combat diseases. A major issue arising from these advances in science have manifested through the animal testing done in laboratories with the purpose of ensuring a drug’s effectiveness for humans. Though many may argue that animals fully merit their own rights to not be tested on, it is not taken into account how often animals are the best option for bringing revolutionary discoveries, since the help testing for drug safety and providing accurate biological feedback for the development of medicine. Furthermore
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cruelty to animals the only way? Animal cruelty is unacceptable, unfair, and needs to be stopped right away. It has increased in the past thousands of years and many groups like ”Animal Welfare Advocates” have been working hard to end brutal and suffering experiments. Animal testing is cruel, unfair and animals are just as important as any other life on this earth so people should protect them, they can find alternative ways to test products, and it is not always the same reaction between animals and humans
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¬¬¬Animal testing is always on the debate through the past century with the rapid development of technology and medication industry. Animals are used in generally three purposes Biomedical and behavior research, Education, and Drug and product testing. With the development of these industries, animal testing becomes a hot topic. On one side, people tries to protect animals since they think all the organisms are equal. On the other side however, scientist and some anthropologists who stand on human’s
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that are performed on the animals are not only cruel and inhumane, but they are also ineffective. Most people believe that animal testing is almost always accurate, which is why so many people are okay with it; however, that is not true. Several animals do not have the same diseases as people do and instead, the disease is artificially induced in the animals to mimic the diseases humans have. Time, money, and the lives of animals are being wasted. The use of animal testing poses a threat to the health
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INTRODUCTION The use of animals in scientific experimentation should continue to be fought against because it is morally wrong, there are alternatives to animal experimentation, and the unnecessary research it involves. The use of animals in experimentation has been a debate and a controversy for quite some time now. Many have strong opinions and views on this sensitive issue. That leads us to one question: Is it right? There are alternatives to animal experimentation, and they are addressed by
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David Sanchez April 27, 2008 Animal Cruelty Imagine being a spectator of the most gruesome and inhumane act known to man. Imagine staring deep into a dog’s eye, a dog that is about to embark on the journey of his life. For many animals, including dogs, cats, and farm animals, death is the only destination listed on their life itinerary. Throughout the United states and the rest of the world, animals are being gruesomely cut up and skinned, being experimented on for research, and mainly being
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70 million animals scalded, force fed chemicals, genetically manipulated, hurt and killed in the USA alone. Is this really necessary? I believe that this torture is cruel and horribly selfish and barbarian. Not only are we harming innocent animals when there are many other valid ways of experimenting but everyday animals are being brutally killed for experiments that aren't even proven to give valuable, reliable results. Animal experimentation is a universal issue which provokes much controversy
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Animal Rights Almost all of society grew up eating meat, dressing in leather, and going to zoos and circuses. Many families bought their pets from pet shops and breeders, rather than adopting one from a shelter. The world lives on eating McDonalds cheeseburgers and wearing UGG boots for fashion. Animal rights is the belief that animals have a right to live free of human use and exploitation. These rights are the philosophy of allowing non-human animals to have the most basic rights living up to
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Animal Testing and the Harmful Processes Animal testing has been around for a number of years, yet the medical field can’t seem to catch up to the cosmetic field in testing technologies. Humans should put an end to animal testing. Animals’ perception of time makes the pain they are put through inhuman at best. Animal testing is often just previously done tests that already haven’t worked, making testing redundant and a waste of time. Animal testing is unnecessary with computer programs and human
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What is animal experimentation and why is it important? The use of animals in scientific research has greatly contributed to the medical and educational progresses that were achieved until now. There is a long history of using animals in scientific research, along with it a debate concerning its moral and ethical justification dates back to the moment, when animals were first used. Attitudes towards testing on animals scoped from absolute acceptance to absolute rejection and this seemed
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