Animal testing just doesn’t deliver results.
Peter Singer, in Animal Liberation and other volumes he has penned on the topic of animals, reveals that medical advancement through animal testing does not deliver, despite scientists continues insisting that without vivisection, medical breakthroughs would not be possible. In fact, a vast majority of testing on animals done at universities across the globe are repeats of previous experiments in order to earn research grants and write papers on a respective scientists field.
But it is hard to convince the public that testing on animals doesn’t have its benefits. Too often people argue that without animal testing we would not have the advancements in medicine and scientific knowledge to benefit humans. In fact, this fails to note that had penicillin been tested on monkeys it would have failed to keep the monkey alive and we would not have had this groundbreaking medicine today.
On top of this, no animal – unlike human test subjects – have signed a release form allowing their bodies to be traumatized and tortured for human benefit. Animal care aside, vivisection has proven to be among the least effective methods of scientific and medical discovery in modern times.
Researchers from Harvard and Boston Universities concluded that medical measures (drugs and vaccines) accounted for between 1 and 3.5% of the total decline in mortality rates since 1900. Scores of animals were killed in the quest to find cures for tuberculosis, scarlet fever, smallpox and diphtheria, among others, but was their unwilling contribution important to the decline of these diseases? Dr. Edward Kass of Harvard Medical School, asserts that the “primary credit for the virtual eradication of these diseases must go to improvements in public health, sanitation and the general improvement in the standard of living.” These benefits have nothing to do with animal studies.
We can do better and universities like Johns Hopkins have been ardent in their struggle to employ alternatives to the cruel practice of mutilating and slaughtering animals in the name of science. In today’s world, we no longer need – the statistics prove this – to have animals on the chopping block for human development. Scientists can use alternatives and it is time for the world to say enough is enough.
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