cture (Wil 67). Animal experimentation has many benefits to it and barely any down sides. When one is found it can easily be disproven. Four good reasons to keep animal testing that I will discuss is that animal experimentation benefits humans, animal experimentation is entirely ethical and natural, animal experimentation is humane, and animal rights activists tend to exaggerate and will stop or slow progress. Animal experimentation benefits humans in many ways. It is safe to say that almost every modern medical therapy (fully or in part) has come about due to animal research (Day 86). In fact, many people have been saved from catastrophic illnesses because we are privileged to use animals for testing (Wil 49). In the past, many discoveries in technologies and medical breakthroughs have saved millions of lives, and still do to this day. A short list of what has been discovered by animal experimentation include organ transplants, most surgical procedures, heart drugs, cancer drugs, insulin, antibiotics, anesthetics, vaccines, and CAT Scans (Day 73). Other ailments that are now treatable and curable are appendicitis, diabetes, scarlet fever, and diphtheria (Wil 77). Diseases like smallpox and polio have been virtually wiped out because vaccines have been discovered through research on animals (52). Due to animal research, the number of cases of polio went from 52,000 in 1952 to four in 1984 in the U.S. alone (Wil 77). In fact, Nancy Day, author of the book Animal Experimentation: Cruelty or Science? claims that Without animal research, millions of cancer patients around the world would be subjected to unnecessary suffering and early death (Day 82). Every day, numerous heart transplants are given to small children and adults. The only reason man is able to perform these vital operations is because dogs, who are the closest model to humans for this type of procedure at this time, were used for experimentation. By using the c...
