This house believes: We need animals in bio-medical research

I look forward to a critical debate. I understand my opponent is an strong advocate for animal rights. And I honor that. But this debate we're about to have is where "its human or animals. " Research needs advocate too. Before we actually start debating, we'll both present our points as per the rules: (1) Potential to finding cure or have find cure to Human Illness. Let it be known that animal research holds great potential to finding cure for Human Illness. We share 95% of our gene with mouse, which holds great potential to helping find cure to some of humans illness. Many people will argue in favor of animals right, yet "smallpox has been eradicated from Earth thanks to research in animals. " Would you rather have had so many humans dying, or would you have allow for the research on animals, that led to this? We got to find a balance in reasoning, and where we stand when it comes to humans wellness and animals wellness. Through medical breakthrough in animal medical research: we find means to the Gila monster's (South American lizard). The Ebola virus that kills up to 90% of humans, has its roots traced by to monkey. While it is not airborne, any physical contact with one that has it, may lead to the death of another person, and if mistakenly one person have died from it, another person will die, and the issue keep going on. I can tell you today we're on the breakthrough of finding cure to this diseases, and if we should find cure to it, we'll combat this disease, and potentially save so many humans life. But hey, I guess animals advocates do not care about the safety and the wellness of humans, so they wouldn't allow for the research on monkeys. So instead, we let humans die. (2) Human being life or well-being is of higher value than animals Would you rather see a rat live or see a little girl live? Would you rather see a monkey live, or see millions of humans safe? Human being life or well-being is of higher value than animals. If doing animal research on a 100 animals for a little girl that has a serious case of sickness, and that animals hold the potential to her sickness, I will fully support it, because she deserves to live better. She's a human being. United States, and other western countries are well advance in medical research and healthcare due to many medical research, especially due to animal research. And while many people around the world are dying from diseases many people are being safe of here, we ought to be thankful for the energy, the resources, and the funding that have been going to it. What makes human of less value than animals? (3) If not on Animals, certainly not on humans, than on what? Animal research holds the key to advance medical research. Many people will argue that it is unethical to research on animals. Those same people who oppose the medical research and try to blockade the research, are the same one who will benefit from it. There are so many diseases in the world, and most of our answers ties back to animals. If we find it unethical to research on animals, we certainly going to find it unethical to research on humans. It's not like were researching on every single thousands of animals in the world, as a matter of fact, other animals combine less than one percent, while "Rats and mice account for about 95 percent of all animals used in research. " Don't tell me Rats and Mice are very important or of higher value than us. "Animals are biologically similar to humans in many ways and they are vulnerable to over 200 of the same health problems", knowing this, its makes sense to research on them than to research on humans personally. (4) Animals are here for humans to use. One of the key issue that will come up in this debate is animal rights. I believe we were not endow with animals to preserve them. Animals were put on earth for the benefit of humans. Simply because you do not use animals, or think we should protect animals does not mean were going to allow advocates block our progress, and block something that will bring a lot of benefits to humans. Animals are being born, and the animal population keeps adding on. Researching and killing are different and even though many research may not be done in good standard, it brings great benefit to humans in the end; and even if this issue about animals dying, hunters kill animals everyday. It's part of life. Animal is our source of our food, and they are now our source of research and it has shown true benefit. . http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk... . http://www.understandinganimalresearch.org.uk... . http://www.amprogress.org... Once my opponent presents his points, we'll get into the true debate.