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 views and give your own opinion.

Governments and citizens across the world are facing an ethical dilemma over the use of animals in laboratory testing for drugs and other products. While I tend towards the viewpoint that animal testing is morally wrong, I would have to support a limited amount of animal-based experiments for the well-being of humanity. On the one hand, there are clear ethical arguments against animal experiments. To use a common example of

this

practice, laboratory mice

is given

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are given

an illness so that the effectiveness of a new drug can be measured. Opponents of

such

experiments argue that humans have no right to subject animals to

this

kind of trauma, and that the lives of all creatures should be equally respected.

Therefore

, they believe that the benefits to humans do not justify the suffering caused, and that scientist should use alternative methods of research.

On the other hand

, a fact to support animal-based experiments is that there is little chance of finding satisfying substitutions for animals. Animals bear a close resemblance to humans, either in

behavior

manner of acting or controlling yourself

behaviour

or in cell structure.

In addition

, they respond to external disturbances

such

as electrical shock nearly in the same manner as humans do. Many evidences suggest that most of what people know about themselves,

such

as pain, stress or nutrition, is based on experiments

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on

animals.

Therefore

, animal testing proves one of the main approaches to predict the risks when drugs or other products are used on humans. In conclusion, it seems to me that it would be wrong to ban testing on animals for vital medical research until equally effective alternatives have been developed.