The endless torture of animal testing Is it necessary to use animals in medical research? Some would say yes, others would say no… but who is right? No matter what you think or believe, this question still remains, still unanswered. At first this question seems like its answer lies in one's opinion and that alone, but if you look closer there is much more than opinion. Feeling sorry for animals is definitely the starting point for people who don't agree with animal testing; but it didn't end there. Scientists and medical researchers say animal testing is the future of finding cures. They also believe it is cruel to use animals to test our products, but there are no other options. Using animals for testing helps them understand what will and won't work on humans. Using animals can help find cures faster and help prevent more human deaths. While some people believe this to be true, I have a different opinion. Reading articles by several doctors, I discovered that the use of animals in medicine has not helped humans come close to what people think it has. Just because animals live and breathe like us, doesn't mean their systems are somehow similar to ours. In fact, they are nothing like ours. Test after test has been conducted on animals to help find treatments and medicines that work in humans. After all this... what do we have to prove? A puzzle with missing pieces that we won't find... not this way. Ray Creek, a certified medical doctor, explains why the use of animals actually slows down medical research. “The simplest explanation is that animal tests provide misleading data. At best, they tell us a lot about how animals experience disease, but they rarely tell us anything useful that can be applied to humans. Animal tests they provide additional data, but not a higher level of precision." This very topic is something I've always thought about, but never thought I was right. What good is using animals to test medicines if it doesn't even help? Another statement from Ray Creek is that "The General Accounting Office concluded several years ago that animal tests do not accurately predict how dangerous a drug will be" in humans. In other words, drug testing on animals does not protect humans from harmful drugs.