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Breaking Medical News: Cell Culture Beats Animal Tests for Irritancy Accuracy

Animal testing in the 20th and 21st century are large scale undertakings. Many see the killing or suffering the animals endure as a necessary evil in the hope of benefiting human beings. Killing animals in and off itself could possibly be done humanly. The suffering they are likely to endure during research trials is probably

a little harder to argue away. There

are probably people who don’t care about what happens to animals but many would likely be against making animals suffer and/or killing them. Even if people care they generally would trade the welfare of humans for that of animals. This might not be true with animal rights activists but they are definitely not a general representation of people. The easiest way to convince people to remove animal testing would be by finding an alternative that supersedes the benefit we gain from animal testing. Research has recently just done that. Human like cell cultures have been shown to pass all chemical testings for irritancy whereas animal testing has failed 10 out of 25 tests. Now that animal testing is less accurate than the human like cell cultures from Matek corporation it would be unethical to risk human exposure to products that resulted from animal testing. This for now may only apply to accuracy of irritancy but it seems to me that it has the potential to be superior across the board.