Arguments for animal testing

Practical arguments

• Animal testing has helped to develop vaccines against diseases like rabies, polio, measles, mumps, rubella and TB.

• Antibiotics, HIV drugs, insulin and cancer treatments rely on animal tests. Other testing methods aren't advanced enough.

• Scientists claim there are no differences in lab animals and humans that cannot be factored into tests.

• Operations on animals helped to develop organ transplant and open-heart surgery techniques

Moral arguments

• Human life has greater intrinsic value than animal life.

• Legislation protects all lab animals from cruelty or mistreatment.

• Millions of animals are killed for food every year - if anything, medical research is a more worthy death.

• Few animals feel any pain as they are killed before they have the chance to suffer.