A cruel world of suffering and a short life in a cage are what animals in testing have to endure everyday. The effects of animal testing may be disturbing‚ but it is clear as to why people want to put an end to it. Some of us are aware of the effects of animal testing but don’t know why or how it happens. A variety of animals are used in testing‚ including: mice‚ hamsters‚ guinea pigs‚ farm animals‚ dogs‚ birds‚ cats‚ rabbits‚ monkeys‚ and more breathe in poisonous fumes and have chemicals rubbed
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Reasons Why Animal Testing Should be Banned The activity of animal testing is of cruelty and sometimes unscientific. Money spent on animal experimentation is wasted in many cases; due to inability in obtaining accurate results‚ and all this at the cost of the animals’ well-being. Here are a few arguments against animal testing that support the thought of banning this activity. Cruel Practices Animals are a soft target for human beings; it is however‚ not fair to take undue advantage of their
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quite intense. But animal testing is one of the biggest. It’s very important that we are aware that animal testing causes thousands of unneeded animal deaths and creates problems that negatively affect humans. According to PETA.org‚ more than one-hundred million animals die yearly because of animal testing. This is a serious issue that increases the chances of extinction in animals. Animals are tested for companies like Maybelline‚ Clinique‚ and Benefit. They all use animal testing on their products
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Professor Torres English 155 8 March 2014 Animal Testing Research Paper Have you ever visited an old cemetery? Have you also read the head stones and said to yourself wow the men women and children sure did die at a young age. I know I have and I am very thankful that I am alive today instead of back in the 1800 and early 1900s. The medical breakthroughs we have made as a society are incredible. It is all due to the fact that we allow and perform testing on animals. With all these discoveries we are living
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Animal Testing…Right or Wrong? In the 1880’s‚ Louis Pasteur conducted one of the most unpleasant series of animal experiments in the history of the fight against infectious disease. Unable to see the organism that causes rabies with the microscopes available‚ he convinced a skeptical medical community of the microorganism’s existence and also the possibility of vaccinating against it. He did this by doing work on rabbits and dogs. In 1885‚ after much heart searching‚ he tried out his rabies vaccine
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have recently came about have been due to animal testing. Animal testing has helped make many medical discoveries. Not only medical discoveries for humans‚ but also medical discoveries for animals. For practically every human part you can find an animal closely related enough to help make a discovery. Medical advances that have happened include helping with cancer research. The way rodents help with the advancement of the medical industry through animal testing. Their genetic‚ biological‚ and behavioral
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argument in today’s society is animal research and testing. There is much controversy surrounding the issue not only within biology‚ but general ethics as well. Some people feel that animal research is ethical because it furthers human well-being‚ as well as provides mechanisms to cure disease. Other people‚ however‚ believe animal research is not ethical because the treatment of the animal is inhumane‚ unnecessary‚ and non consensual. I personally feel that animal testing is very important in the world
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and experiment on animals to further our technologies. Often times it comes down to the worth of one creature over another. Our actions are justified by the simple concept of “who you would rather choose to die‚ a rat or a human?” According to Scholz et al. (2013) testing chemicals on vertebrates is essential to determine environmental hazards and to assess the risks. However‚ these tests are often considered inappropriate and raise ethical and financial concerns. Animal testing is not only unethical
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think that animal testing is useful‚ others think it should be stopped‚ and here I’m about to tell you a few reasons of why they think that. First‚ animal testing is cruel. Animals are strapped down to tables‚ and stabbed with needles time and time again. Many animals have died from being tested on‚ without any say in the matter. As Orlans says‚ the animals suffer from "vomiting‚ diarrhea‚ paralysis‚ convulsion‚ and internal bleeding. Since death is the required endpoint‚ dying animals are not put
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Animal Testing: The Good and the Bad Introduction: Animal testing refers to the experimentation carried out on animals‚ in which the animal is compelled to undergo a process that causes them pain or death. It is conducted to assess the safety and effectiveness of human resources such as medication‚ nutritional food value‚ cosmetics‚ as well understanding the complexity of the human body. Animal testing is often performed by injecting or force feeding animals with potentially harmful substances‚ exposing
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