Animal Testing: Advantages, Disadvantages and Position

Animal
testing

Table of Contents
Introduction..................................................................................................................................3
Methodology................................................................................................................................3
Advantages and disadvantages of animal testing........................................................................3
Conclusion...................................................................................................................................3
Would you appreciate it or not?...................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

Introduction
Animal experimentation is not only harsh, but it is also frequently useless. Many human
diseases, also including major related to heart disease, many types of cancer, HIV, Parkinson's
disease, and schizophrenia, do not affect animals (Garattini and Grignaschi, 2017). In order to
replicate the human sickness, indications of these diseases are artificially produced in animals in
laboratories. Such trials, however, minimise the complexity of human conditions, which are
influenced by a wide range of elements such as heredity, socioeconomic considerations, deep-
seated psychological difficulties, and a variety of life experiences.
Methodology
Laboratory protocols and environments have uncontrollable effects on animal biology, which can
have an impact on study outcomes. Animals in laboratories are kept in artificial surroundings for
the duration of their life, usually in windowless chambers (Madden and et.al, 2020). Captivity
and sharing of common of scientific experiments, such as artificial illumination, life form noises,
and confined housing settings, might prohibit animals from exhibiting species-typical
behaviours, resulting in unhappiness and deviant behaviour.
Results
The study also found that drug experiments on monkeys are just as bad at predicting the effects
on people as tests on any other species. Only 19 percent of 93 serious drug side effects could
have been predicted by animal experiments, according to a new study. Only around 10% of over
1,000 putative stroke therapies that had been deemed "effective" in animal research moved to
human trials. None of them functioned well enough in humans (Sreedhar and et.al, 2020). 90%
of medications fail in human trials despite passing preclinical tests (including animal tests) -
either because they are unsafe or because they are ineffective. Cancer treatments have the lowest
success rate (only 5% of them are approved after going through clinical trials), followed by
psychiatry drugs (6%), heart therapies (7%), and neurology drugs (8%). (8 percent success rate).
According to our findings, using dogs, rats, mice, and rabbits to determine whether or not a
medicine is safe for people delivers little statistically useful information. Many disease affecting
humans, such as Parkinson's disease, major types of heart disease, many cancer types, Vascular
dementia, HIV, and insanity, do not affect animals.