Objectively, medicine has saved millions of lives and we usually turn a blind-eye to what’s going on behind the curtains. But what happens behind the scenes is what fuels a heated debate: animal testing. The usage of animal lives has always been a controversial topic for decades; debating whether or not if it’s beneficial for mankind. The foundation for these medicinal advances, the savior of millions of lives, is research. Animal testing is beneficial to the welfare of mankind as of currently and for the future.

The past century has proven time after time how helpful animal testing is, creating treatments and cures for all types of diseases. Because of these types of researching being conducted a number of treatments has been produced for: penicillin, tuberculosis, asthma, Parkinson’s disease, blood transfusion, and a handful more. “Doctors would have no chemotherapy to save the 70 percent of children who now survive acute lymphocytic leukemia”– SNPRC Organization. Without the research leading up till today, diabetes would be at a more severe level than it is currently. Aspirin, Tylenol, and Advil, the pills people use worldwide wouldn’t be as advanced as it is today. It’s no mystery at this point that animal testing is useful, no matter how you look at it.

Animal testing contributes to our everyday lives in some shape or form. Makeup is especially popular nowadays, and it comes directly off of testing it on mice. Perfumes are crucial to some people in their daily lives, and without the proper research, they may’ve become toxic for our skins. But they’re not, they’re near harmless to our skin thanks to the research we’ve funneled into these testings. Ironically, even the food we feed to our pets were related too, to even test their appetite and how chemicals affect their bodies. Most well-known house-cleaning products have been improved or created and that’s all thanks to our research. There’s not a single doubt that our lives aren’t affected one way or another due to these type of research.

Many would argue that we shouldn’t use animals but this method is the most ethical way of experimenting because for obvious reasons, we can’t use humans. Mice prove to have a 98% relation to human DNA. One would suggest using “Vitro” testing instead, the use of human cells. The reason we haven’t converged towards that path is because most medical testing doesn’t just affect the outer layer, it mostly affects our internal layer, our organs. Others would argue that some of these tests aren’t beneficial because of contradicting results, as they only worked positively for animals but negatively for humans. While that is true, some tests have resulted in a failure, but that’s only natural because this isn’t perfect and each day, scientists are working to polish it.