different ways. Issues related to animal experimentation are commonly debated in society, since each year lots of animals are hurt and killed in laboratories. Testing on animals is a very controversial topic. Some scientists see the benefits of testing on animals, but there are also some who see that testing chemicals on animals is not necessary since there are alternative methods. Many reasons can be explained behind the fact that animals are constantly used for testing. Isn’t cruel to harm helpless
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Using animals in research and to test the safety of products has been a topic of heated debate for decades. According to data collected by F. Barbara Orlans for her book, In the Name of Science: Issues in Responsible Animal Experimentation, sixty percent of all animals used in testing are used in biomedical research and product-safety testing (62). People have different feelings for animals; many look upon animals as companions while others view animals as a means for advancing medical techniques
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How many of you have pets at home? Now, how would you feel if your pet was kept in a small cage without interaction with other animals? What if researchers shaved your pets fur off and then doused them with harsh chemicals to see if their skin will blister and burn? Or if you had a rabbit and chemicals were poured into his eyes to test the irritancy of the chemical? (Rhetorical Question). The chemicals burn like fire. (Simile). Remember that your rabbit does not have tear ducts and cannot wash the
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methods using animals. Many major discoveries have changed the medical field including antibiotics, insulin, vaccines for polio and cervical cancer; but there has been controversy on how these discoveries have been made. Many people believe that it is essential to use animals to research different drugs or chemicals to find the cause or cure to a disease, to make sure that the drug or cure is safe to use before it is tested on humans, and many people do not want to risk their lives testing an unknown
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Alvarez English 1A 09/28/2012 Animal Testing Right or Wrong? The number of animals killed each year in the United States, is from 17 million to 70 million animals. Even though, the Animal Welfare Act states laboratories must report the number of animals used in experiments; mice, birds, and rats are not included in this number over all. According to the Society of Animals, these animals are used in 80 to 90 percent of all animal testing. Animal testing may not directly affect people
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The number of animals killed each year in the United States alone varies between 17 and 70 million. The Animal Welfare Act (ACA) states that laboratories must report the number of animals used in experiments; yet mice, birds, and rats are not included in this figure. These animals are used in 80 to 90 percent of all animal testing. Because of this, it is impossible to calculate the exact number of animals used in such experiments (PETA, 5). Animal testing might not directly affect ordinary people
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Animal testing has been going on for far too long. Whether it is to test a new cosmetic or develop another medication, scientists have used animals as a way of testing out new drugs and products before they are used on humans. Each year animals are blinded, force-fed, genetically altered, injured and more. They are kept in tiny, uncomfortable cages just to test something new. These innocent animals are hurt for science and the results might not even hold true for humans. While some may think that
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Animal Testing Every year, 20 million animals are mutilated, blinded, scalded, force fed chemicals, genetically manipulated, hurt and killed for research and science. Three fourths of these animals die for medical purposes and the rest are killed for tests on various products. Mice, rabbits, guinea pigs, dogs, cats, and other animals are used for these cruel tests. Animal testing first started in the 1800’s for creating vaccines for children. The animals they tested on were monkeys, mice,
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Animal Testing “According to the US-based Foundation for Biomedical Research, 'animal research has played a vital role in virtually every major medical advance of the last century - for both human and veterinary health.” (Kristina Cook 2006). There are so many drugs have been made possible through the research done on animals. Animal testing made great benefits on human life and medical research, not only on the length of our lives but also the quality of our lives. This essay will provide some examples
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Ethical Dilemma One ethical dilemma retained my attention. We saw briefly during class a subject regarding animal testing for medical purposes. Should be allowed to test medical purposes on animal rather than human being? From Wikipedia, in the United Kingdom there are approximately 45-70 millions cats and 40 millions dogs. It is also estimated that 3,000 cats and dogs are born every day and 4,000 rats every hour (derelictlondon.com). In other words, I would rather say that if one dies spontaneously
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2014 English 1301 Dr. Lopez Animal Testing “Every day in countries around the world, animals are fighting for their lives, these are mutilated and confined to tiny cages so that we can kill them in outdated product tests for cosmetics, personal-care products, and household-cleaning products. These animals are burned, blinded, poisoned, electrocuted, strangled, and tested on all in the name of “science”’ stated by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (1). Animals are abused and mistreated on
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March 2014 Necessary Testing Without a doubt animals are important to humans and human treatment towards them has become a major issue in society in the last few decades. Animals have been mistreated by humans severely and animal cruelty has become a great topic and has gained much awareness in today's society, to the point where people have learned to treat their animals or pets better and to denounce when they see animal cruelty to the law. Animal Testing may seem just as bad for some
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lottery. One hundred million years ago the world was in the Cretaceous time period. One hundred million is the number of animals that are killed a year from animal testing. Animal testing has occurred since at least 500 BC. Animal testing is cruel to the animals, also animal testing is not reliable for many reasons, and in the end not all the drugs are approved. Animal testing is not the most reliable way to test new products or drugs. “In 1937, a pharmaceutical company created a preparation of
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For the past two thousand years, animals have had scientific experiments done on them. Whether those experiments are morally correct or not, humans still tend to do all types of experiments for many different reasons. People have a tendency to overlook the pain and suffering animals go though. When there are several other options to test, it shows how there is a lack of consideration to the animals. Animal testing should only be used in non-harmful experiments or when no other resources are available
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ENGL 1100 (11:00) Professor Bates 4/13/15 Alternatives to Animal Testing Right now, thousands of rats, mice, rabbits, dogs, cats, primates, and other animals are being used to test cosmetics, household cleaners, industrial and consumer products. These animals are poisoned, blinded, and suffer cruel deaths. Although animal testing delivers more medical advancement, people, groups, and organizations in America debate whether animal testing should be banned; more effective and modern measures have become available to replace
