Animal Research For the past 20 years, there has a been an on going heated debate on whether experiments on animals for the benefit of medical and scientific research is ethical. Whether it is or isn't, most people believe that some form of cost-benefit test should be performed to determine if the action is right. The costs include: animal pain, distress and death where the benefits include the collection of new knowledge or the development of …showed first 75 words of 1134 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1134 total…to decide whether it should go on? I feel that animals were put on this earth for many reasons. One of those reasons may be for the research of medical experimentation and because the human race chose to take this idea in perspective, millions of people's lives have been saved. But that doesn't mean that if scientists hadn't started experimenting on animals that they wouldn't have found another way more superior to solve these problems.