Essay - Animal Testing is necessary Is it really necessary to take the lives of animals in the name of science and for the betterment of humanity? For animal rights activists‚ like People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)‚ the answer is no. PETA pressures labs into halting experiments‚ because they believe that animals are not to be used by humans for food‚ clothing‚ entertainment‚ or to experiment on (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals). Its stance is that any testing is painful
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Animal testing should no longer be practiced because it is unethical‚ the results can be misleading‚ and alternatives are available. It is widely known animal testing injures and kills many animals each year for the sake of the humans that may use the products. According to preventative medicine/public health specialist Aysha Akhtar‚ worldwide over 15 million animals are used in experimentation and often suffer‚ even though alternatives to animal testing exist. According to ProCon.org‚ “animals
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Animal Testing for Medical Purposes‚ is it Ethically Correct? This paper will discuss animal testing for medical purposes. It will begin by defining the process of animal testing and go through some of its history. It will discuss whether the testing of animals for medical purposes is just or unjust and evaluate which types of testing are ethically acceptable and which are not from a Utilitarian and Kantian viewpoint. It will conclude with evaluations of the different standpoints and state why
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Animal testing should it be illegal in the USA 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‚ and check the safety of products destined for human use. Animals that are used to test medical treatments or other scientific tests most of the time don’t survive‚ for every hundred medications tested‚ 92% of them fail‚ and 50% of the animals that got
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Animal Testing‚ Life Wasting Today‚ a much debated topic is whether animals should be used in medical experiments or not. Supporters‚ including professors‚ and research scientists in laboratory medicine‚ believe that using animals as experimental subjects is essential to drug research. In particular‚ they believe animal experiments help humans discover drugs that slow the progress of the human immunodeficiency virus. They think it is the most effective method to confirm the safety of the drugs
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million animals are used in animal testing every single year to further the understanding of species and the impact of different modern medicines. There are many organizations that are extremely against the use of these animals in medicine‚ saying that it is “cruel and inhumane”. Compare these 100 million to the 56 billion animals slaughtered for food for humans. Those 100 million almost seem like a small amount‚ don’t they? The animals used in scientific testing have contributed to many life-saving
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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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Animal Testing Essay Ellen DeGeneres said “ If you want to test cosmetics‚ why do it on some poor animal who hasn’t done anything? They should use prisoners who have been convicted of murder or rape instead. So‚ rather than seeing if perfume irritates a bunny rabbit’s eyes‚ they should throw it in Charles Manson’s eyes and ask him if it hurts”. Animal testing is the worst thing you can do to an animal. We use animals as pets‚ companions‚ and best friends. Animals are even used to test products such
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innovative ways to change. There are even laws and bans to help stop animal testing‚ but the effects of the test during and after are unbearable to think about for anyone or anything. Animal testing should be stopped. There are plenty of alternatives‚ laws and bans that should be better enforced‚ and that testing on animals is inhumane and immoral. There are more efficient‚ inexpensive‚ and
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5B EFSTerm 1/2012Topic: Animal testingIssue: Should animal testing be banned?Bùi Phi Hoàng.Teachers: Mark & Graham. | Introduction Annually‚ more than 100.000 animals are used for test product’s security included household cleaners‚ cosmetics and pharmaceutical products (PETA Fact Sheet). For many years‚ the application of animals has been considered to be a normal strategy in three primary fields: biomedical research‚ education and product safety evaluation. In 2009‚ it was estimated that
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