Nowadays
medical research uses millions of animals in tests. In Spain, thousands of
animals die every year due to experiments after days, weeks, months or years of
suffering. This mortality has increased fifty-one per cent in the last years.
On the other land thanks to this, we can treat diseases which before that were
incurable or lethal. So, there are arguments for and against this practice.
One
of the arguments for using animals for medical research is that with this
practice we have developed new treatments, above all in regenerative medicine.
Also we can ensure that drugs aren’t harmful for our health. This form of
research is regulated so therefore, it’s not necessary mistreat the animals.
Nevertheless,
there are other opinions. The animals are usually in awful conditions. Often
animals are in small and individual cages, although they are a social species.
Also experiments cause pain and horror to animals. Normally the animals die,
during the experiment or after it. In addition, animals may be private of food,
water or sleeping. In some cases, this practice doesn’t work, for example in
one occasion, a drug was to market and it caused side effects, some babies were
born with deformities. The problem was that the effects on humans are different
to the effects in animals.
In conclusion, I am not in favour of using animals in the medical research. Maybe in the past there weren’t any more ways to create and test drugs. But now it’s different, we have technology and more improvements in medicine, so we can avoid this cruel practice. Or at least minimize and control this type of research.
In conclusion, I am not in favour of using animals in the medical research. Maybe in the past there weren’t any more ways to create and test drugs. But now it’s different, we have technology and more improvements in medicine, so we can avoid this cruel practice. Or at least minimize and control this type of research.
