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Animal Experiment

Animal Experiments
Academic Paper

Animals have been used in experiments and research for centuries. The earliest references to animal testing are found in the writings of the Greeks in the third and fourth centuries BC and using animal continuous increasingly to the present time. When the first rockets were launched there was a chimpanzee in this vehicle which went to death. In order to find new treatments, bacteria or viruses carrying disease were injected to laboratary animals. Many scientists had done vivisection to understand human’s physiology. Today animals are still used in the experiments and tests such as medical and veterinary research, drug research, agricultural experiments, household product tests, warfare and space research, psyhology expriments and genetic engineering research. According to BUAV (British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection) (n.d. ), almost three million animals are used for experiments in the UK every year. Therefore an animal dies in a laboratory somewhere in the UK every 12 seconds (n.pag.). As a result of all these reasons mentioned above people can not decide whether animal experiments should be done or not. Advocates of animal experiments claim that animals’ genes and psyhologies are like us and these similarities bring scientists great facilities for their researches about human health. And also they are likeminded that using human beings in some studies is very unethical instead of using animals. On the other hand, proponents of banning animal experiments argue that, these experiments are very barbaric and also useless. They defend using other applicable methods and developing these inoffensive methods.
In the light of all this information the aim of the literature part of this paper is to answer the fallowing question.
• According to medicine authorities, why are animal experiments useful and indispensable?
*A variety of reasons have been pointed to explain why animal experiments are useful and indispensable. In...