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.

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before they are cleared for human

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I tend towards the viewpoint that animal testing is morally wrong, I would have to support a limited amount of animal

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for the development of medicines. On the one hand, there are clear ethical arguments against animal

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practice, laboratory mice may be given an illness so that the effectiveness of a new drug can be measured. Opponents of

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argue that humans have no right to subject

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and that the lives of all creatures should be respected. They believe that the benefits to humans do not justify the suffering caused

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and that scientists should

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alternative methods of

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, reliable alternatives to animal

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may not always be available. Supporters of the

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of

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in medical

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believe that a certain amount of suffering on the part of mice or rats can be justified if human lives are saved. They argue that opponents of

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might feel differently if a member of their own

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needed a medical treatment that had been developed through the

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of animal

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. Personally, I agree with the banning of animal testing for non-medical products, but I feel that it may be a necessary evil where new drugs and medical procedures are concerned. In conclusion, it seems to me that it would be wrong to ban testing on

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for vital medical

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until equally effective alternatives have been developed.