Animal Testing - Necessary or Barbaric and Wrong? - Discursive Essay.

Animal testing has for a long time been a much debated moral issue. For many, this kind of testing has been the only kind of hope for developing new medicines and treatments for illness. For others, it is an unacceptable and unnecessary cruel way of exploiting animals for our own purposes. Treatments for illnesses such as tuberculosis, diabetes, kidney failure and asthma have all been discovered, and vaccinations against polio, diphtheria, tetanus and measles for …

…it is wrong to kill some of these creatures for the good of mankind would make them a hypocrite. Animal testing is one of those things that shouldn't happen, but the benefits outweigh the bad points. So, in my opinion, animal testing is not wrong, given the correct circumstances. As far as medical science it is acceptable, but it is totally wrong and unethical as far as the vanity of the human race is concerned.