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.

Banishments of animal experiments have been debated for a long time. As animal rights are considered important by more and more people, the arguments become heated.

However

, animal experiments play an important role in advancing medical technology in modern days. In the animal rights protests' view,

animals

acquire the nerve system in similarities with humans.

As a result

,

animals

can feel pain and hurt not only physically but

also

mentally. As the old saying goes, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” They advocate that we shouldn’t treat

animals

as experimental subjects for the benefit of saving more humane lives, due to the development of medicines.

However

, in the experiment supporters’ opinions, it is necessary that sacrifice some

animals

’ lives to save more humans, because lots of diseases spread across the world to cause thousands of people’s death. For the inventions of medicines, there must be experiment subjects. What if we use the human body to do trials, it will cause more moral and legal issues to deal with. In spite of morals, the cost of human body experiments is higher, and it creates more barriers for the researchers. As a psychology undergraduate, I am inclined to the supportive side of animal tests, because it pushes the progress of human understanding no matter where perspectives are from, cognitive or biological. Due to animal tests, the nerve systems are investigated thoroughly, so the researchers use anaesthetics to make

animals

less painful. The experimental

animals

are like livestock, and the experimenters are forbidden to use wildlife to do research. Indeed, we trade humans’ health with

animals

’, and we just choose the lesser of two evils.