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Animal testing, is it really ok? Do you know what has happened to that lipstick you brought from the shop the other day? Well That’s right, it has been tested on an animals. Who knows if that animal died or survived? Not you. Is it ethical to be testing products on animals? There are many ups and downs for testing on animals. I am going to tell you about some of these and by the end of this, I hope you have thought about this matter and decided whether it is ethical to test on mankind’s best
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belief that animals should never be tested on for cosmetic use is the most supported viewpoint. As science constantly advances, so do the alternative methods that may replace animal testing. While animal testing for medicines that directly relate to life-or-death situations may be easier to support, testing for superficial needs is not worth the torture and cruelty done to animals. True understanding of what testing goes into products shows the often overlooked injustices plaguing animals; blissful
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Against Animal Testing Humans guarantee each other many rights including happiness, dignity, health care, employment, voting, and free speech. These rights come in to question when taking away non-basic interests, such as comfort or quality of life, or losing interests that lower a quality of life. We then create a system in which we must choose which beings deserve and do not deserve certain treatments to meet our own desires. This is why some companies and organizations have begun to create
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experiment on animals, and the answer is: ‘Because the animals are like us.’ Ask the experimenters why it is morally okay to experiment on animals and the answer is: “Because they are not like us’. Animal experimentation rests on a logical contradiction’”. Each year over 100 million animals die in laboratories in the United States (Peta). These deaths alone are just happening in the United States. These innocent animals die because of all kinds of testing and experimentations done on them. Animal cruelty
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Animal Testing Taylor Whitehead ENGL 0870 E02 Ms. McNeese December 2, 2013 Many products today require companies to test their products regularly and securely. They test their products in plenty of ways. The worst controversial way is animal testing. Animal testing has grown every year it has been in use. Activist groups are forming in an alliance to try and stop these companies from hurting innocent animals. Although some people think that animal testing and research is
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Animal Testing, Inhumane or Not? By: Chris Persaud Imagine unsafe chemical compounds used recklessly on innocent animals, causing illness and even death. Just for the purpose of creating a new perfume. Sadly, this is the truth behind a lot of big named make-up and perfume companies, as well as other companies using potentially dangerous chemicals. To test the chemicals animals are used to experiment and modify said chemicals. Various pains and afflictions are thrown at these animals in the name of
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Outline: Animal Testing: Necessary and Humane in Modern Practice History of Animal Testing Diseases Treated in Animals Parvo, Leukemia, Rabies Diseases Treated in Humans Polio, Anthrax, Smallpox Laws Governing Testing FDA Guidelines IACUC Negative Aspects of Testing Loopholes in Law Alternatives to Animal Testing Conclusion Animal Testing: Necessary and Humane in Modern Practice The struggle against sickness and disease is not over, yet medical progress is being threatened by activists
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Introduction In recent years, issues related to animal testing has been a commonly debated subject and frequently discussed, particularly in the media. It is often said that animal testing should be banned because it is cruel. On the contrary, the opponents said that the animal testing has contributed to human world. Therefore, animal testing is a deeply divided subject with a great deal of opinion on both sides. An estimated 23 million animals are used every year in the world for scientific research
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A Test to Die For Animal experimentation is an ever growing issue of modern culture and just like many debates one side is labeled the hero and the other a villain, but in the case of animal testing it's not so black and white. There are many good reasons to be against animal experimentation like in reference to the methods of testing or animal rights but for most the reason is that of moral or personal. And in many cases most people choose to be against animal testing before they even consider
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Scientists should seek different alternatives to animal experimentation. Science and technology has had so many advances in recent years, that there must be other alternatives that allow animal testing to stop being necessary. Options such as experimentation on human stem cells may be a way to experiment without hurting and killing animals. Another option is the creation of computers or robots that would have the ability to simulate human reactions to products or chemicals substances. People just
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whether or not animals should be used for scientific experimentation. More than 2.5 million live animal experiments were authorized in Great Britain in 2000. This number has halved since the 1970s (Animal Port). Yet many protest groups and activist have arisen to try and put an end to the use of animals in scientific experimentation. The problem with this is that they don’t realize how much it has helped us over the years. Even though many people disagree I support animal testing because it is very
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Animal Testing Testing on live animals should be illegal. This is because; testing on animals is harmful and inhumane, there are alternate test subjects rather than animals, and animals and humans are different, so the testing done may not actually prove safe on humans. Animals are not the only subjects that could be tested on for beauty products or cleaning products; there are other, and more humane ways to test products. For example, instead of testing a living being, try using a human
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Animal Testing for Cosmetics, Why It Should be Ban Louise Craig Composition II: English 1200 S04 Joseph Walker 10/14/14 Animal testing began the first quarter of the twentieth century according to Murnaghan, I. (2010, July 20). We began testing on animals because there was an incident where a woman lost her eyesight after applying mascara, which forced the Federal government to create the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. The Act was passed by the federal government in 1938, which made it
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Safety first. Testing products is a great way to make sure that what people are using is not harmful to them, but how do we truly know if it is safe? Companies are testing their products on something we are completely different from. Animals and humans are very different and can react differently to the same product. Animal testing causes more harm than good. It is also a huge waste of money, the experiments are always flawed and they are never completely safe. Drugs that pass animal tests are not
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The Truth About Animal Experimentation Millions of animals are used in scientific and medical research, including mice, rats, rabbits, primates, cats, dogs and other animals. They are locked inside cold barren cages in laboratories across the country. Unfortunately all they can do is sit and wait in fear of the next terrifying and painful procedures that will be performed on them. More than 100 million animals every year suffer and dies in cruel chemical, drug, food and cosmetic
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