Animal Testing: Good or Evil? Animal testing‚ also known as animal experimentation‚ or in vivo testing‚ often uses non-human animals in experiments to test the safety of products and has been a topic of heated debate for decades. Although some research uses animals only for natural behaviors observation‚ F. Barbara Orlans claimed in her book‚ In the Name of Science: Issues in Responsible Animal Experimentation‚ that more than sixty percent of all animals used in animal testing suffer from experiment
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Animals are used to test scientific developments and commercial products. New medical treatments are tested on animals to verify the toxicity of new medications or the safety of a product that will be used on humans. The health care and commercial industries also turn to animal testing for these reasons. They say animal testing has contributed to many life saving cures and treatments. Experiments in which dogs had their pancreases removed led directly to the discovery of insulin‚ critical to saving
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Though there is a growing case against animal testing‚ there are those who fully stand behind it. Their arguments defending the concept are most often centered around ethics of testing. For starters‚ the FDA mandates that all drugs go through a series of tests‚ most often on animals‚ before they are allowed to be released to the public for consumption (Ericson‚ 2014‚ a). With these laws in place‚ people claim that animal testing must continue to be accepted so that new drug developments can continue
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TESTING ANIMALS Research question: Should testing on animals be banned? Animals are used in experimentations in order to achieve new openings. Some people think that it is acceptable‚ while others argue that it is not ethical to sacrifice animals for science. Estimated‚ that every year 50-100million of vertebrates are used for experiments in the world. 1 Despite the importance of experiments‚ the number of animals and purpose of research are not under any control. Whether research is biomedical
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Animal testing can prevent humans from becoming ill or hurt. The companies won’t send out something until it shows no harm to the animal‚ that’s when it proves safe. But at what cost? They are hurting animals so that humans won’t get hurt. In some ways that might be considered heroic‚ but it isn’t fair to the animals. They don’t deserve to be hurt. Animal testing is cruel. There are alternatives to animal testing. One way is artificial human skin. It produces better results and is safer. It is made
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are many alternatives that exist to the use of live animals in research and most non-animal testing methods are more reliable and less expensive. Some of those alternatives are‚ “synthetic skin” called Corrositex‚ computer modeling‚ improved statistical design‚ and the Murine Local Lymph Node Assay (LLNA). “Another resource that exists to prove the viability and relevance of using non-animal testing methods is Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments (FRAME).” FRAME is located
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negatives on animal testing. Although some may believe animal testing is valuable‚ in reality‚ it is unreliable‚unsafe and inhuman. One compelling reason to put a stop to animal testing is it’s unreliable. In fact a drug tested safe on animals was released and turned out to be toxic.Surely if we are relying on animal testing to cure diseases‚ it should be almost 100% accurate so children or adults who end up taking that drug to help them with their illness don’t end up dead.Also animal and human
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Animal testing should it be illegal in the USA An estimated 26 million animals are used every year in the United States for scientific and commercial testing. Animals are used to develop medical treatments‚ determine the toxicity of medications‚ and check the safety of products destined for human use. Animals that are used to test medical treatments or other scientific tests most of the time don’t survive‚ for every hundred medications tested‚ 92% of them fail‚ and 50% of the animals that got
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stuck in you‚ or even being shoved into a small space with hundreds of other animals from the same species. People should not test on animals because animal tests are mortally wrong and inhumane‚ it can permanently injure‚ and ultimately animal testing can kill. Testing on animals is like testing on your baby sister‚ it is wrong and inhumane. “But precisely because our way of life depends on exploiting them‚ animals don’t really have any significant “rights” in America‚ although Congress passed
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Animal Testing Essay Ellen DeGeneres said “ If you want to test cosmetics‚ why do it on some poor animal who hasn’t done anything? They should use prisoners who have been convicted of murder or rape instead. So‚ rather than seeing if perfume irritates a bunny rabbit’s eyes‚ they should throw it in Charles Manson’s eyes and ask him if it hurts”. Animal testing is the worst thing you can do to an animal. We use animals as pets‚ companions‚ and best friends. Animals are even used to test products such
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