Animal testing is a methodology implemented to identify the effectiveness of a drug on any animal before issuing it to humans. Animal testing was commonly practiced from the age of Greeks themselves. Some historical figureheads who made use of animal testing are Aristotle‚ Erasistratus and Galen (Hajar‚R.‚ 2011). Without animal testing there can be severe consequences‚ for example‚ in 1937 a pharmaceutical establishment in the USA manufactured a medicine. The manufacturer did not know that one of
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Animals have been used in countless numbers of experiments ever since humans first developed a curiosity of how the human body works. Due to opening up a human in ancient times being not only taboo but also considered blasphemous to God‚ animals were used as substitutes to understand the human anatomy. It was relatively recently that humans started to use animals to understand diseases and test new chemicals we have developed. These animals have helped humanity advance to where it is today‚ and we
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Animal testing is a highly controversial topic and it raises a moral dilemma about whether it is ethical to harm animals in order to improve human lives‚ with many people strongly demanding that this practice be banned. In this essay‚ I shall argue that animal testing is justified since the benefits resulting from it outweigh the harms and thus should not be banned. Firstly‚ scientific research involving animals has had an essential importance in developing new medicines. According to the California
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that GMOs will end world hunger‚ but it is killing us rather than saving us. If food companies continue to advertise GMOs as the savior of America’s hunger problems‚ the country is in for a surprise. Any food product being sold to the general public should be removed and banned because GMOs contribute to the rise of illness‚ contaminate the plants in our organic farms‚ and humans were not made to play god. If we continue to consume GMOs‚ the numbers of Americans conceiving illnesses‚ like autism‚
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recover resources like oil‚ meat‚ and blubber. Whaling was banned in 1986‚ but a loophole in the law allows countries to continue whaling for scientific research. At the moment Japan and Iceland are the main countries continuing this act. The act of commercial whaling should be completely banned before whales before extinct. First reason why commercial whaling should be banned is because whales could become extinct due to whaling. According to Frank Zelko‚ “Most whale species are not even close to recovering
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The Reason Why You Should Vote The reason why you should vote speaker 1 gave a good motivational speech. In my opinion her speech gave good reasons to get people to go out to vote. Being a victim of domestic violence‚ by voting for a change in the justice system for harsh punishment for domestic abusers‚ helped victims not to be afraid anymore. I thought her speech was very emotional because her speech was from a personal experience. By her voting as a victim of domestic abuse can help push some
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that about twenty-six million animals around the world are indeed dying due to the fact that scientists around the world are experimenting on animals for scientific testing. Animals are being killed in many parts of the world due to scientists forcing lipsticks and shampoos down their throats to check if the new beauty products are safe to wear. Most experiments tested on animals are faulty‚ which is wasting the lives of the poor animals. Also‚ drugs that pass animal tests are not certainly safe.
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Rohit Dsouza Section A 122028 Problems with scientific research The article speaks of the trend in the scientific research‚ which is worrisome due to decline in the quality of research. Rising competition among scientists has led to a culture of “Publish or Perish”‚ which forces them to work on topics that are more appealing to people irrespective of their significance. They compromise on the quality of research by manipulating data or hiding unfavorable data. There are serious questions
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Animal experiments are always a controversial topic because of the moral issue. Most of the people who are disagreeing animal testing is because they believed that animal can feel pain like humans do. Animal testing in the United States is accessory to the federal Animal Welfare Act (AWA) [1]‚ passed in 1966 and amended in 1970 and 1976. In a recent article‚ Parliament [2] said that animal research is the use of non-anthropoid animals in experiment that’s explore to control the variables that affect
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Using Animals For Scientific Purposes 1-Although some people believe that using animals in medical researches is unethical as it is taking advantage of another living being‚ I claim that it is acceptable since the most effective way to save people’s lives‚ reliable and both animals and human can benefit from it. 2-Using animals for scientific purposes can be tolerated since it’s the most effective way to combat deadly diseas. A.figuring out the side effects of medicines 3-Benefiting from
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