Some people argue that all experimentation on animals is bad and should be outlawed. However, others believe that important scientific discoveries can be made from animal experiments. Can experimentation on animals be justified? Are there any alternatives?

Over the past few decades, animal testing has been fiercely debated

due to

the ethical problems inherent in

this

area of science.

This

essay will explain why it cannot be justified and that alternatives need to be sought. The

people

who believe that animal testing is necessary tend to say that there are serious benefits to humanity,

such

as testing medicines before using them on human beings. They believe that

this

will help to figure out the cures for many serious illnesses, which will make the world a better place for humans.

However

,

this

is wrong for several reasons. Chief among them is the fact that animal testing is not as helpful in developing medicines as

people

think. Medicines that work on animals do not always work on humans, and vice versa. As

such

, these trials are not just unnecessary but

also

profoundly unhelpful.

For example

, if scientists give a mouse diabetes and

then

try various drugs to cure the problem, they may find that there are twelve drugs that do not work on the mouse.

However

, maybe one of those drugs would have worked on a human. As

such

, animal testing would have caused more problems than it solved. Part of the reason for animal testing is that there are not many alternatives. Whilst it is obviously cruel and pointless to subject animals to experiments, most

people

would agree that it is worse to do

this

to human beings.

However

, there needs to be some sort of procedure by which testing can move from theoretical to human trials without the need for the evils of animal testing. What

this

process would be remains to be seen, but it is essential for any humane society. In conclusion,

people

may argue that there are benefits that come from experimenting on animals, but in fact, there is no good reason to continue doing

this

. Scientists need to immediately seek an alternative and end

this

barbaric and pointless practice.