0;Over the past century, animal research has helped to increase our life span by nearly 28 years,” states Americans for Medical Progress Educational Foundation (1). Not only are we living longer we are also more healthier. Many people would die a lot younger without these tests and experimentation’s.In addition, animal testing has proven to be very beneficial to new surgical procedures. Moreover, to the use of lasers and other useful devices. For example, “Without animal research more than one million Americans would lose vision in at least one eye this year because cataract surgery would be impossible,” says AMPEF (2). If that many people had lost their vision, the world would be very different. Furthermore, “Without animal testing Surgery of any type would be a painful, rare procedure without the development of modern anesthesia allowing artificially included unconsciousness or local or general insensitivity to pain,” says AMPEF (2). Would you want to go into any surgery that would be excruciatingly painful? Finally, if scientists did not experiment on animals they would lose a lot of crucial time in being able to treat their patient. This would make the process of finding how to treat the disease and curing it much longer. For example, if scientists would have experimented with cancer and AIDS on humans a tremendous number of people would have died and we probably would not have come as far as we have. “History has shown that animal research is an essential component of most medical breakthroughs” (AMPEF 1). This shows that we would not have breakthroughs as quickly as do if we did not test on animals. In addition, “7,500 newborns who contract jaundice each year would develop cerebral palsy, now preventable through phototherapy” (AMPEF 2). Phototherapy probably would not be available for these babies if we did not experiment on animals because of the time it would take anoth...
