delightful image right? “An estimated 26 million animals are used every year in the United States for scientific and commercial testing. Animals are used to develop medical treatments‚ determine the toxicity of medications‚ check the safety of products destined for human use‚ and other biomedical‚ commercial‚ and health care uses” (ProCon 1). It is unfair to sentence so many animals to life in a laboratory cage and to cause
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test harmful material and chemicals on animals because they are not human beings. Animal testing is wrong and should be illegal because it is cruel to the animal‚ the tests are not always accurate and there are alternative ways to test products that do not need to be tested on animals. Testing on animals is cruel. It is cruel because it is subjecting animals‚ that feel like people do‚ to extreme pain and torture. As reported by PETA‚ “U.S. law allows animals to be burned‚ shocked‚ poisoned‚ isolated
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I. Unethical a. Animals cannot give their consent to be a test subject. b. Animals have feelings that aren’t recognizable. c. Robin Williams passed and the Gorilla he had been working with named Kok‚ became depressed. After learning sign language‚ Kok signed the word crying showing how sad she was by the death of Robin Williams. d. Many animals are tortured with burns‚ forced to accept these drugs with unknown results‚ and restrained for long periods of times. e. Animal testing is immoral and even
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Animal testing is a major debate in today’s society‚ but it is not just a problem of today. Animal testing dates back the 1800’s when Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory served to suggest that animals could serve as effective models to facilitate biological understanding in humans. Other cases of animal testing include psychological experiments such as the one by Ivan Pavlov in the late nineteenth century. He conducted experiments on dogs to demonstrate how dogs could be conditioned with regards
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An issue that is being discussed is whether people should promote animal testing. Certainly‚ animal testing can be successful sometimes in saving lives but I believe that it is more important to think about animals dying than people being saved because usually it is unsuccessful which basically results in animals dying for no good reason. In other words‚ I believe that animal testing should not be allowed because it results in poor test results‚ is cruel and inhumane‚ and may mislead researchers
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Cosmetics shouldn’t be tested on animals. * Our furry little friends get to try out the newest cosmetic finds before they reach the counters of stores. Poor innocent creatures suffer for our vanity. Beauty shouldn’t be linked to pain. Change slide * Companies instead of using non-animal tests‚ choose to use animal tests because their results can be manipulated. * Since the 1960s‚ animal testing has been a routine step in getting shampoos‚ lipsticks‚ mascaras‚ hand lotions and many
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The use of animals for the scientific experiments: For years universities‚ pharmaceutics companies and medical schools have been using animals for experiments. I think that animal testing is unacceptable for various reasons. Small animals like hamsters‚ mice and rats are usually kept in plastic boxes about the size of a shoebox. Several animals live in one box. Larger animals like dogs‚ cats and primates usually live in wire-cages. Most of animals stay in their cages all the time except
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Did you know that‚ there are more then 115 million dogs‚ cats‚ rabbits‚ monkeys and other mammals that suffer and die each year due to animal testing. Do you agree that these animals should be killed? I am going to be talking to you about why we should stop supporting companies that do animal testing. I believe that it is appalling and disgusting to do animal testing for human experiments. Imagine living inside a locked cage without any control over any aspect of your life. You can’t choose when and
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Experimentation on animals was meant to provide innovative advancements to the development of drugs and safety of products. However‚ the use of animals in laboratory tests no longer fulfills its original purpose. While it is difficult to deny the medical advances that have been made possible due to animal testing‚ there are alternatives that are more cost-effective‚ reliable‚ and do not contribute toward the suffering of animals. Methods such as microdosing‚ in-vitro models‚ and in-silica computer
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Animals are used to test scientific developments and commercial products. New medical treatments are tested on animals to verify the toxicity of new medications or the safety of a product that will be used on humans. The health care and commercial industries also turn to animal testing for these reasons. They say animal testing has contributed to many life saving cures and treatments. Experiments in which dogs had their pancreases removed led directly to the discovery of insulin‚ critical to saving
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