Humans have been using animals, since the beginning of time. Generation after generation, we eat them, play with them, and wear their skins. Though as time pass, animals have been taken for granted. Millions of wild and domestic animals are used in research such as dogs, cats, rats, guinea pigs, monkeys, and others. They are given some protection, under the Federal Animals Welfare Act. However, in many experiments, pain and suffering does occur and their rights are clearly violated. Although researchers have depended on animal test data to achieve medical advances, there should be other means of research because testing on animals is cruel, inhumane, and often unnecessary. In other words, I declare that we should give animals basic legal rights to protect them from being mistreated. .
No one takes pleasure in the sacrifice of animal lives. The American Medical Association (AMA) believes that research-involving animals are absolutely essential to maintaining and improving the health of the American people. They pointed out, that virtually every advance in medical science in the 20th century has been accomplished either directly or indirectly through the use of animals in laboratory experiments. They also stress that animal research holds the key for answers to AIDS, cancer, heart disease, aging and inherited defects. Without animals to help us in these researches, we would not have most of the drugs, vaccines and medical treatments. However, some people, called anti-vivisectionists, say that we should allow no experiments on animals, while vivisectionists believe that we can do whatever we like to animals. I think they are both wrong. We can learn a lot from treating animals that are already sick or injured in testing new life-saving drugs and surgical method. Both animals, as well as people benefit from new discoveries. .
However, do we have the right to continue doing experiments over and over again in a needless repetition if no new information is going to be gained? Each year in the United States an estimated 20-70 million animals from cats, dogs and primates, to rabbits, rats and mice suffer and die in the name of research.
