Topic > Scientific testing on prisoners - 735

400,000 Americans die every year from cancer, disease and infections due to insufficient medicinal treatments due to inaccurate testing on animals. As a result, approximately 6.7 million animals die each year because they are confined in a laboratory for testing to create medicines (Moran, 2013). Human beings are accustomed to believing that they have superiority over all other species. However, as history has shown, we are the primary species creating chaos and devastation, while other species are forced to give their lives to save or aid such destruction. In 2012, $3.8 billion of US taxpayers was invested in unnecessary items such as LED road bridges, specialized caviar production, and large prison camps (Weissmann, 2013). Why is taxpayer money going towards these irrelevant features when it could be going towards better medical research? It's time for consumers and taxpayers to realize that animal testing wastes hundreds of millions of dollars every year and produces an ineffective product. Passing a law in the United States that allows voluntary scientific testing on prisoners rather than nonhuman animals will lead to a more evolved society, lower taxes, and greater biomedical accuracy. In the United States alone, it is estimated that there are 17 to 22 million animals in laboratory research facilities (Lauerman 2009). There isn't a single person who can walk into an animal testing center and say it's not wrong. At the same time, there is no sane person who can walk into a maximum security prison and say that convicted serial killers and rapists deserve a comfortable life. Animals are condemned to death due to society's selfish need to create new medicines; as a result, animals are sacrificed without any protection while the toughest criminals... half of paper... or more humans trying these new drugs are the real test. As a result, drugs tested on animals have killed, disabled, or harmed millions of people and led to costly delays. Human stem cells are the key to actionable biomedical research, and convicted criminals are the answer to faster, better, more accessible medicine because the number of volunteer human subjects is so low, resources for testing on the same species are insufficient, and a much more viable alternative is available. In conclusion, the use of animals in laboratories, the cost of inmate housing, inaccurate biomedical testing, have created a major problem that must be considered. We can no longer support in good faith something that is so destructive to the environment and society. Enabling voluntary biomedical testing on prisoners will lead to a more evolved society, reduced taxes and greater biomedical accuracy.