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

Good evening friends.

In my point of view killing animals is not cruel thing. Medicines are made and must be tested with some living organism so that it would not affect humans. Diseases like cancer, TB. Etc are prevented with the help of these tested drugs. So it is happiest thing in our lives. I have read few above comments some are criticizing of killing animals. I will Obey with this but for eg. , if we go restaurant, we are getting non-veg and having it. That time you will not feel it as animal?

So I conclude, All are creatures only but for some creatures they have their own fulfillment in life. Every creature is meant for something.

Clinical trials on the animals should be reduce to some extend but not be banned because it is very important that any medicine or drug that is made should be properly tested on animals in the clinics so that the medicine is not going to harm health or have any side effect on human beings and may be human life may be saved from dangerous diseases like cancer, tuberculosis etc. Actually we don't have any option for clinical trials except animals.

Hello friends.

If beauty and brain is the parameter for a successful person, then probably most of the people end their ambitions in lagging either of the one above said features. Beauty is god given, and brain is equally gifted and the power or intellectual capacity depends upon sociology-psychological factors along with training and learning capacity of the brain. One has to train the brain to get acquaintance with knowledge.

But beauty has nothing to do. Suppose if we have medical emergency where we can only see people suffering, at that time only the medical knowledge which a doctor possess is hailed rather than the beauty of that doctor serving, similar is the condition with all other profession in the world which only demands brain but not the beauty. It's just a hype to combine the beauty and brain as a perfect blend to create a success formula.

Often beauty can fade away by age or illness, but the knowledge gained increases with sharing and learning. So there exists the upper hand of brain on beauty in the real world. Only in the modeling and female dominated professions beauty with brain fares well. In all other fields, brain is enough to be a part of solution.

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.

After reading all this, I think that animals are not to be tested. They should be tamed and pampered because they help us in many ways. We should ban the use of animals for drug development and medical research. We harm animals to satisfy our own benefits. Their life has been gifted by God which we are spoiling. Our life is also precious to us, as their life are precious to them. "Men has no right to destroy. What we cannot create". For this many species of animals have become extinct, endangering the ecological balance of nature.

Sad to say but yes animals should be used for drug tests.

Someone should be used for drug tests to study their effects and they are not humans because we are from human species and obviously partial towards ourselves.

So if you have an terrible disease and want a medicine would you take medicine without knowing it works or kills in some cases?

No right?

So they are the test subjects so that there is no harm to us.

Here it can't be totally prevented but the ones performing experiments should take as many precautions and antidotes as possible to save that poor creature if it is going to kill them.

Yes. Humans are killing millons of animals daily just for satisfing the taste of the tongue. In some countries live animals (pigs and oxen) are just thrown like toys into turning blades. If one sees such an incident directly, one turns into vegetarian on the spot. Such pathetic is their condition. Unfortunately, no one can stop this. If we are not bothered about this brutal purposeless killing, why should we bother about the killngs which are strongly purpose based. And if we compare the count in the both cases, killings for taste across the world in a day will be in some multiples of crores and that for research will be some multiples of hundreds.

If some people feel that using rats for research as a pathetic thing, I'm sure that they feel one lakh times more pathetic to see some ill fated humans suffering helplessly for an unknown new disease which has no medicine!

Animals should use in testing medical procedures. Because there are a lot of correlations between animals and humans including homologous genes, neurology, and molecular biological. This all comes from having a common ancestor and genes that have been retained though out generations. We have tested and found the best animals to test on and do so ethically through a progression starting with tissue cultures, then moving to mice, monkeys, and then chimpanzees before humans and more often than not these so-called tests have proved wrong and many drugs have been taken off the market. That's what animal testing is for.

Hi friends.

Absolutely not There is no correlation between animals and humans and more often than not these so-called tests have proved wrong and many drugs have been taken off the market. Scientists will babble on in theory, but pinned down cannot positively give a good argument that animals should be tested for human medications.

I think that animals should be tested on. You could just test it on rats. I bet lots of you do not like rats. Rats breed very constantly, so then if you test on them you don't put anybodies lives in danger. Even if you were to kill a rat their would be more rats born in the world.