Should animals be used for medical research?

A lot of medicines have been produced after the successful test on animals. If the animals will not exist for testing, we would be testing in humans and killings unnecessarily. Animals nowadays play an important role in medical research; however there are many arguments about whether animals should be used for medical research or not. Some people agree with the idea that animals should be used for medical research, while others oppose with this idea.

            The opponents claim that animals should have the same right as humans; there should not be any experiment for medical research on animals for the use of humans. It seems unfair for them to be used or killed for the beneficial of humans since they have lives like human and can get suffer the same as humans do when something hurt them.  Animals have senses and they can feel pain; it is really distressing that animals are inflicted pain and suffering in such a brutal way (Greathub, 2009, internet). On the other hand, the supporters suggest that human beings are more important than animals. If we do not use animals for testing, there is no other alternative ways rather than test on humans ourselves. Without our animal counterparts in research, we would all be at a loss (Alicia, 2007, internet). It would kill millions of people if the medical experiment is on human. As a matter of fact, lots of animals have been killed every day during the medical testing procedure.

            There are also those who claim that animal models cannot predict human response. Some of the medicines have been found and work effectively on animals; however, when it comes to be tested on humans, it failed. Therefore, a lot of animals died during this failure research are useless. On contrary, scientists argue that they do not kill lots of animals for every experiment and some of the experiments also cause no death of the animals as well. According to Melissa scientists do not blindly squander the lives of more animals if suitable models do not exist (Melissa, 2007, internet). However, animals would be invaluable resource for researchers if the experiment works successfully on humans.

            In conclusion, the usage of animals for medical research is still on the way nowadays. It is unlikely for scientists now to find any other objects to do experiment on, except humans ourselves. I support with the idea to use animals for medical research as I could see that animals and people get the same illnesses and most of the medicines we use now are very effective and safety because of the successful experiment on animals before those medicines have right to produce.