BH Blogging Assignment 2

My thesis statement is; the government of the United States should pass the law that restricts the use of chimpanzees in medical research in the United States because chimpanzees are an endangered species, the reality of physical procedures for them are cruel, the costs of owning chimpanzees is too high, and the way of medical research using chimpanzees is already old fashioned.

     Many chimpanzees are used for medical research in the Unite States. I am against the research with chimpanzee from the four reasons. Before I states my reasons of opposing to the research, I would like to state the benefit of the research. The medical research with chimpanzees are effective to development of drugs for diseases. For example, chimpanzees are the only animals that is affected with hepatitis C,  infecting 170 millions people in the world. Therefore, some scientists believed that the research is essential to develop drugs and save many people's lives. However, I think that the research should be restricted because of the following reasons. First, chimpanzees are recognized as an endangered species by International Union for Conservation of Nature. The medical research with chimpanzee requires the hunt for them and this means that the species having the closest gene structure with humans would be in the risk of extinction. Thus, the medical using chimpanzee should be restricted to protect them from being extinction. Second, the physical procedures of the medical research and the living standard of chimpanzees are really cruel. In fact, numerous studies of chimpanzees in sanctuaries that had previously been confined in laboratories have reported behavioral symptoms related to post traumatic disorder. Third, the cost to own chimpanzees for medical research is expensive. Ending the research on chimpanzees would save taxpayers about 30 million dollars a year. Finally, the way of research that uses chimpanzees as the subjects of experiments have been out of date in for some time.Other nations such us Australia, Japan, or New Zealand have already banned or strictly limited the use of chimpanzees in medical research. Moreover, there are more effective and cheaper alternatives for the research such as computer modeling.                   

In conclusion, I  think that the government of the United States should pass the law that restricts the use of chimpanzees in medical research in the United States.