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Animal Medical Experimentation [debate project]?
We are AGAINST animal MEDICAL experimentation in our debate project and would like to know some peoples' opinions on quotes from an article that is FOR animal medical experimentation. what would you say to these: 1. "Some people also argue that animal research is no longer necessary because modern technology can replace the use of animals...However, many factors affecting both human and animal lives can only be studied using research animals. The use of research animals has been and will continue to be essential to finding the causes and cures for many diseases. 2. Rats are valuable research subjects because their body systems are similar to humans and other animals in many respects. The animals are also susceptible to many of the diseases that affect humans...whenever surgery is performed, anesthesia is used. 3. Research involving animals has helped identify the causes of high blood pressure and develop more effective drugs to control the problems. Other research has resulted in treatments for strokes and heart attacks that save thousands of lives and reduce recovery time. 4. Dogs have been especially important to researchers who developed open-heart surgery, pacemakers, and heart transplants. These techniques have revolutionized the therapy for people who have severe heart disease. 5. According to Dr. Joseph Murray, winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Medicine, "There would not be a single person alive today as a result of organ transplant or bone-marrow transplant without animal experimentation." My partner and I really need some different perspectives against/for these quotes and would like to know the many opinions on animal medical experimentation. We are against it for this debate. thanks in advance ;]
Public Comments
- I personally worked at Roche Pharmaceuticals in Palo Alto, California as a contractor for Manpower around June of 2007. I delivered mail from building to building. The only building I did not go in was the building with the animals. They had alot of tight security specifically on that building, because many animal activists had tried sneaking in there to try to get pictures to show people. One day, the person who normally delivers the mail called out sick, so my supervisor brought me over there to help him deliver the mail. I saw the rooms where they keep the animals and it's horrible. They have dogs, monkeys, cats, everything in there. They keep them in small cages with nothing under them but steel mesh (no blankets or anything) in cold laboratory rooms. It was one of the saddest things I have ever seen, because I know in addition to getting burned for tests and getting sprayed in the eyes and things like that, they have to live in this depressing environment on top of that. My mother died from cancer and never smoked a cigarette in her life. I don't think that's fair, the animals, or my mother. I understand that by testing on animals, it may provide more medicines for people like my mother so people like her don't die, but at the same time, I don't think we have the right to treat animals like that and especially the way Roche treats them. It is hard to say where I stand on the issue, because I realize how important the animals are for the experimentation process, but at the same time, I know it's not right, so maybe we are just selfish as human beings and it's just easier to test it on them then to try to find alternative ways to test that are just good. If they must test, I wish they would treat the animals better while they are doing it, at least. The animals should be able to live in a normal environment, at least. I left Roche/Manpower a week after I saw that. Sorry I can't give you any points for your argument, but I still feel obligated to comment on what I saw just in case anybody reads this and cares.
