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Today's world population has advanced this far due to the help of animal testing in various kinds of areas. Yet, some people disagree with animal testing and stand against it. Protestors call animal testing a animal cruelty, which is not similar to the least point. During 1940s and 50s Polio spread around North America killing many and giving great fear to the citizen. Even President Franklin Delano Roosevelt suffered from polio, which led him to become cripple. This chaos was saved with animal testing and it eradicated polio saving many lives. The Global Eradication Initiative (GPEI) has driven a 99% reduction during the last two decades and resulted to reducing 350,000 cases in 1988
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Animal Testing
As history shows man has endured and overcome many diseases and illnesses. These diseases killed many people and caused many to suffer. Most of these diseases have been cured do to mans medical research. Medical research has improved people’s lives along with increased life expectancy greatly. These medical breakthroughs have helped mankind in many ways, but in order to achieve these advances in medicine many animals suffered through testing. These test done to animals have improved the lives of many humans who would have suffered themselves. The testing of laboratory animals is an acceptable form of medical research. Today laboratory animal testing has come a long way
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Throughout the years animal rights groups and organizations have frowned upon animal experiments. Animal testing has been thought to be inhumane and cold-hearted to animals. Because of these accusations medical researchers have to suffer threats from individuals and the media. If animal testing weren’t allowed would that be a drawback in advancement in medical research? Animal testing is beneficial to people because these trails lead to improvements in medical research. Animal experiments have led to finding new cures and vaccines to fatal illnesses. Because animal experiments are helpful in making vaccines to prevent these sicknesses, these trails are the reason so many lives are saved
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scientist who use them to further there research. Millions of animals are experimented on and killed in laboratories in the U.S. every year. In order to preserve the life of valuable animal testing should be restricted, there are alternate methods that scientist can use to discover their answers.
The history of animal testing can be traced back to the ancient Greeks and Romans. Aelius Galenus was a well known Roman physician and philosopher and an accomplished medical researcher of the Roman period. He is known as the father of vivisection. “Vivisection means the "cutting up" of a living animal, and historically referred only to experiments that involved the dissection of live animals
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Every year, animals are subjected to cruel and unnecessary experimentation. According to the USDA, “between 1990-1997 research labs registered with the USDA reported killing at least 12,895,885 dogs, cats, primates, guinea pigs, hamsters, rabbits, bears, armadillos, squirrels, wild rodents and other species. This doesn't include non USDA registered labs” (“Wikianswers”). Lab animals are cut up and tortured to death all in the name of science. How can we as fellow animal species continue to allow this to happen? Animal testing is a callous and barbaric practice. It is unreliable, and there are newer ways to test products that do not involve slaughtering animals. Animals have no voice and
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In the 1880’s, Louis Pasteur conducted one of the most unpleasant series of animal experiments in the history of the fight against infectious disease. Unable to see the organism that causes rabies with the microscopes available, he convinced a skeptical medical community of the microorganism’s existence and also the possibility of vaccinating against it. He did this by doing work on rabbits and dogs. In 1885, after much heart searching, he tried out his rabies vaccine on a nine-year old boy, Joseph Meister, who had been bitten 14 times by a rabid dog. Thanks to Pasteur’s vaccine, the boy lived. (Hampson 1) The life of Joseph Meister and many others like him have
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Throughout the world, right under the human nose, millions of innocent and helpless, animals are being tortured and murdered. They are used for product testing as well as to put into products without consumer knowledge. These defenseless animals are deprived of respect and are victimized to an extent where it becomes unbearable to watch. There are many organizations that are trying to fight for animal rights. However, these organizations struggle with is because there is no legislation in the United States to combat animal testing. Even though it is not against United States regulations, animal testing should be outlawed because of its harmful and cruel effects.
If people were to see how
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Animal testing has been going on for decades all around the world. Increasingly however, more and more protests have been happening against animal testing. People from countries all over the world have started noticing and are working towards banning animal testing but not all people have this view point. This essay will be discussing the negative effects of animal testing and why it should be banned.
