Nowadays, many people think that it would be better to test new medicines on animals is important, whereas some of them opposes this idea. I believe it is essential to test newly develop medicines on animals to ensure the human safety.
On the one hand, most of the pharmaceutical companies check the authenticity of their newly developed drugs on laboratory animals, as it is very crucial to check the desired results from the medicines. Nonetheless, the most companies like Abbot, Pharmaco, and others take a permit from the international animal welfare societies. Furthermore, according to estimates, these societies only allow one to two permit like these annually. According to the latest report of Nat Geo states, World Health Organization (WHO) allow only few of the international pharmaceutical companies to test drug on animals especially laboratory rats and rabbits.
On the other hand, the testing of newly develop drug on animals is always not important, because if the drugs are made up of natural herbs, then it is not necessary to always check the results on animals, as natural herbs don’t harm humans; also, now many international companies are shifted to making medicines from naturals materials instead of chemicals that are harmful to both humans and animals. According to the New Scientist 2022 report, stated that many drug companies were diverted from making medicines from chemicals to natural material. Also, from this change, the use of animals as a test subject to plunge to 80%.
In conclusion, most of the individual have an opinion that it is necessary to use animals as a test subject for acquiring the desire results from the medicines; nonetheless, there are also some people who believe it is animal cruelty. I thought that is crucial to verify the effectiveness of drug by testing it on animals just like polio vaccine.
