Animal Experimentation: The Good‚ The Bad‚ and the Ugly of Animal testing Animal testing is a touchy subject to many people. The idea of using animals for the gain of the human race is seen as immoral by some people‚ while on the other hand‚ some people see animal experimentation as an impactful part of the scientific field. Through animal testing there has been many discoveries that have highly influenced the medical field. In regards to animal testing‚ is it beneficial or is it an unnecessary
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debate whether or not using animals in research is humane. An estimated 26 million animals are used every year in the United States for scientific and commercial testing. [2] Proponents of animal testing state that it has enabled the development of numerous life-saving treatments for both humans and animals‚ while opponents state that animal testing is cruel and often yields irrelevant results because animals are so different from human beings. Many different animals are used in scientific studies
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Testing animals is not only cruel‚ torturous‚ and unfair but it also is pointless. Innocent poor animals are being captured‚ experimented on‚ and/or killed for our own selfishness. People assume that testing on animals is beneficial due to the fact that it has resulted in a few vaccines which work against certain diseases‚ and because it has been key to major medical advances but that is not always the case. Although there have been a few benefits‚ the majority of the time animal testing is ineffective
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performed on animals include dropping chemicals in the animal’s eyes. Animal cruelty is when someone hurts an animal or does not care for an animal responsibly. Animal testing is basically that‚ so‚ technically‚ animal testing is animal abuse. Animals should not be experimented on because the testing is somewhat like torture and they are innocent. Although huge developments have been made with animal testing‚ about 90% of successful animal testing is not successful when used on humans. Animals should not
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Cosmetic testing on animals The first test was designed in the 1920’s and it was developed to test the toxicity of certain products. Testing cosmetics on animals in the United States is very common. About a thousand mice‚ guinea pigs‚ rats and rabbits undergo pain or die each year. Animal testing is different in some circumstances. Animal testing involves the inability to consent. It involves pain‚ suffering‚ and discomfort under certain situations. Researchers aren’t fully able to block out the
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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
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Animal Testing: contradictory perspectives and the balance between them A long time ago‚ animals were used for numerous purposes‚ and one of those uses is utilising them in scientific studies which known as "Animal Testing". According to Oxford dictionaries‚ animal testing refers to experiments involving the use of animals. As reported by the national centre for biotechnology information (2011)‚ animals were used regularly in scientific biomedical researches in the past by Greek and Arab physician
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Animal Testing Since 2002‚ over 1 million animals that the USDA collects numbers on‚ which includes dogs‚ cats‚ sheep‚ hamsters‚ guinea pigs‚ and primates‚ have been tested on. Since then‚ that number has increased to approximately 1.4 million. This excludes all rats and hamsters used in testing‚ which normally make up 90% of testing. This percentage‚ however‚ remains only as an estimate because US laws do not require scientists to record how many rats‚ birds‚ and mice are used. Cages for theses
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Administration and its relationship with animals. It brings up the idea that maybe we value animal’s lives less than our own and the hierarchy which has become earth. Although there are some flaws in the way that the FDA regulates animals‚ there is also proof that they are putting in some sort of effort. From food to animal testing‚ there are many ways in which the FDA can come across some sort of backlash. The question remains; does the FDA protect animals?
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Poisoning‚ shocking‚ burning‚ and killing animals is all in a day’s work for vivisectors. If these atrocious acts were committed outside laboratories‚ they would be felonies. But animals suffer and die every day in laboratories with little or no protection from cruelty. Here are the top five reasons why it needs to stop: It’s unethical to sentence 100 million thinking‚ feeling animals to life in a laboratory cage and intentionally cause them pain‚ loneliness‚ and fear. It’s bad science. The Food
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