Should Animals be used for Testing New Drugs & Medical Procedures?

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Nivedha yakshik said:   8 years ago
Good day, From my point of view, animals should not be tested for any kind of research. The life is also important, we must not be selfish. Humanity is most important. They are animals, they too have lives. Taking their lives for research is too vulnerable. No one has any rights to take their lives. Animals serve us in all the ways. From milk, their skin is used for making bags, their babies are also we are adopting (dogs, cars). They are useful to us, we are humans and we have some kind of morals. God gave us 6 sense to think what is right and what is wrong. Think that killing animals for our sake is right. We are using products given by animals and we are killing them, it right? Please, animals are also a living being. They are so innocent. Make them survive. We must protect them. Thank you.
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Amrit said:   1 decade ago
I support this. Don't you kill and eat animals when they have the right to live. Eating them benefits only one person, but experimenting on them benefits humanity.
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Nippon Mukherjee said:   8 years ago
The use of animals in testing medicine and drugs looks very cruel and inhuman because most of the time the innocent animals suffer and die. But there were no other options in the past for researchers to test those new drugs and chemical products. Now as the medical science has developed so much I think scientists should think about new options and minimize the use of animals as much as possible for this purpose. Also, test results on animals not always same for humans.

I have an idea which many of you may not agree if 'convicts who are sentenced to death' can be used for this kind of testing.

Thanks.
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Pareenaz said:   1 decade ago
NO, Animals are also the creation of GOD, and if we think that our life is precious and we feel the pain than we should not forget that animals are not the object, they also feel the pains like us. The only difference is that we can show our pain but they can't. So please don't be cruel and protect them. Our life is also directly or indirectly dependent on them, so at least for our own life we should stop our cruel activities.
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Prasanth said:   9 years ago
New drugs should not be tested on animals because they are innocent. Instead of that test those medicines on terrorist and rapist.
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Anonymous said:   1 decade ago
I think it is very cruel to use animals for drug development and research. Humans first only have caused tremendous damage to environment to meet their selfless need, if now is the turn of animals the whole ecological balance will be destroyed. Science and technology had taken man to such great extent, can't they find another way for testing? If they can take so much efforts for themselves, they should think about animals too.
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Uttara deb said:   8 years ago
Hello everyone. I would like to say something on today's topic which is should animals be used for testing new drugs and medical procedure? Well life is a gift of god. Be it human or anyother living being. We as humans don't have the authority to exploit any other without its consent. We don't use humans for medical testing cause humans can protest. They can sue each other in court for violating privacy. For centuries we humans have been using innocent animals like rabbit mice dogs monkeys as testers. They can't protect themselves. They die in pain in laboratories when wrong treatments are done on them. So we as human beings should be passionate to our fellow companions and become the voice for the voiceless. Testing on animals should be banned world wide. This is not only painful for them but equally painful for the compassionate humans. Instead science must develop ways and means to test on artificial limbs or artificial cells. It would be a cruelty free development for all. Thank you.
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Vishal sharma said:   8 years ago
Hello guys.

In my point of view, animals should never be used for testing new drugs and medical procedures because sometimes testing drugs on animals cause death of animals. Animals are living things like us, we do not have any right to play with their lives. I think scientist should discover some another method to test new drugs without hurting others.

Thank you.
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Surbhi said:   1 decade ago
No, animals should not be used for research. Why do we consider our own life precious than others? God has created us equally, then how can we even think animals inferior or their life worthless? The true spirit of one cannot accept the life given at the cost of other! Never! But remember that I am talking about true spirit, not a false one.
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Soundarya said:   1 decade ago
I think its a ruthless way. The greatness and efficiency of any experiment lies not only in how efficiently its carried out but also how ethically its approached. Since science and technology is taking shape day by day, I hope man can definitely find out a way to work in an alternate method. I never understand why people fail to understand that animals too have something called emotions. Just because they are superior to man doesn't mean they have to be sacrificed for the development of human society. I agree its not advisable to set human life under risk, but a point can be made out that these experiments can be conducted on prisoners who are kept in prisons to be executed.
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