Arguments for animal research
Animal research works because:
- Animal testing has helped to develop vaccines against diseases like rabies, polio, measles, mumps, rubella and TB
- Antibiotics, HIV drugs, insulin and cancer treatments rely on animal tests. Other testing methods aren't advanced enough
- Scientists claim there are no differences in lab animals and humans that cannot be factored into tests
- Operations on animals helped to develop organ transplant and open-heart surgery techniques
Animal testing is morally right because:
- Human life has greater intrinsic value than animal life
- Legislation protects all lab animals from cruelty or mistreatment
- Millions of animals are killed for food every year - if anything, medical research is a more worthy death
- Few animals feel any pain as they are killed before they have the chance to suffer
