Реферат: Medical Testing On Animals Essay Research Paper

front yard. Imagine your pet one day being crammed into a cage with

ten other animals waiting to die like approximately 20-100 million

other animals do each year in numerous unreliable tests.

More than 205,000 new drugs are marketed worldwide every year,

most after undergoing the most common unreliable test method still in

use: animal vivisection. The current system of drug testing places

consumers in a dangerous predicament. According to the General

Accounting Office, more than half of the prescription drugs approved

by the Food and Drug Administration between 1976 and 1985 caused

serious side effects that later caused the drugs to be either

re-labeled or removed from the market. The following drugs passed

safe in animal experiments but proved tragic consequences in humans:

Opren: 3500 people suffered serious side effects including damage to

skin, eyes, liver, and kidneys. Thalidomide: Caused about 10,000 birth

defects worldwide Clioquinol: Caused 30,000 cases of blindness and/or

paralysis and thousands of deaths

Conversely, many drugs that are beneficial to humans are

dangerous or even fatal to animals:

Penicillin: An antibiotic to humans, but kill’s guinea pigs.

Aspirin: Caused birth defects in rats, mice, monkeys, guinea pigs,

cats and dogs, but not humans.

This is obvious proof that testing on animals is unreliable, but

sadistic tests still go on every day. The Physicians Committee for

Responsible Medicine reports that sophisticated non-animal research

methods are more accurate, less expensive, and less-time consuming

than traditional animal based research methods. Fewer accidental

deaths caused by drugs and treatments would occur if stubborn

bureaucrats and wealthy vivisectors would use the more accurate

alternatives such as: