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

According to some people drug testing on animals is fine because " its not a big loss to lose them" well would you like it if some clinic needed to test a drug on dogs and they took your precious pet? It is a big loss to lose them because every animal counts. What has our society turned into? Taking innocent animals and giving them drugs to see if there's a reaction? Come on! But we can't just write on some website saying "this is bad, and all of you should be ashamed". Actually we are all guilty of this because we are the ones who support these companies by buying their products. So we have typed what we think needs to be done, but who will actually take action?

Shall we kill human beings to save animals? using animals in the drug development research help to save human life. Moreover, there are huge animals on the earth. Killing some of them doesn't make a huge difference because animals breed faster than human beings. Just think for yourself and get the answer, if you were put in a dilemma of saving an injured baby or an injured rat, which one would you have saved?

I believe that it is completely wrong for us humans to test drugs on animals however we must understand that animals feel a lot of pain.

The problem with all of this is that if we don't test the drugs then what are we supposed to test it on? the only other thing that we can test it on is humans but then again, what would you rather do. Save a life of a person or save a life of an animal? rats have a very very similar immune system as humans. Therefore, they are the only good thing we could use test thing to prevent bowel cancer. We then would know whether the things when eat are good for our immune system by seeing the results of the rats and the way they reacted to it. Therefore, I am still unsure whether testing drugs on animals should be carried out.

Using animals for testing new drugs is completely wrong! how would you like it if some strange animal came up to you, brought you to a strange workshop and forced you to eat unseen things? - maybe food!

I think it's ok to use animals to test products, etc, but we should do so in a sensible way.

Also, I think many people are ill-informed on this platform - when we talk about using animals to test drugs, it is not done in a cruel way that you may imagine it to be.

Usually, the animals are sedated and given the best possible care.

There are many restrictions in place which make sure that the animals are not misused and to make sure any pain is taken away as much as possible.

Without animal testing, we would never know if drugs, etc. Would be safe.

There is virtually no method that is as accurate an animal testing.

That's all. Thanks.

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.

Hi friends,

Yes the drugs should be tested on animals only. Because if they were directly tested on human, a huge loss will be there. So they should be tested on animals only. We can know the side affects and can proceed on further. If not on animals, then where should they be tested? Only the animals will have the same system like of human, so the animals were used for testing.

In my view, it is actually unpleasant to test on animals. But on the other way if I think the experiment on that couple of animals will save the lives of millions of people, who can help in the lead away to there country. The scientists should find out some alternatives to experiments on helpless animals.

Hi every one.

I agree with this. If animals are the right to live. Then why we kill and eat them. We kill animals for our food. Even though there is other options like vegetables, eggs etc. We can live without meat products. Then also we kill animals for food. If we can use animals as our food, then why can't be it is used as testing medicines. We can't test new medicines in humans. So if it is for good for all human world. Definitely we can use animals for testing.

It is cruel How would you like to be tested on drugs that could be poisonous and kill you or make you feel like being sick? I think its cruel to lock animals up in cages and feed them drugs. If your that desperate to see if the drug is toxic or not you should try the drug yourself.