So first of all, what is animal testing? Animal testing is the use of animals in experiments and development products used to determine toxicity, dosing and efficiency of the tested drugs before proceeding to human clinical trials. Animal testing is used to make sure that products designed
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Every year over 100 million animals die in the US; the cause for these deaths, animal testing. This injustice to animals involves testing products such as medical drugs or makeup, on poor imprisoned animals that don’t have the ability to stand for their own rights as most of us do. Animals used for testing are given products that may result in burning, poisoning, or death. These animals are forced to live in confined spaces where they wait until the next horrible experiment. They are, tortured beyond imagination as they are sometimes even cut open while they are alive (know as vivisection), either with expired analgesics or even without them.
These animals used for testing products
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Every year, millions of human beings and animals are suffering and dying because of various diseases, as cancer, malaria, jaundice, Alzheimer and Parkinson. The disclosures of new medicines are exceedingly necessary. The process of drug discovery is sparingly complex, it isn’t straightforward. The main problem is one cannot test ones newly identified medicine on humans. If the medicine does not suit the human body, then there is a risk of death or side-effects. Therefore, the drug discovery experiment is performed on animals and this process is called animal testing. Animal testing is indispensable for drug discovery. The most common animals used for the testing are mice, rabbits and
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Daniella AlmanzaWriting and RhetoricAnimal Testing Is WrongAnimal testing is a common scientific practice in major industries such as the cosmetic and medicinal industries. Animals are stripped of their rights and are forced to participate in cruel and inhumane experiments just to test out different products. When compared to human DNA, the only animals that have similar DNA are chimpanzees (99% alike) and mice (98% alike). Animal testing should be discontinued because of inaccurate results, inhumane animal treatment, and there are new ways to test different products and chemicals.In the 1980s and 1990s, there was a public outbreak when people started to find out that the products they
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Animal testing in research labs is outdated due to advances in technology that do not require the use of animals. Furthermore, testing on animals is inhumane and barbaric due to the harsh treatments many animals suffer in research labs. Most animals suffer in small cages while they are injected with harmful substances, and their response is usually different from that of a human’s which can be misleading. There are safer alternatives that includes no harm to the animals, such as tube studies on human tissue, statistics and computer models.
Animals that are researched in labs are bred solely for the purpose of scientific research. These animals endure testing of cosmetics, drugs and vaccines
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killed and their
lungs are examined. “The conclusion that has been reached is that tremendous pain and
suffering are being inflicted upon helpless animals under the guise of research, and the
results being attained or admittedly on no benefits to mankind” (Vincent 17). In most
cases the drugs will need to be tested on humans before the FDA will approve them
anyway and it is know fact that not all drugs work the same on humans as they do on
animals (Masci). Therefore, regardless of animal testing the consumer always becomes
the so called “guinea pig” for any new product.
The most important issue is understanding why companies still test on animals
when non-animal alternatives
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When you go to your local pharmacy and pick up medicine, do you know what animals have gone through to get it on the shelves? It is something we’ll never have to imagine going through, so why should animals? Animal testing is not necessary. Animals simply don’t have a choice if they want to be experimentd on. What makes me angry, is there are alternative methods to testing, so animals don’t need to suffer. Animals have to endure terrible pain, fear, and loneliness, which is cruel and mean on our part. The pros and cons to testing don’t even out. Cleary, animal testing needs to be put to a halting stop.
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Animals and humans are very much alike. Infact, this
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Nowadays, there are countless conflictions and controversies regarding medical research, from among those highly discussed issues is animal experimentation or animal testing. Animal experimentation is a method used to experiment newly introduced drugs, cosmetics or even new food spices, such things are tested on animals to ensure that it is safe enough to be used by humans or for humans , but as noble the purpose might seem ,is it really worth torturing such helpless creatures for the sake of making a new eyeliner or food spices ??, this just seems inhumane even cruel , but what might be more cruel even vicious is the alternate way for animal testing which would be experimenting on
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inhumane. Although animals have some similarities to human’s does not mean they will have the same reactions. The test performed on these animals are not very accurate of what will happen when humans take that tested product. There are alternatives that we can use to put an end to animal testing.
