million animals are killed every year around the world for animal testing. This horrific number needs to be reduced. While there are not yet any adequate replacements for animal testing‚ it is unreliable‚ unfair and expensive. Animal testing is unreliable. For example‚ Dr. Richard Kluasher‚ the former director of the national cancer institute states that “ We have cured cancer in mice for decades and it simply didn’t work in humans”. This statement shows the unreliability of animal testing. Just because
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Animal Testing Animal testing or animal experimentation is the use of non-humans in experiments conducted inside of universities‚ medical schools and pharmaceutical and commercial facilities. The researchers study genetics‚ toxicity testing and cosmetic testing also animals are breezed for education and defense research. Animal testing should not be continued because the tests put animal through pain‚ some tests do not even work and there are alternative which protect animals that can be used instead
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happiness? Animals for instance have been a subject of discussion when it comes to rights due to obvious differences in character and species. But when we glance at what lies beneath our rights as human beings and compare them to animals‚ we may find that we’re not much different. In time‚ animals have been stripped of their rights and used to benefit human life through the process of animal experimentation or‚ animal testing. Around 20 million animals are subjected to this type of research annually
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Introduction: Experiments on animals for testing are causing a numerous amount of them to suffer from dehydration and depression. While tests may benefit humans‚ they still have a large impact on the lives of animals. Whether these animals are companions or from the wild‚ they still suffer from a multitude of experimental substances being tested on them. These tests can affect how the animal will act for the remainder of their lives. Scientists may think testing on animals is useful since they obviously
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"More than 100 million animals are poisoned‚ burned‚ crippled‚ and abused in other ways in U.S. labs each year."(#1video) Animal testing became a common method between 200-300 BC‚ these tests were often led by important male figures such as Aristotle. In 1242 Ibn al- Nafis used animals to test blood circulation‚ his theory of human blood circulation was later proven by William Henry many years later. In the 1660’s another scientist‚ Robert Boyle‚ theorized that living beings needed air to live‚
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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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Scientists have been using animals to conduct experiments and tests since ancient times. Over the years‚ the practice of using animals has been under fire by animal protection and animal activist groups. Using animals for drug testing has become an important part of scientific experiments but it has also led to the deaths of millions of animals. When animal testing goes wrong‚ it can harm the users whom it is supposedly benefiting. The use of animal testing should be abandoned because it does not
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Animal Testing Shouldn’t Be Banned The exploitation of animals in experimentation isn’t a new issue because it could be traced back to the fourth century BC when Aristotle and his contemporaries used to perform experiments on animals. Besides‚ in the twelfth century‚ the Arab physician Avanzoar used animals to test his new surgery techniques before performing them on humans. Today‚ due to the advancement of the medical field‚ physicians rely excessively on animal testing
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Animal testing‚ also known as animal experimentation‚ is the use of animals to view and control variables that affect their behavior and biology system. It has played a major role in biomedical research ever since the last century. Using animals in research that could protect humans from a disease‚ any kind of pain‚ suffering‚ and even death should be justified. One of the many reasons why it is justified is because it has helped medical fields come up with many treatments for diseases. Treatments
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Animal Testing is Necessary “Animal research and testing has played a part in almost every medical breakthrough of the last century. It has saved hundreds of millions of lives worldwide.” Joan Ryan. When most people think of animal testing‚ they usually think about injured‚ blinded animals that they have seen in pictures online or on TV. After seeing just a few of those images‚ most people are quick to side with banning animal testing. However what most people do not realize is how much animal
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