Animal Rights - Medical Research

Animal Rights - Medical Research

Many are concerned regarding animal rights, however the fact is that millions of people benefit from modern medicines and treatments that extend and/or improve the quality of life that result from using animals for medical research (Animals pp).

Every new prescription medicine must be studied in animals before it can be tested on humans, and although advances in computer and test tube methods are always used first, many of the potential effects of medicines are the result of chains of biological reactions that can only be investigated in a living body in which all the cells, organ and systems are working together because no combination of computer models and work on isolated cells and tissue can reproduce the vast complexity of the body (Animals pp).

The majority of the more complex effects of medicines in humans can be predicted from well-designed animal studies, thus, giving researchers the guidance to determine whether a new medicine warrants further testing and then used in humans (Animals pp). Society at large does not and would not permit risking harm to humans in order to avoid using animals for research (Animals pp).