动物实验利与弊

动物实验利与弊

论点1:（正方）不人道First of all,the main disadvantage of animal testing is the inhumane treatment of animals in tests due to the fact that anesthesia for the help of pain is often not used. Scie ntists say that using an esthesia will in terfere with test results. Today the term “ vivisectio n ” is used. Vivisectio n is defi ned as while still alive ” but it is more com mon ly used today as any harmful experime nt

or test that is performed on an animal. Animal experimentation invoIves the incarceration of animals and poisoning, mutilation, disease and killing of those in dividuals. It is arguably the most brutal and most severe form of viole nee in the modern world. It is said that an estimated 50,000 animals die due to the testing on them. Some of the tests that IAMS performed were:

- 28 female cats had their abdomens （腹部）cut open and solution injected repeatedly into their bowels.

* 24 young dogs were give n kid ney failure by the removal of one kid ney and the damaging of the other. All the dogs were killed after being fed an experime ntal diet and their kidn eys an alyzed.

论点2：（正方）可有别的措施Many alter natives already exist, and there must be many more which are wait ing to be found. The day will surely come whe n not more experime nts on ani mals will n eed to be done for huma n medic in e. it's hared to say there will always be alter natives for veteri nary research, The most com mon alter natives that are used today are : in-vitro tests, computer software,

and eve n huma n cli nical tests .The use of ani mal cells, orga ns, and tissue cultures are also deemed as alter natives,

（反驳正方）however animal lives are still sacrificed for the

use of their parts. We can only talk about banning experimentation when the alter natives have bee n proved to be accurate, and safe.

—（反方反驳） As a medical student, I've realized that

artificial mean s can n ever replace the in credible complexity of livi ng ani mals. It may

not be possible to ban all ani mal tests quite yet, but there should be a lot more mon ey,

time and efforts going into finding alter natives.

新论点3:正方：动物也有权利Could anyone tell me why humans are more importa nt tha

n any other ani mals? Could anyone please tell me the fun dame ntal reason why human suffering is 'absolutely' more important than animal suffering, why the intense agony experieneed by a laboratory animal is inconsequential （不重要的，微不足道的）when

view against the same or even

lesser degree of suffer ing within a huma n. Of course We see ourselves as more importa

nt tha n other species, as rm sure other self-realisi ng species see themselves, but we cannot use this flimsy（轻而薄的）,subjective （主观上的）argume nt as an excuse to totally disregard the feeli ngs of other species. You would n't like it if some alie n race

claimi ng to be the most "importa nt" turned up and squirted alien cosmetics in your

mother's eye, would you? So I think animals