Animal testing has been going since the 1920, many large corporation but not all have banned the use of animal testing. “Some corporations still force substances into animals’ stomachs and drip chemicals into rabbits’ eyes. These tests are not required by law, and they often produce inaccurate or misleading results—even if a product has blinded an animal, it can still be marketed to you.”(PETA 1) I also
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ANIMAL TESTINGThanks to the animal experiments, there have been great advances in our medical information and we have achieved a high standard of health. When the advantages provided taken into account, the benefits of testing animals do not compensate suffering or death of animals. I am in the opinion that animals testing are stopped in terms of animal slaughter, the sales of cosmetics products, incorrect experiment's results.I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't. The pain which it inflicts upon nonconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without
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Animal Rights: Legal or Inhumane?"They're Pinky and the BrainThey're Pinky and the BrainOne is a genius; the other's insaneThey're laboratory miceTheir genes have been splicedThey're Pinky, they're Pinky and the Brain, BrainBrain, Brain, Brain."This theme song to a popular cartoon is a mockery dealing with experiments carried out on animals. In the cartoon, one mouse is made very smart and wants to take over the world while the other is clearly not as smart. While the cartoon makes jokes, the reality is that mice and other animals are being used for medical tests every day. For some people, this testing brings up ethical questions. One of the biggest questions is, Is it really necessary to
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So the next big question is, isn’t animal testing essential? Doesn’t it cure disease and save human lives? Well the answer is no. Animal testing is unreliable, expensive, time consuming, and most of all it’s not necessary. Animals are not good models for humans. They are allergic to certain basic compounds that are fine for humans, like Paracetamol (“used to treat many conditions such as headache, muscle aches, arthritis, backache, toothaches, colds, fevers, and relieves pain in mild arthritis” (Paracetamol), and vice versa. Drugs that have passed animal trials have then gone on to kill humans. The alternatives are better. Human tissue tests, computer models, population studies, and many
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ANIMAL TESTING
INTRODUCTION
Animals have been used in scientific experiments for a long time to be able to understand and define how human body works and to cure certain diseases. However, most of the people are in disagreement to use animals in scientific experiments. They suggest using humans as test subjects with the drug trials. The first reason why humans should be used for drugs trials is that animals are living creatures that have rights to reject although they cannot speak in the human language. Moreover, they suffer and there are even people who try to animate their feelings by crying and trying to be like animals. Since people choose to and to be volunteered to be experimented on
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testing is an issue in today's society that, whether anyone realizes it, does affect eachof us. Such as transplants, vaccines, and medicine. Nearly each and every one of us today havereceived vaccine shots. We have all used medications. We have all heard of transplant technology.This above example I have used is farfetched. Brain transplants are not an everyday occurrence. Theyare not yet, at least. However, kidney and heart transplants are beginning to become a more andmore common every day. Who knows what is possible with the proper research. Today there are agreat deal of people who oppose animal testing in laboratory research. This is limiting our medicalcapabilities . Could we be holding
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animal testing
“Beauty without cruelty” is the outcry that can be heard from animal right activists around the world. The FDA does not require companies to perform tests on animals but if the cosmetic product contains chemicals that can be seen as toxins, testing becomes a necessity. There are currently thirteen safety tests that are performed on animals.
Anti-testing activists deem these unnecessary and consider them to be cruel. “Fourteen million animals are used currently in the U.S. to test toxicity and irritancy of cosmetics and household products” (Hannah). Many new forms of safety tests are being developed by companies to save money along with the lives of innocent animals
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animal testingBrobeck 1 Using animals for biomedical research is morally right; however, using animals for the testing of cosmetics is morally wrong. "Animals need protecting," says Ann Rotsten, the wife of Michael Rotsten. Michael Rotsten is a lawyer in California. For Rotsten, no case or client is too large, too small or too furry. Fifty-four year-old Rotsten works from a one-room office in Los Angeles and runs one of the only practices in the nation devoted exclusively to dogs, cats, livestock, birds, and just about anything that is not human. Rotsten has taken on about 250 animal-related cases such as helping Virginia O'Brien legally adopt K.K., an abandoned horse (Jerome 72). Working
