Can the use of animals in medical research ever be justified?

Mainstream medical and scientific organizations around the world believe that animals are important in scientific research and drug development. The use of animals in research has never been easier. All animal research projects must be approved by all physicians and veterinarians, and inspectors of the Ministry of Home Office of the Regional Ethics Review Committee. Medical research funding organizations, including charitable organizations, fund only high quality relevant research. No one wants to use animals for their research, and no one uses unnecessarily or unnecessarily animals. Animal research is the last means used in combination with other kinds of research

Last month, we saw an exciting study report in an important field, including the use of a mouse to show how the heart can repair itself. Studies with rats showed that "memory switch" can help Alzheimer's disease patients. A new approach to cancer vaccines successfully treated prostate tumors in mice

Without animal experiments, it is difficult to know how these advances are achieved. Still, there are still diseases that are inadequately treated, such as Alzheimer's disease, many cancers and heart failure. We use new technologies wherever possible, but animals are essential for advancing medical science.

The UK conducted more than 6 million animal experiments in 2009, but less than 20% of the studies directly tested the treatment of serious human diseases. In addition to ethics, there are convincing scientific reasons why you should quit this practice.

The argument that animal experiments have treated or treated all human diseases is convincing, but scientific evidence to support them is rare. When scientists review the effectiveness of animal experiments over time, the results are terrible. A review of 76 major animal research papers concluded that "patients and physicians should carefully extrapolate outstanding animal studies to treat human diseases."

It is the time to go next. We are testing the safety of more complex biological targeted drugs using animal experiments developed in the 1940's. The difference in species at these levels makes (and risks) the use of animals more difficult. This has never been more obvious than in the monoclonal drug test disaster, which failed to predict the dramatic impact on human test volunteers in a monkey test 500 times the standard dose. Aborting an animal experiment does not mean stopping medical progress. Looking to modern humanization research will improve the quality and human nature of our science

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In summary, RDS believes that the use of animals in research can be rational morally and ethically. The benefits of animal research are enormous, and if it is abandoned it will have a serious impact on public health and medical research. However, the use of 3R is important to constantly reduce the number and suffering of animals in the study. In addition, the UK's excellent regulatory system will help to further reduce the number of animals used. Therefore, we support a sound and ongoing discussion on the use of animals in the study. We recognize that people opposed to animal experiments should freely disseminate opinions democratically and we are looking forward to a constructive discussion with organizations that share an intermediate position with us.

Animal rights organizations are trying to distort facts concerning animal experiments. They refused to recognize the important contribution of this research and believed that research using animals was not reasonable. They argue that the medical community no longer supports cooperation with animals in research. There will be nothing far from the truth. The American Medical Association has several current policies that strongly support the support of all agencies and research institutions on the humanitarian needs of animals in biomedical research (American Medical Association).

Regardless of profit, animal rights activists want to ban animals for medical research. To understand the impact of this position, according to the Biomedical Research Foundation, "Animal research has played an important role for human and veterinary health in nearly every major medical progress of the last century I think. Almost all prevention, treatment, curing and management of diseases, pain and pain are based on experiments and experiments from antibiotics to transfusion, dialysis to organ transplantation, vaccination to chemotherapy, bypass surgery, joint replacement surgery. The animals study together. "This did not impress the rights activists of animals, according to PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk," Even if animal experiments can treat AIDS, we will oppose it. "