Animal Testing is a Necessity!
     A little boy is born with the major pumping chamber of his heart missing (left ventricle).  His life was saved by a series of new techniques first developed on animals.  Animal research will be involved in the search for a cure for the most deadly diseases.  So when presented with this story what would you choose, animal or human?  If given the chose, how many of us would choose the lives of 100 lab rats over one human?  No more people should suffer or die because of some animal rights activist.
     Those people that are for animal testing believe that animal testing is a practice that all people can’t do without.  They believe that animal testing is the only way to determine cures and vaccines.
     The history of the benefits of animal research is marked by dramatic breakthroughs.  Working with animals in research is vital to continued medical practice.  But what would happen if we didn’t have animal research?  Here are a few facts that help
to prove that animal research is important to human beings.
 Polio would kill or cripple thousands of unvaccinated children and adults this
       year.
 Most of the nation’s one million insulin-dependent diabetics wouldn’t be insulin
      dependent, they would be dead.
 60 million Americans would risk death from heart attack, stroke or kidney failure
      from lack of medication to control their high blood pressure.

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This page was made by Stacy Kohle, a student at Wayne State College, on April 20, 1999.  If you have any questions or comments e-mail me at stkohl02@willy.wsc.edu.