Writing Practice: Animal Testing

People often hold different views about doing experiments on animals. While some are strongly against this practice, I personally feel that such experiments are indeed necessary on certain occasions.

The main argument against animal experiment is that the practice is seen as being immoral to animals due to its extreme cruelty. In many of these experiments, little animals, such as rabbits and rats, are being tortured when they are still alive. They may be suffering from acute pain triggered by some medicines to test the products’ effectiveness or potential risks, and they may be deliberately deprived of food or placed in physically damaging conditions to make comparisons with the control groups.
All these acts afflict harm animals and it is inhumane to abuse them to such an abhorrent degree just because of the needs from of mankind.

However, I feel that animal experimentation is a necessary evil under certain circumstances. I do not support the use of such experiments in cosmetic industries where there is clearly a better alternative to mistreating animals. Yet I believe using animals in medical tests is acceptable.
Without animals, drug manufacturers would have to rely on volunteers to test medicines, and some new drugs may never have a chance to be launched and help to cure patients if there are not enough volunteers.
In my opinion, this would have a more devastating effect than abusing animals, as thousands of lives, both human beings and animals, could be lost just because a new drug cannot be used before it is tested to be safe. Admittedly, animal testing is not the best resolution solution, but it is a worthwhile price to pay considering its benefit of being a live-saving life-saving tool.

In conclusion, I am in favor of animal testing on occasions that concern the well-being of a larger group.