Rights are a common topic these days, and the discussion encompasses not just humans’ rights but those of animals as well. This has become a major issue across many industries, particularly in pharmaceutics. For years now, pharmaceutical companies and laboratories have been using animals such as rats, dogs, and guinea pigs to test their products, a practice that has caused quite an uproar especially from animal rights advocates.
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Ironically, ethics is cited as one of the primary reasons for why animals are used in laboratories. Human testing is considered taboo in practically any territory worldwide. On the other hand, companies cannot release products without being sure of how they affect their potential users. For this reason, they turn to other mammals which, theoretically, would react to a drug or substance the same way that humans would. Animals are used as humanity’s proxy in the creation of medicines that do not have adverse effects on the human body.
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For animal rights advocates, animal testing is an act of cruelty to animals. The argument is that these animals are not biologically far from human beings, and should be treated with as much dignity and respect as is afforded to any man or woman. Additionally, advocates forward the prevalence of animal abuse across many laboratories worldwide. Some organizations for animal rights are suggesting that laboratories use cells cultured from human bodies in testing pharmaceutical products.
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Medicine has come a long way, and will no doubt go further as technology and research advance. The argument will continue until a compromise is reached.
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