Should Animals be used in Scientific Research? Animal testing is a method of testing drugs and cosmetics on animals to predict the possible reactions on humans and to evaluate the products if they are safe for human use or not. While animal testing seems a beneficial practice‚ there is a hidden side that some people might not take in to consideration. Bentham “The question is not‚ "Can they reason?" nor‚ "Can they talk?" but rather‚ "Can they suffer?"” (‚ year). If animals can speak‚ only then
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Alexa Suppo Animal testing causes horrific suffering to animals and should be illegal. To begin with‚ animal testing should be illegal because testing produces negative effects on the animals. When locked up these animals suffer a tremendous amount of stress. The stress that most animal encounter in labs can affect the way experiments work‚ making the results meaningless. If under stress‚ they can have permanently raised concentrations of stress hormones‚ reduced concentrations of sex hormones
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was their “service animal” and it comforted them. I believe that the law that only allows certain animals to be service animals is fair‚ because of some animals having illnesses‚ and because some animals create an unhealthy environment. One reason I believe this law is fair is because of illnesses and diseases some animals carry. For example‚ the text New Service Animal Rules by Clare Mishica states that “The changes were needed to protect people from diseases. Different animals carry certain diseases
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Do you want to see animals abused and killed sometimes for nothing? Animal testing is flawed and can produce very unreliable results. Around 26 million animals are used every year for scientific and commercial testing. These animals are used to determine the toxicity and effectiveness of medications before they test it on humans. Therefore animal testing should be banned. First of all‚ research on animals is sometimes flawed because of biased scientists. According to pro-con.org “87% of the studies
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thought 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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Riva as the main character of “The Cage” exhibits many different traits of people. Two of these characteristics are exhibiting a strong belief system‚ and a feeling of family. Once the Nazis come‚ and she has been moved to the Ghetto‚ Riva continues to believe in her faith. When there are moments of humiliation‚ and tiredness she never gives up her faith. As for the feeling of family‚ the book’s first part very much focuses on her and her family. The book begins with her and her daughter‚ and then
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11/29/2011 Animals should not Be Used for Medical Testing Nowadays‚ animals are used for medical testing which is hurtful and not necessary. Tens of millions of animals are used each year in federally and privately funded experiments. Do animals feel the same pain that human feel? How do we know that other humans feel pain? We all know that we ourselves can feel pain. We know this from the direct experience of stubbing toe on a chair‚ or having finger slammed in a drawer. So animals are as same
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Should animals be used in medical research? The use of animals in laboratory research is a very well known debate. Many people wonder if the animals are treated well and if they are taken care of properly; however‚ if medical and scientifical experimentation were done in only human trials the knowledge and understanding of how drugs and procedures can affect human would be decades behind. That is why the use of animals in experimentation is a necessity in order to continue advancing medicine
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Animal experiments are always a controversial topic because of the moral issue. Most of the people who are disagreeing animal testing is because they believed that animal can feel pain like humans do. Animal testing in the United States is accessory to the federal Animal Welfare Act (AWA) [1]‚ passed in 1966 and amended in 1970 and 1976. In a recent article‚ Parliament [2] said that animal research is the use of non-anthropoid animals in experiment that’s explore to control the variables that affect
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Forget cruelty or animal rights‚ using animals to test our pharmaceuticals is outdated‚ ineffective‚ and a waste of money. New more efficient and cheaper alternatives have been found that could end animal testing for good‚ if only government would take the initiative. It’s frustrating to realize that we could have had better and more effective medication at a lower coast. Some medications that passed animal experimentation have been shown to be much more harmful to humans than the diseases they were
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