Replacing Animal Testing: Unrealistic The issue of whether or not animal experimentation should be used for research in medicine and science has been debated for years. After conducting research on both sides of the issue‚ I have found that we should not replace animal testing with alternative methods at the present time. The proposal to replace animal testing in medical science is somewhat unrealistic and would prove to be disadvantageous. There are four substantial reasons for this: animal research
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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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condoning animal experimentations. Many name brands‚ such as Clorox and L’Oreal‚ use horrible methods to test their products on animals. To be specific‚ roughly 170‚000 rabbits are bred and used purely for testing in the beauty industry and go through chemical blindness and fur loss because of a product meant for humans. How is that humane? Rabbits are not the only animals that are succumbed to the sickening procedures of experiments. Primates‚ cats‚ dogs‚ mice and rats are also some animals that are
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Animal Testing Imagine Jill‚ a human‚ was born into a world where she can’t enjoy her life. She is constantly being tested on and tortured for the sake of other beings that she does not even know. They try to tell her that it’s beneficial to the people in the environment. However they’re gradually killing her by smearing poisonous wastes on her body‚ exposing her to toxic fumes‚ suffocating her‚ etc. Is it really beneficial? And who exactly is benefiting from her torture and death? That is what
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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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Animal testing: Right or Wrong? The writer of the article on http://www.buzzle.com/articles/argument-against-animal-testing.html states that: Experiments on living animals are leading medicine further and further from the real cure Because animals react to both diseases and medications differently from humans they should not be used Animal research has not aided in the fight against any major disease There is no connection between animal testing and human health A totally new approach is
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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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