animal experimentation
...egetable protein from the jack of bean mimics the reaction of the cornea to an alien substance. Skintex is an in-vitro method to measure skin irritancy that uses a pumpkin rind to mimic the reaction of a foreign substance to human skin. EpiPack uses cloned human tissue to test potentially harmful substances. Neutral Red Bioassay was developed at Rockefeller University and promoted by clonetics; the neutral red bioassay is cultured human cells that are used to compute the absorption of water-soluble dye to measure relative toxicity. Topkat is a computer software program that measures toxicity, mutagencity, carcinogenicity, and teraronogenicity. Ames test is for carinogenicity by mixing a test culture with salmonella and adding activating enzymes. These are only a few of the most successful alternatives. Alternatives are a lot cheaper than animal testing. Animal testing is very expensive. It cost the American public over 136 billion dollars annually. It cost the average family over 300 dollars a year. Alternatives however don’t even cost a ¼ of that. Alternatives not only are a lot cheaper, they also produce far better results. Drugs that pass animal tests end up being harmful 61% of the time. Opren, a cough medicine tested successfully on monkeys, killed 61 people and caused severe reactions in others. Animal testing does a lot more harm than good. Another disadvantage to animal testing is the all the differences between humans and animals. One difference between the both of them is their bodies. The human body is will react completely different than the way an animals’ body will react to the same substance. Humans and animals are different in many ways. They are different physiologically, metabolically, genetically, and psychologically. Because of the difference in their bodies, this causes them to react different to the same thing. The difference between humans and animals also cause many bad test results. Many drugs approved for human use that was based on animal studies have been taken off the market at a later date because of side effects that was not revealed in the animal study. Many patients who were administered the general anesthetic Methoxyflurane lost function of their kidneys because animal test failed to reveal possible kidney toxicity. Because of the bad testing results, animal testing proves to be a waste of time. A lot of animals are dying for no reason. If there is such a difference between humans and animals, then the test results will not reveal the possible dangers of a drug. This causes animal testing to be a waste of time. Finally, animal testing is very inhumane to a...