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rabbits are bleeding as a result of poisonous chemicals being injected into their skin is not a pleasant thing to think about when buying health and beauty products, but it's a reality. Animal experimentation, also known as vivisection in the animal rights community, has become an accepted practice of cosmetic manufacturers across the globe and has stirred many ethical debates. These debates cause us to rethink the question: "Should animals continue to be used for scientific or commercial testing?"To animal activists, the answer is clear: absolutely not, animal testing is cruel and inhumane. According to the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), millions of cats, dogs, mice
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Pro & Con Arguments: "Should Animals Be Used for Scientific or Commercial Testing?"PRO Animal Testing : Animal testing has contributed to many life-saving cures and treatments. The California Biomedical Research Association states that nearly every medical breakthrough in the last 100 years has resulted directly from research using animals. [9] Experiments in which dogs had their pancreases removed led directly to the discovery of insulin, critical to saving the lives of diabetics. [101] The polio vaccine, tested on animals, reduced the global occurrence of the disease from 350,000 cases in 1988 to 223 cases in 2012. [112, 113] Animal research has also contributed to major advances in
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Pro & Con Arguments: "Should Animals Be Used for Scientific or Commercial Testing?"PRO Animal Testing : Animal testing has contributed to many life-saving cures and treatments. The California Biomedical Research Association states that nearly every medical breakthrough in the last 100 years has resulted directly from research using animals. [9] Experiments in which dogs had their pancreases removed led directly to the discovery of insulin, critical to saving the lives of diabetics. [101] The polio vaccine, tested on animals, reduced the global occurrence of the disease from 350,000 cases in 1988 to 223 cases in 2012. [112, 113] Animal research has also contributed to major advances in
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Animal Testing
More and more animals are being taken form their natural habitats and tested on every year. Researchers, scientists, and companies just trying to make new products are using animals to further their experiments. If animal testing continues to happen at this rate then their will be no animals left to use for food, study, or even for simple amusement. When the animals are being taken form their natural environments it harms the natural food chain and other ways of life. When people abusing the animal’s rights they make the animals suffer and decrease their overall population. Many people are trying to find ways to
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his response he said that, "Hunting is legal therefore not immoral"¦there is substantial, biological support for bear hunting." (Finsen 47) His defense rests simply on legality, and at no time did he consider the moral aspects of hunting. On one ground he is right, he may legally kill a bear, but it is ethically and morally wrong to do so.The morality of animal testing has much to with that of equality and respect. Imagine, that you our in a laboratory where you can be burned, exposed to diseses, forced to smoke or drink alcohol, have various organs removed, your bones broken, or your spinal cord severed. Things such as this are done to approximately 10-100 million animals a year
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a very common form of testing for several products, whether it be random household products or medicinal products.Other products such as eye shadow and soap are tested on rabbits, guinea pigs, rats, dogs, and other "defenseless animals". According to a side project of PETA's (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) Stopanimaltests.com, "Animals are routinely cut open, poisoned, and forced to live in barren steel cages for years, although studies show that because of vast physiological variations between species, human reactions to illnesses and drugs are completely different from those of other animals. Today's non-animal research methods are humane, more accurate, less expensive, and
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ISSUE: For the most part, we would not be able to live very comfortably without them. The question of what is considered proper treatment of animals has been highly debated by groups looking at both the moral and ethical issues of the situation. What exactly is our proper role with regard to non-human creatures? Do they have any rights, or may we do as we please with them? These are questions that politicians all over the world have been arguing about for many years, and still is as controversial as ever!PROBLEM: How can animal testing benefit both animals and humans without harming the animals?BACKGROUND: For thousands of years, humans have used animals for a variety of purposes including
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Animal Testing
Using Animals for testing is wrong and should be banned. They should be entitled to the rights we have. Every day humans are using defenseless animals for cruel and most often useless tests. The animals cannot fight for themselves therefore we must. There should be stronger laws to protect them from laboratory experiments.
Although private companies run most labs, experiments are often conducted by public organizations. The U.S. government, the Army and Air Force in particular, has designed and conducted many animal experiments. The experiments were engineered so that many animals would suffer and die without any
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been proven that a lot of good has come out of animal research and animal testing, this does not make up for all the pain and suffering that these animals go though without being able to consent. The truth still remains that, despite the benefits (when there are benefits), perhaps we need to contemplate the effects that our actions are having on these animals.
