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. Scientists say that

using anesthesia will interfere with test results. Today the term “vivisection” is used. Vivisection is defined as “cutting while st but it is more commonly used today as any harmful experiment or

test that is performed on an animal. Animal experimentation involves

the incarceration of animals and poisoning, mutilation, disease and

killing of those individuals. It is arguably the most brutal and most

severe form of violence 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 given kidney failure by the removal of one

kidney and the damaging of the other. All the dogs were killed

after being fed an experimental diet and their kidneys analyzed.

论点2：（正方）可有别的措施Many alternatives already exist, and there

must be many more which are waiting to be found.The day will

surely come when not more experiments on animals will need to be

done for human medicine. it's hared to say there will always be

alternatives for veterinary research, The most common alternatives

that are used today are: in-vitro tests, computer software, and even

human “clinical tests”. The use of animal cells, organs, and tissue cultures are also deemed as alternatives,

（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 alternatives have been proved to be accurate, and safe.

→（反方反驳）As a medical student, I've realized that artificial means can never replace the incredible

complexity of living animals. It may not be possible to ban all animal

tests quite yet, but there should be a lot more money, time and

efforts going into finding alternatives.

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

more important than any other animals? Could anyone please tell me

the fundamental reason why human suffering is 'absolutely' more

important than animal suffering, why the intense agony experienced

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 suffering within

a human. Of course We see ourselves as more important than other species, as I'm sure other self-realising species see themselves, but we cannot use this flimsy(轻而薄的), subjective（主观上的）argument as an excuse to totally disregard the feelings of other species. You wouldn't like it if some alien race claiming to be the most "important" turned up and squirted alien cosmetics in your mother's eye, would you? So I think animals should have the same rights as us. You wouldn't like it if people were doing any kind of experiment on you. Humankind has absolutely no right to use animals for any reason whatsoever, especially for experimental use.

新论点4正方类比种族We conduct such experiments simply because we have physical dominance over all other species and thus we can exploit them at our will. But then where lies the contradiction

between this form exploitation and that shown within the human species, such as the physical dominance that allowed Europeans to exploit Africans in the slave trade. Why should I be utterly indifferent to animal suffering because I stand to gain from it, yet I am morally obliged to be passionate about human suffering whether or not it could be for my personal betterment.