Mariette Devereux - Vivisection (animal testing)

Don’t you just love the scratching of the rodents in the walls? No, no one does so why is it different when we want to use them to save our lives? Yes I’m talking about animal testing?

Human beings are the most valuable and important forms of life on earth. Nothing is worse than the suffering of a human being, nothing at all. I agree with animal testing because what have we got to lose if for every 10 rats that die 10,000 human lives are saved?

Without animal testing we wouldn’t have been able to cure many diseases that we now are lucky enough to found antidotes for. Here is just a small selection of the major medical breakthroughs made possible by animal testing:

·         Asthma

·         Meningitis

·         Parkinson’s disease

·         Penicillin

·         Blood transfusion

·         Tuberculosis

·         Insulin

Not only human benefit comes from animal testing but there have some benefits for animals also for example heartworm which has saved many dogs lives.

Animal testing is the most accurate way to ensure the safety of drugs and medicines. Our scientific knowledge about medicine has improved a lot because of animal testing.

I’m going to conclude by saying that I am an animal lover, animal rights activists are doing good by doing what they think is right and trying to protect animals but really tell honestly do you value a rats life over your own?