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What is an animal tested product? Is it a medicine? Or is it a cosmetic?Some people might think animal tested products as complicated stuffs. In fact, animal tested products are easily found around our lives. As animal testing is available in many uses, it has a long history and has been controversial for many years. Those who insist on abolition of experiments for animals argue that alternatives for animal testing exist. In addition, the protesters think that human’s anatomy and that of an animal are very different.Therefore, they argue that applying test results from animal testing is meaningless. Also they say that animal testing must be abolished because of ethical issues. Those
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Animal Testing is Animal Cruelty
The way I look at animal testing is a form hateful cruelty. None of these people care about if it hurts or kills the animals. The cruelty has been going on long enough and I think it is time to stop. What people do not know is that animal’s react a different way to drugs as humans do, so scientist cannot apply the results to humans. Many animals go through screaming, unbearable, horrific; you cannot even imagine pain when they go through test for products that you use every day such as: Cosmetics, Household Products, Medical Products, even Iams dog products. Some well-known animals that are use for testing are: cats, dogs, mice, rats, hamsters, guinea pigs
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“The reason we use animal tests is because we have a comfort level with the process . . . not because it is the correct process, not because it gives us any real new information.” (Anderson). There have been numerous new developments and technology in our society today, old fashion animal testing should not be the number one experiment to test new products and drugs. Science should be moving forward in technology, where there is cruelty free research and testing. The modern technology, we have today is cheaper and most of the time more effective than animal testing. So why are researchers still using animal testing as their number one source for test trials? There should be a law that
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In today’s humanity, multitude amounts of animals are mistreated and eradicated during animal testing. Because testing on animals has become a law throughout the world, a lot of scientists have not realized the immortality that has been put upon the animals. Is it fair to test cosmetics and potential carcinogens on animals? During each year, millions of animals are tested on for biomedical research, chemical testing and training (Lee Bowman 2011). Testing cosmetics and chemicals on animals is catastrophic because it is abusive, detrimental and carcinogenic.
Testing cosmetics and chemicals on animals has evolved as disastrous because it is extremely abusive and causes animals to suffer
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Beneficial Animal Testing
Animal testing has always been plagued with controversy on its ethical issues by animal activist groups and supportive scientists. Is it morally just to experiment and sacrifice laboratory animals on behalf of human research? Dr. Gina Solomon MD wrote her article regarding the benefits of animal testing to protect the human race and all other species. Her article “The Lesser Evil” shows the beneficial and positive aspects of animal experimentation. She approves the notion for animal testing but requests greater regulation and gentler methods of testing when scientifically possible. Dr. Solomon’s article was published in the Earth Island Journal
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There are many valid reasons why we should continue testing on animals. The life of a human is ultimately more valuable than that of an animal. Without animal research, there would not be the medication as we know it today. Animal testing has enabled science to progress and find treatments for viruses, produce antibiotics for some of the deadly disease, infections as well as preventatives in a form of developing vaccines to cure diseases. Moreover, the factor of moral obligations entreat the facts that there are excessive structures with laws in place to protect the animal from being abuse and mistreated, as all animal testing proposals must be approved by an Institutional Animal Care and
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In 2012 19.5 million animals died due to animal experimentation (Animal Testing Statistics). Since then, the number of procedures has slowly continued to increase. Even though cosmetic testing on animals has become illegal, animal testing continues in other areas. Animals are tested on to research cures for multiple diseases, house chemicals, and cosmetic products. Although testing has helped scientific research, it is not always reliable, and there are more accurate alternatives to animal testing.
In a student survey that I took 19/30 students believed that animal testing is wrong. But, only four out of 30 students answered they would be willing to volunteer for testing (even without death
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Animal Testing
Animal testing is a controversial subject amongst many people, some of which believe it greatly benefits humanity and others who believe it is animal cruelty. Animal treatment during testing is one of the most discussed arguments between those who are for and against testing. How regulated and ethical or unethical are these procedures? Do animals deserve rights that would make them exempt from laboratory testing? Does science and humans truly reap any real benefits from these experiments or can these results be replicated without the use of animals? Although animal testing has brought advancements to human science in the past, it is an expensive way of
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Without animal testing, many of the medicines humans use today for basic survival such as the insulin used for diabetics would not exist. Basic operations would not be possible and America would never have landed a man on the moon if it were not for the ape we sent there first. Evidence of experiments and dissections done on animals can be seen as far back as 500 BC. Famous scientists such as Aristotle, who is said to be the originator of biological studies, performed experiments on living animals that gave mankind the basis of anatomy. Animals such a pigs and goats were first used to practice surgeries before applying them to humans. From there, humans have begun to test other operations
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Reynolds finally got the transplant he needed to stay alive. His surgery went well and he got to go home soon after. His wife was no longer worried about his health, and Reynolds could ride his bike again. The surgery that saved this man's life would not have been possible without animal testing and research ("Heart Transplant: A Life Saved Courtesy of Animal Research").
