n one such study, the drug milrinone was found to increase the survival of rats with artificially induced heart failure; however, when given to humans with severe chronic heart failure, there was a 30 percent increase in mortality. Some studies have even proven to be completely ineffective to humans, such as one study done on cancer. Rats have been injected with carcinogens for years while scientists attempt to find a cure. Yet the human cancer rate gets higher and higher every decade. This is mainly due to the physiological differences among every species; a cat is different from a dog, which is different from a horse, which is different from a rat, etc. Scientists will never receive truly accurate results from performing chemical testing unless the tests are performed upon humans. This is something that can never and will never change.By performing chemical testing on animals, humans are not only demeaning the morality and values that we pride ourselves on but also quite possible creating many more extinct species. Humans are animals too; although certainly more “advanced,” what makes us any more favorable than the other species? As it stands now, if animal testing is continued, our ecological system as we know it will be destroyed even further than what it is now. Eliminating animal testing is the first step in saving our ecology, and perhaps our future. ...
