He International Laboratory Animal Day Each is celebrated April 24 Since 1979. This date has been reminded by the United Nations and a multitude of organizations uses it to perform actions against animal experiments.
The interest of not suffering and continuing to live from all animals ensures that we consider them. Consequently, we should reject animal experiments as we would if they were people.
Every year millions of animals of different species are subject to countless and cruel experiments that in many cases produce questionable results.
Animalist entities ask governments and scientists to devote more economic resources and efforts to develop alternative methods without animals, and more reliable resultsThey are currently confronted with the interests of routine procedures.
Today is the World Laboratory Animal Day 2025And that is intended to increase awareness of the whole world that, for fundamental ethical reasons with regard to living conditions and the use of animals in laboratories, the predictive value of these animal -based studies nowadays no longer seems to be useful.
World Laboratory Animal Day exists because its use is cruel
There World Laboratory Animal Day this year 2025 It is important to remember that not everything that is justified should be true. In the case of drugs in the case of drugs, more than 90% of molecules in animals in clinical examinations in people. And this happens because human nature is very different from that of animals.
A study from 2004 conducted by the American Food and Medicines Administration proved that 92% of the medicines whose clinical examinations were tested with animals were not approved. And of the approved, half had to be removed or ranked again due to serious or fatal side effects, which were not detected in animal testing.
Another justification for the World Laboratory Animal Day This 2025 It is not the case that too many variables are taken into account and that, since animals are syndor, everything that a researcher can do an animal in a laboratory can cause changes in his physiology that we cannot control.
That is, which factors such as the light they receive, the stress that imprisonment and evidence cause them, the type of cabin in which they live, the frequency with which they are manipulated, among other things, can influence the results. But all this is ignored.
In Europe, at least 197,000 citizens die prematurely as a result of the side effects of medicines. And the vast majority are products that have long been tested in animals and are considered effective.
Ethics and specificity
A considerable number of scientists and researchers oppose experiments with animals. And this amount grows with jumps and boundaries. And not only for ethical reasons, but also on the basis of the fact that it is not a reliable model to compare it with another. A reality that is really irrefutable.
This can be demonstrated logically and scientifically, because a species is defined by its reproductive insulation within a specific ecological niche. Members of one species can only reproduce between members of the same species and not with those of the other.
It is also characterized by its unique and other genome of other species. Chromosomes of different species are also different. However, the chromosomes of an individual determine all their biological activities. Because the biological activities of two different types are different, one species cannot be a reliable model of another.
This specificity between species explains why experiments with all types of animals are unnecessary, ineffective and the commemoration of World Laboratory Animal Day 2024, the scientific community should promote to leave this research model now.
Why don’t alternative methods spread?
In general, the scientific community is little motivated to replace experiments with animals with alternative methods. For that reason, various validated replacement methods are ignored by laboratories, which prefer the use of animals.
A good example is the many studies that have been carried out in search of treatments for serious brain diseases, such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s Parkinson’s. And the failure was so sounding when trying people experienced in animals that many large pharmaceutical products, obtained with this methodology, would rather have stopped studying these evils, instead of changing the methodology and providing with laboratory animals.
Some alternative research paths, without animals, have already demonstrated their effectiveness, but there is still much to end up animals. The rigid regulatory framework is currently not waived from tests with animals in research and development.