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  • Devarshi Joshi replied to the topic Ethics of Animal Testing in the forum Pre-clinical Device Development 6 years, 7 months ago

    In my views animal testing is unethical but we can also say that technology can’t give us final results we have to depend on animal testing. Though Necessity does not mean it is ethical. During animal testing numerous animals are killed and other who stay alive live their life in captivity. Even sometimes some tests are done that won’t be practically used or are no benefit to humans, so they gave their life in vain. Even if we think practically animal testing is really expensive. It occurs more than once over the years o the costs adds on. Lastly there is also a point that reaction of drug in animals is different sometimes than humans. So the drugs won’t react the same way in natural environment further weakens the point of animal testing.

    If we talk about the alternative way, this alternate methods does not stimulate humans in the same way. Researchers do not recognise the limitation but it is thought that animals are the closest match to humans so according to me for there is no alternative way.