Animals in research...

The people from research fraternity would undeniably disagree with the fact that research can be done without the usage of animals. Being a researcher, my ideas too coincides with the others. Pragmatically speaking, the usage of animals in research is essential as they are anatomically nearer to the human race. The highest priority in research is given to make this earth a better place for human beings. Nothing comes out without price. It is true that all the research would not necessitate animals but research in medical sciences cannot be done without them. But the animal lovers have equal affinity for both human beings and animals and may be a little more for the later groups of creature. They would completely disagree with the logic provided by me.

The big question that needed to be asked is, whether the animals are sacrificed or used in research. The fact that the usage of chemicals and medicines for testing purpose always kills an animal is fallacious. There always remains a little risk to the lives of animals, but researcher these days take enough steps to ensure they are not harming any living creatures. Getting a clearance for conducting research on animals has become an uphill task because of a plethora of scrutiny before allowing the researcher to conduct any kind of test on them. The scenario created nowadays compels a researcher to accomplish the task of analyzing the scope of the research before experimenting with animals.

I have never encountered a research constituting animals in the field of engineering. So the usage of animals in research is confined to a restricted domain. Those specific domains are mainly biology, chemistry, medical sciences, agriculture etc. There are certain experimental researches where human beings are part of it. So if human-beings can be part of it, then why not animals? There are certain cases which involves high risk to life where human beings cannot be tested so we make use of animals who bear high correlation with human-beings anatomically.

It is ironical to witness the world where people kill animals to fill their bellies and also protest the usage of the animals in research. For example, it is hilarious to consider the situation where a patient suffering from heart disease due to excessive eating of non-vegetarian food is undertaking treatment from the research borne out of involvement of animals. The world is surrounded by a few hypocrites who will always be an obstacle to the path of research, but they should also think that they survive because of the research. They survive so that they could at least be a living hypocrite. I personally do not bear any hatred-ness to any creature in this world. Even soldiers go to battlefield and there is always a high risk of their death.