User talk:AnimalsAreIncluded

Hello, I'm Serenity C.

Although I am only a middle schooler(going into highschool soon), I have a deep interest in animal rights and experimentation.

I believe that it is hard to join a pro or con group because they both have good causes. I am neutral, I don't agree with using animals as laboratory pets to test drugs. I think that it is wrong, but then again, without animal experimentation, all of us could be dead from some disease. Point is, we have animal experimentation for a good reason, but people also don't like hurting the animals.

To start off, we all know animals have certain 'rights'. When scientists test drugs on animals, they are aware of the 3R's

1. Replacement 2. Reduction 3. Refinement

Replacement refers to situations in which non-animals techniques may be substituted for techniques using research animals. An example is using mice to test potency of yellow fever vaccine, which was replaced by a cell culture test.

Reduction refers to cases where the number of animals required for a particular activity or project can be reduced. We can all agree that we don't need 100 rodents to test a dose of drugs when all you need is 10, maybe 20.

And lastly, Refinement refers to the modification of a technique to reduce the pain and distress experienced by research animals. If they can take a dose of something to help with the pain, or even put them to sleep for a little, while they try the new drug on them without interfering with the new drug, they shall' do it.

I haven't worked in an experiment lab with animals, I am not the animal, I don't have experience in medicine school, but I do know that animals are suffering when they shouldn't be. I do know, that if I were them right now, I would rather die. Animals most definitely should have rights of their own, not just protection, but what would happen to us? Would we fail at making new drugs? Would we use other people? This is the problem! Nobody trusts technology enough to create a online testing system, no one wants to try a simulator. Technology is just coming around, 2019 our generation is being made around technology! Maybe, just maybe in the future we can trust it enough without drugs and tests, but right now, animals are our only choice. Even scientist who don't want to harm animals with testing will spend years trying to find ways with technology, but they said that it would be impossible.

TO BE CONTINUED(not done yet, but I will edit as I go. Pls don't change it even tho it lets u, I think that this is an important topic so don't be funny and type stupid stuff. If you would like to add to my points, I would be glad for you to :) )