principle called the “three R’s’ of animal testing: reduction‚ replacement‚ and refinement. These three principles can be used to improve the animals’ conditions. For example‚ scientists can reduce the amount of animals used in research while gaining the same amount of information. They can replace animals when it is possible to‚ like what the Use Committee and Animal Care groups do. Finally‚ researchers can refine their methods by minimizing pain for animals and giving them better living conditions”(Shany
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Product Testing on Animals Research Outline RES/110 Research Project Outline Introduction Every year since the 20th century‚ researchers have been conducting toxicity tests on millions of animals to estimate the safety of products and chemicals before it is available for human use. Animals such as cats‚ dogs‚ mice‚ monkeys‚ and several other species are placed in artificial environments‚ like laboratories and medical schools to possibly undergo surgeries or other procedures. Scientists use
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Put a Halt on Animal Testing Humans to this day find themselves dominant over animals. The world is becoming less aware of the pain and suffering being afflicted on animals. As a result‚ animals are becoming more and more downtrodden in society. Humans still continue to treat animals as if they are poverty. As if we can own animals and therefore control their lives and what happens to them. I find this very immoral. Animals are here for themselves. Just like humans‚ they have their own lives‚ in
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Animal testing has for a long time been a much debated moral issue. For many‚ this kind of testing has been the only kind of hope for developing new medicines and treatments for illness. For others‚ it is an unacceptable and unnecessary cruel way of exploiting animals for our own purposes. Treatments for illnesses such as tuberculosis‚ diabetes‚ kidney failure and asthma have all been discovered‚ and vaccinations against polio‚ diphtheria‚ tetanus and measles for example have all been found. There
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Born to Die At this moment‚ millions of mice‚ rats‚ rabbits‚ cats‚ dogs‚ and other animals are locked inside cold‚ tiny cages in laboratories across the world. They suffer in pain‚ ache with loneliness and long to roam free. Instead‚ all they can do is sit and wait in fear of the next terrifying and painful procedure that will be performed on them. The stress‚ sterility and boredom causes some animals to develop neurotic behavior such as incessantly spinning in circles or even pulling out
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“Humans and animals have the same destiny‚ One dies just like the other. All of them have the same breath of life. Humans have no advantage over animals. All of life is pointless. All life goes to the same place. All life comes from the ground‚ and all of it goes back to the ground.” Ecclesiastes 3:19-20 (Bible) Now‚ what is animal testing? Well‚ animal testing is any scientific test or experiment in which a life animal is forced to undergo something that is likely to cause pain‚ suffering‚ distress
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over whether we as a society should continue testing on animals. It seems for many this topic has quite a moral grey area. Some see it as something that is necessary in order for scientific research. Many of our scientific achievements of the last century have involved animal testing in some way. Others however see it as something that is wrong and unethical and feel like it should be abolished. Organizations such as PETA have developed‚ arguing that animals should have the same rights as humans. Many
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about the animals that are being brutally tested? Or the cute lovable animals you see everyday. The ones that have owners and live in a house? Or the ones without owners and live in steel cages hating their life? I am against animal testing and it should be banned‚ it’s pointless and isn’t helping anybody‚ so many things could go wrong so fast‚ and finally the laws aren’t strict enough. Those are my reasons why I think that animal testing should be banned. First of all‚ Animal testing is pointless
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On average‚ 26 million animals are tested every year for commercial and scientific testing in the United States. Animals are tested to develop cures and treatments‚ check safety of human designed products‚ and toxicity of medications. Research on living animals has been done since at least 500BC. Although animal testing is wrong - because it is cruel and humane - there is no need for testing on poor innocent creatures when there are alternative testing methods. 95% of animals used in experiments are
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Should animals be used for cosmetic and medical testing? In our daily lives we use many products to help us go through the day. Although‚ we don’t always think about where these products come from and how they were produced. Most products sold in stores‚ effective or not‚ have been tested on animals. From medicine to shampoo and makeup‚ the lives of many animals have been taken away. It’s not acceptable for animals to be used for cosmetic or medical testing. It’s very cruel‚ it’s wasteful and
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