Animal Experimentation

Introduction Animal Experimentation is when scientific researchers use animals in biomedical and veterinary research aimed at understanding diseases, developing new medicines, testing the safety of chemicals, improving the health of other animals and improving human health. It has been part of biomedical and behavioural research for several centuries (millennia); experiments with animals were conducted in Greece over two thousand years ago. Animal tests are carried out to see if a potential product produces any serious …

…cancer in any animals that were tested. Drugs approved for children were twice as likely to have serious risks as other medications. Experiments carried out on animals sometimes have the same reactions to a disease or drug as humans do; usually the animals experience different effects. There is also no way for scientists to notice psychological effects in the animals and the animals can't tell the experimenters how they feel and what they are experiencing.