Recently, there have been protests and demonstration here on our campus, as well as at many other places, about medical research performed on animals―what is sometimes called vivisection. It is natural that people are concerned about the ethical treatment of animals. However, most of us agree that our top priority must be the reduction of human suffering.
Of course, it is possible, and absolutely necessary, to keep animal suffering to a minimum. Animal researchers use anesthesia whenever possible to reduce pain and keep their animals clean, comfortable, and healthy. It is possible to conduct experiments using animals without inflicting cruelty on animals.
The problem is, there simply is no good substitute for animal experimentation. Other techniques can be used to test drugs, but none is as effective as testing them on animals. Humans and chimpanzees share about 99% of their genes. Other animals also share the same basic life functions as humans, and the reactions of these animals to drugs are a good guide to the reactions of human patients. The usefulness of animal testing has been shown over and over. For example, the very basis of modern medicine, the germ theory―the idea that diseases are caused by micro-organisms―was proven by the great French scientist Louis Pasteur by experimenting on chickens and pigs and other farm animals. The effectiveness of penicillin was tested on rabbits and mice, and insulin, which is used to treat diabetes, was tested on dogs. Animal testing remains a crucial tool today. It is simply immoral to risk the lives of humans when a drug or procedure can be tested on non-humans.
The Passage discusses about the ethical issues associated with vivisection that is medical research on animals for human diseases. The author of the reading passage is supportive of the fact that reduction in human suffering is the main motto , and so the animals should be used for testing new drugs rather than testing them directly on the humans. But the professor considers this act as unethical since without his consent, no living beings ‘s life can be put at risk.
The author says that there is no technique to replace animal testing. Since animals and humans have same functioning of t...
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Sentence: The author is supportive of the argument that it is unethical to risk human lives when animals can be used to test drugs but the professor totally disagrees with it saying that it is immoral to use animals for such purposes without their consent, and since they can cannot do so, so they should not be used.
Description: A verb, base: uninflected present, imperative or infinitive is not usually followed by a modal auxillary
Suggestion: Refer to can and cannot
Sentence: She gives numerous examples like medicine to cure malaria, ether for anaesthesia and aspirin which were all discovered without animal testing.
Error: anaesthesia Suggestion: anesthesia
Sentence: The author says that the animals are given proper anaesthesia before testing so as to reduce the effect of pain and are treated in clean , comfortable environment but the professor does not agree with it since she has visited biology lab many times where animals are treated with toxic chemicals without anaesthesia.
Error: anaesthesia Suggestion: anesthesia
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