Animal testing is ethnically wrong and incompetent. Less than 10% of trials that pass animal testing pass human trials. This is because humans differ from animals in so many ways there is little to no chance of knowing how these products “deemed fit” will affect humans. In part because “influencing factors such as gender, age, occupation, lifestyle, and disease are not taken into account, which is one of the reasons why only few substances successfully pass the clinical phase” (Strengelin, Thiele, Seiffert, 2022). In reality not much will change if we stop the use of animal testing. Except maybe we will save a couple billion dollars each year.
It costs the United States billions of dollars each year to fund animal testing practices. “From an economic standpoint, animal experiments are resource-intensive (time-consuming and costly) and require skilled labor. For example, drug approval takes 10–15 years” (Strengelin, Thiele, Seiffert, 2022).
The American Physiological Society (2019) states animals are used as testing subjects because “scientists can control the environment around the animal (diet, temperature, lighting, etc.), which would be difficult to do with people”. But when this drug or product hits human consumption how effective will it be given humans will not be in the same controlled environment? The answer is, it’s not.
“If the results of the animal studies are favorable, human volunteers are asked to take part in a clinical trial” (American Physiological Society, 2019). This is where we see if the drug or product is fit for humans, when testing in humans not in animals. I leave you to ask and answer for yourself two questions. If a drug or product passed animal testing, why wouldn’t it pass human trials if we are so biologically related? Why does 92% of trials fail human trials after passing animal testing?
References
Akhtar A. (2015). The flaws and human harms of animal experimentation. Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees, 24(4), 407–419. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963180115000079
American Physiological Society. (2019). Why do Scientist use animals in research?https://www.physiology.org/career/policy-advocacy/animal-research/Why-do-scientists-use-animals-in-research?SSO=Y
Stengelin, Thiele, J., & Seiffert, S. (2022). Multiparametric Material Functionality of Microtissue‐Based In Vitro Models as Alternatives to Animal Testing. Advanced Science, 9(10), e2105319–n/a. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202105319
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World Health Organization. (2022). National bridging workshop. https://extranet.who.int/sph/ihr-pvs-bridging-workshop
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