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

In the developing world there are new medicines and drugs are produced by leaps and bounds. Experts used animals for testing drugs and medicine it is totally wrong. If we have right to live. Animals should have also right to live. God has created us equally. So be intelligent and understood. Don't kill animals.

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.

Animals could not be used for testing new drugs because many of these experiments cause pain to the animals involved or reduce their quality of life in other ways. If it is morally wrong to cause animals to suffer then experimenting on animals produces serious moral problems.

It causes suffering to animals the benefits to human beings are not proven any benefits to human beings that animal testing does provide could be produced in other ways also.

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.

I believe that animal testing at one point could of been acceptable. Now though, when they have alternate methods that are more accurate, I see no reason to continue this torturing and killing of animals. Their are plenty of tests out there now making it possible to test with great accuracy without even having an animal present.

Why don't people use that then? The big corporations are greedy and will choose the cheapest method. Even if it could lead to a possible lawsuit when the inaccuracy of the test makes the product fail in the real world.

All of them are worse. If animals will not be used for testing drugs then on whom we can't take or risk the lives of many people. Moreover drugs are tested mostly on rats whose population will never end. They reproduce in unfavorable conditions also.

Hello everyone.

One point is very clear from the discussion is that killing for is not at all right. Who are we to take away the life of these innocent creatures. The next point arises is that what second option do we have. At present we don't have the solution for this problem. Using animals for drug test is inhuman but science has not evolved much that it can provide a solution. Soon may be a better option will be available to us.

Coming back to the point that animals should be used for testing drugs or not. I think if its the only option available then it should be done in a limited way. Humans are top in the food cycle and for surviving, depends on the lower rank animals. Its the natures rule. Hope, situation will change soon with a better option.

I think living things have right to live. But humans are more important than other creatures, and people are at the top of the creatures. So animals can be used for medical research when there is not another way, but it is much better to find alternatives for medical research on animals I am sure it is possible through technology development.

The animal is not valuable then the human. For saving the life of the human it is not a bad thing for test on animals. So according to me animal can be used for testing purpose only.

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.