Animal_Testing

Animal Testing Animal Testing/Experimentation: Why not' People who would end experimentation on laboratory animals don’t understand the importance it. They don’t realize that we have came a long way in animal research that has benefited humans tremendously. From bettering human bodies, curing diseases, and saving lives is all due to animal testing. (Hoagland 23) It is very easy to find extreme statements for and against experimentation on animals. Publications like Frank Stilley’s The $100,000 Rat and Other Animal Heroes for Human Health tend to paint a glowing picture of animal experimentation as untainted by inhumane practices and motivated by the pure selfless desire to better the human condition (Goodwin 217). There are six main reasons for animal testing. First, animals have a much simpler life span than humans. This means that they are less complicated. They are less complicated organically and psychologically. It would take years to understand a human organism. It would also take a long period of time to fully evaluate a human psychologically. If you study animals you can cut back on a lot of time (Hoagland 111). Secondly, animals usually have a shorter life span. This factor is important because the transmission of genetically determined traits is animal, animals, percent, research, human, testing, experimentation, about, one, experiments, people, humans, diseases, researchers, muscle, five, activists, should, hoagland, development, been, two, scientists, life, even, drugs, years, work, rights, new, long, group, before, way, very, treatments, time, take, study, pain, muscles, mice, medicine, medical, made, lives, health, four, experiment, discovery