Animal Testing Saves Lives Animals have been used for testing by scientists for many decades. The research that has been gathered from animals has surpassed anything scientists could hope for. So why would such a highly debatable topic arise from such great accomplishments? Scientists use animals to test a theory and then alter their theories based upon the valuable information gathered from each experiment. Animal rights activists believe that animals are used for pointless tests and suffer tremendously
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Replacing Animal Testing: Unrealistic The issue of whether or not animal experimentation should be used for research in medicine and science has been debated for years. After conducting research on both sides of the issue‚ I have found that we should not replace animal testing with alternative methods at the present time. The proposal to replace animal testing in medical science is somewhat unrealistic and would prove to be disadvantageous. There are four substantial reasons for this: animal research
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Should animal testing be banned? For many centuries people have experimented on animals. The two main reasons for doing this is first‚ to find out more about the animals themselves‚ and‚ secondly‚ to test out substances and procedures to see if they are harmful and decide whether it can be used on human beings or not. In the second category fall cosmetic products as well as medicines and surgical techniques. There is a growing consensus that it is not acceptable to test cosmetic products on animals
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Using live animals for medical purposes and drug testing should be prohibited because it is unreliable‚ wasteful‚ and also dangerous. Animal testing is defined as the use of animals for research to produce products and substances for humans to have different materials‚ like food‚ drugs‚ hair and makeup products. According to the Humane Society international‚ “ animals that are used in experiments are commonly subjected to force feeding‚ forced inhalation‚ food and water deprivation‚ prolonged periods
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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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Experiments on living animals arose in the early 17century. The history of animal testing is interesting aspects of what remains a controversial subject today. Animal testing has a major history oppressed with controversy‚ although most of these activities occurred as a response to increasing awareness regarding the fact of using animals for experimental purposes. Though animal testing may at certain times conjure up the image of dubious‚ the reality is that animal testing is performed in limitless
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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 can be dated back to the ancient times of the Greeks and Romans. Physicians would dissect animals with the pure interest to obtain knowledge. But even then‚ one such physician stated that he would rather use a pig as his subject because he wanted to‚ “ avoid seeing the unpleasant expression of an ape” (Monamy 9). The ethics of animal testing has always been questioned. Humans do not want to think of animals as on the same level of us. The similarity is terrifying and makes the cruelty
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world - animal testing. It’s on the news and in the media quite often‚ with organizations like PETA pleading for justice and conjuring up horror stories of animal mistreatment. While it is true that animal testing is ethically wrong‚ there are other issues as well. Animal experimentation should be replaced by more advanced technologies because it is inhumane‚ produces results that are inaccurate‚ and is scientifically limiting. First of all‚ animal testing is harmful and cruel to animals. When they
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Animal Testing: Necessary or Not? In the world today‚ innovation has been the trademark of the century and there are improvements in almost all fields: technology‚ entertainment‚ transportation‚ even in healthcare and medical treatments. These vast changes are not the result of some magic or luck; there are reasons that these benefits have occurred. In the medical field‚ expansion is rapid. An internet article for the Healthcare Network states‚ “29 medical-technology studies were adopted to the
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