The medicines you take have been tested on animals. It could save your life and even save the lives of animals. Are you for or against animal testing? animal testing? Animal testing is a term that most people have heard but may not yet know exactly what it entails. Animal research refers to experiments carried out on animals. It is used to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of medications and understand how the human body works (“Murnaghan”). “The use of animals in scientific research continues to play a vital role in improving health care and the environment. Opportunities offered by scientific advances are used to replace or reduce the use of animals and to refine procedures to minimize suffering. (“Understanding Animal Research”). Animal testing is a controversial topic. Because those who support animal testing can define it as experimentation using animals for the benefit of humans, where it saves lives and provides life-saving medical treatments. ("Murnaghan") Animal research has led to treatments for cancer, antibiotics for infections, vaccines to prevent some of the deadliest and most debilitating viruses, and surgical interventions for injuries, illnesses and diseases. malformations. (“Do something”) Despite many protesting against animal testing, the benefits of animal testing in human medicine outweigh any animal suffering that may occur. “Without animals, we might not have benefited from the advances that gave us the antibiotics, vaccines and anesthetics that we now take for granted. Blood transfusions might never have been developed. It is difficult to imagine how we could control diabetes, asthma and high blood pressure, which would cause more suffering and cost more lives. We still need the animal...... middle of paper...... and in what quantity, this was to measure its ability to lower blood sugar in rabbits. Since insulin overdose is fatal. These extracts were first used in dogs and then in patients in 1922. The development of insulin provided the first treatment for what had been a fatal disease. It's not a cure, but it has kept millions of people alive since its discovery. (“Speaking of research”) Has your opinion changed during this reading? Animal testing of the benefits of medicine raises doubts and complications, but it changes the lives of humans and animals. Most of our medicines are tested on animals and administered to humans; once they see that the medicine is safe and not harmful. Animals are bred specifically for testing and research. Our DNA is similar to that of other animals and may be easier to test safely and we can be more assured when using products and/or medications..