Animal experimentation is cruel and leads to the needless suffering and death of millions of animals. Public support for animal testing has been in steady decline since the 1950s. In 1949‚ the public support percentage was over 90 percent but in 2013 it declined to 57 percent (Ericson). According to Procon.org 95 percent of animals are not protected by the Animal Welfare Act. Also‚ Procon.org says 94 percent of drugs that pass animal tests fail in human trials. An estimated 26 million animals are
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diseases and illnesses‚ or even regular medicine doctors prescribe. But there are many that do. They use animals to test what will work‚ and what will not
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For many years‚ animals have been used in research both in the scientific and medical fields. In order to introduce new drugs into the market‚ they have to be tested first on animals in order to ascertain whether they are effective or not. Animal experimentation in this context defines the use of non-humans‚ mostly animals‚ to test new drugs and consumer goods such as cosmetics‚ pesticides‚ herbicides‚ food additives‚ among others (Taylor 120). Pharmaceutical companies and research institutions have
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Animal Experimentation i Should Animal Experimentation Be Abandon? Veronica Liang ESL 408C Marcia Rauch November 18‚ 2011 Animal Experimentation ii Research Paper Outline Title: Should Animal Experimentation be Abandon? I Introduction Thesis Statement: Animal testing is a debatable issue in modern society. Some people argue that animal testing should be kept due to medical benefits and research study conveniences. However‚ I think animal experimentation should be banned by refuting
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Animal Experimentation: Good or Bad? The controversy of animal experimentation in the cosmetics industry is one that was swept the globe and caused for a dispute of the morality of using animals to perceive the safety of certain products. While some people argue that new test animal experimentation is not always not always accurate‚ others provide evidence in which may deem animal testing unreliable. The effects of animal experimentation are clearly visible in the death rate of animals that
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Animal experimentation is procedures performed on animals for purposes of research into diseases‚ cosmetics‚ household cleaners‚ food additives‚ and pharmaceuticals. The most common species tested on are mice‚ fish‚ rats‚ rabbits‚ guinea pigs‚ hamsters‚ farm animals‚ birds‚ cats‚ dogs‚ mini-pigs‚ and chimpanzees. It is predicted that more than 115 million animals worldwide are used in laboratory testing every year (PETA) . Most people don’t consider that animals undergoing experimentation are being
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The Truth About Animal Experimentation Millions of animals are used in scientific and medical research‚ including mice‚ rats‚ rabbits‚ primates‚ cats‚ dogs and other animals. They are locked inside cold barren cages in laboratories across the country. Unfortunately all they can do is sit and wait in fear of the next terrifying and painful procedures that will be performed on them. More than 100 million animals every year suffer and dies in cruel chemical‚ drug‚ food and cosmetic
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Animal Testing Have you ever wondered how people figured out if medicine works? Animal testing‚ or animal experimentation‚ has been going on for a long time. It is the process of using animals with similar DNA‚ such as chimpanzees‚ to test new cosmetic and medical products to try and figure out how they will work on humans. It is a very controversial subject . Some people argue animal testing provides valuable information for people and new products; Animal testing needs to be stopped because it
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Should Animal Experimentation be justified? Animal experimentation is an issue that many think that just risen from nowhere‚ but actually it has a long brief history. It goes back to the earlier centuries where goats and pigs were dissected and when animal experimentation was used to learn more about the blood circulatory system and its processes first hand in the 1600s. Centuries later‚ the experimentations became a bit intensive and in-depth when French chemist‚ Louis Pasteur infected sheep
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Every year‚ millions of animals suffer through painful and unnecessary tests. Animals in laboratories all over the world live lives of deprivation‚ pain‚ isolation‚ and torture. Even though vast studies show that animal experimentation often lacks validity‚ leading to harmful human reactions‚ we still continue to use this method of experimentation‚ while many other less-expensive and more beneficial alternatives exist. Going beyond the issue of animal experimentation being morally wrong‚ this form
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