What are 10 arguments FOR vivisection (animal testing), and 2 or 3 AGAINST it?
Practical arguments * Animal testing has helped to develop vaccines against diseases like rabies, polio, measles, mumps, rubella and TB. * Antibiotics, HIV drugs, insulin and cancer treatments rely on animal tests. Other testing methods aren’t advanced enough. * Scientists claim there are no differences in lab animals and humans that cannot be factored into tests. * Operations on animals helped to develop organ transplant and open-heart surgery techniques Moral arguments * Human life has greater intrinsic value than animal life. * Legislation protects all lab animals from cruelty or mistreatment. * Millions of animals are killed for food every year – if anything, medical research is a more worthy death. * Few animals feel any pain as they are killed before they have the chance to suffer.
