This essay is about the use of animals in medical research. This essay talks about why labortatory animals are needed to help in the discovery of vaccines and cures, easing the burdern of chronic deseases, and ensuring humans a safe food supply. Includes the benefits and contributions animals have in medical research. Since the ancient Greeks, experimental animals have been very important to our understanding of the biological processes that makes life possible. In a …showed first 75 words of 1044 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1044 total…The public is more likely to protest something that few of them understand than something, like eating meat, which most people accept. Yet, scientists say that medical research is the very area where the greatest good has come at the smallest ethical price. Discoveries made using animals have long-term benefits. Unlike the pig that died for a pork sandwich, the pig that was used to create insulin helped prolong the lives of people with diabetes.