Animal Testing:

Is it Justified?
Why animal testing is necessary:

• Contribute to life saving cures

and treatments.
• Genetic makeup is similar to that
of humans.
• Animals themselves benefit from
testing: Medical breakthroughs
in the last 100 years has resulted
directly from research using
animals(C.B.R.A)
 Repercussions of animal testing
• Unethical: in 2010 that 97,123 • It is very expensive.
animals suffered pain during • Animal lives wasted.
experiments while being given no
anesthesia(USDA).
• Drugs overlooked due to failure in
animal testing (e.g Aspirin).
 Alternatives to Animal Testing
In Vitro Testing: Computer Modeling:
• Uses human cells rather than • Computers simulate human
animals. biology.
• It replicates human physiology • Can predict the way a particular
far better than animals. drug will act within the human
• Drugs produced more effective. body.