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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Persuasive Speech Subject: Animal Testing for Medical Purposes Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience that animal testing is only ok if it is used for medical purposes only. Outline I. Introduction: A. Attention-getting device: Do you know anyone that has or had cancer? Or some other deadly disease? These diseases could be cured with a little more research and experimenting. How about painkillers? Have any of you had surgery and been under anesthesia? B. Preview: Those
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Is Animal Testing All That Bad? A lot of people think that animal testing is bad‚ and that animals have rights too‚ and blah blah blah. Well‚ the truth is that animal testing has helped the medical field tremendously since the 1950s.Here are the pros of animal testing. Between 1950 and 2004‚ deaths from stroke and heart disease in the U.S fell by 72% and 63%. Also‚ AIDS related deaths in the U.S have fallen a big 70% between 1995 and 2005 alone due to animal testing! My point is‚ that no matter
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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: Good or Evil? Animal testing‚ also known as animal experimentation‚ or in vivo testing‚ often uses non-human animals in experiments to test the safety of products and has been a topic of heated debate for decades. Although some research uses animals only for natural behaviors observation‚ F. Barbara Orlans claimed in her book‚ In the Name of Science: Issues in Responsible Animal Experimentation‚ that more than sixty percent of all animals used in animal testing suffer from experiment
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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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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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