Acknowledgement+of+Pros

The use of animals in experimental testing has been debated about ever since it started. One of the main arguments for animal testing being beneficial is because they think that if we couldn't use animals, then we would have to test new drugs on people. Animal testing is not reliable enough to say that testing drugs on animals will make it safe for humans. New drugs always have problems.(Debate 12) Another reason that people think that animal testing should not stop is because they have used animals for hundreds of years. "Physicians used to bleed sick people and apply leeches to them, too, no matter what ailed them" (Debate 9). Obviously, this did not work, and even left hundreds of people dead. So, even though we have been doing this for hundreds of years, it doesn't make it good. One last reason that people think that animal testing should continue is that they think that animals are of inferior intellect, and don't deserve rights. Therefore, sacrificing 1.000 or even 100,000 animals to help one kid, is worth it. (Debate 15) But is it right to experiment on a mentally retarted person if it will benefit 1,000 other children? No. That never happens. If we continue to test on animals, it is like saying that we should test on the mentally retarted and infants, who are also of inferior intellect. We should stop testing products on animals.