All the techniques and medications used in organ transplant surgeries were first used on animals. Scientists had to make sure that the procedures would be safe for a human. They knew where to cut the arteries because scientist and doctors used animals in the 1900's to determine how and where to make the cuts. The doctors
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Animal testing has always been an important part of scientific and medical advances. Studying the results of just one experiment can provide invaluable breakthroughs leading to cures for patients. If scientists do not experiment on animals, the risky trial runs would have to be conducted on humans. Despite the merits of animal testing though, experimental cats, dogs, and primates face intolerable cruelty inside the laboratory. They have not the means of resisting subjection to the painful and often repeated Frankenstein experiments where scientists injure an animal so that they could test a new drug. Thousands of animals die each year- most of them forced to stay alive many months, limping
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Animal testing has been around since the third and fourth centuries BC, when it was performed by Greek philosopher-physicians. However, it is unknown when people began to question this process. In today’s society, the idea of testing products on animals has become more and more controversial with numerous groups being created and becoming even more vocal. While people will decide for themselves where they stand in this argument, I would hope that most would agree that animal abuse is wrong. So, if animal abuse is wrong and animal testing can be, and usually is, much more painful and severe than animal abuse; why can’t people agree on the subject of animal testing? However, the argument for
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pain and damage to your organs, humans did not but animals did and continue to be killed for our assurance.Animal testing can be traced back to as early as the ancient Greek and Roman times ("History of Animal Testing"); the first major reference to animal testing was in the late nineteenth century when Louis Pasteur gave some sheep anthrax to show the importance of vaccines with his germ theory. ("Better Science Limitation of Animal Testing") Through animal testing many species of animals have been subjected to various and harmful subjects that have been proven to be detrimental to both their physical and mental health. Throughout the years most animals have gained some rights but they are
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We all have a pet either is a dog named spot or a cat named fluffy would you wont some one to test medicine or cosmetic on your pet so why let them on some one else. Today I am going to tell you why animals testing is wrong, what the drug and cosmetic companies do to these poor creatures. Drug testing on animals is unnecessary because animals body never reacts to drug like humans. Drug and cosmetic companies are the biggest animal tester. They have a lot of drug recalled because animal testing didnt show that they where harmful. It is just a waste of money, time and effort to test on animals because 60% of the time it just torments the animals and never benefits anyone. Why do you need
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Animal Testing Should Be AbolishedAnimal testing imposes a great deal of cruelty on innocent creatures. Testing involves the use of cosmetics, medicines, and household products on animals. The tests are all unnecessary because animals react to substances much differently than humans. All of the tests take long amounts of time to complete, and in the end they are pointless due to the fact that they only show needless results. Today's technology has many alternatives to testing, which completely eliminates the suffering experienced by millions of animals each year. Therefore, with the inability to produce any important results and the unfortunate pain they inflict upon harmless creatures
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Pharmaceutical and medical research benefits humans greatly. Much of these life-saving developments are being conducted via animal experimentation. It is often said that animal testing should not be implemented, for it is not morally ideal or necessary. Opponents of animal testing urgently demand for alternative methods, which aim to replace the practice of animal studies. However, first and foremost, animal research saves lives. It is undeniable that animal-based experimentation has played a vital part in finding drugs and live-saving treatments to improve health and medicine. Animal studies also contributed to numerous medical advances over the last decade; these include surgical
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Animal testing is not a new thing. For many centuries scientists and testers in research have used animals of all kinds. Most of the animals are small ones like rodents: rats, mice, hamsters and gerbils. Some dogs, cats and a variety of goats, monkeys, and rabbits have also been used. The animal rights issue is an emotional one. For decades the value of animal research has been grossly overrated. Although researchers claim that they depend on animal test data to achieve medical advances, we should demand other means of research and there should be laws assuring a minimum level of animal protection because testing on animals is cruel, inhumane, and often unnecessary. The American Medical
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Have you ever really thought about what happens during animal testing? How the animals are treated, or what tortures they have to face on a day to day basis? More than one-hundred million animals suffer and die every year through animal testing. Ninety-five percent of animals used in experimentation aren’t even covered under the Animal Welfare Act, which regulates the treatment of the animals that are used for testing. Some animals are abused and mistreated so badly that they die before they are even experimented on. Animal testing is a cruel procedure and should be made illegal.
However, animal testing is very important to understanding the human body. Over the years, we have vivisection
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