threshold
  • Efficacy
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