Animal Cruelty It’s dark, quiet, and you’re all by yourself. You whine and yell for help but nobody seems to hear you. The people you thought were your family abandoned you, left you all alone in a small confined cage. There is no place to use the bathroom, other than where you stand. The awful stench of your faeces grows worse and worse each second. The only food they left you with, you ate in the first day. Now the only thing keeping you alive is your desperation to eat and drink your own
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Pharmaceuticals Should Not Be Tested on Animals Various pharmaceutical companies claim that testing of their products on animals is indispensable because they require a complete living organism in the process of developing pharmaceutical products. Scientific evidences have proven that humans and animals differ with regard to metabolism, physiology, and anatomy (Portaluppi 101). Further evidences point to different reactions to pharmaceuticals and chemicals among animals sourced from different species
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Animal testing has been around since the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE from the writings of the Greek. They are used for research to develop the understanding of science, to establish more solutions to medical problems, and mainly the protection of people, animals and the environment. Animals are important for research because it allows the scientist to learn more information about human biology and health. With the information gathered, scientist can then develop new medicines. Animal testing is vital
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most organizations. Associations are polar, life is polarity. You will have the extreme in every one you meet. Peta for example, (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is a great cause solid beliefs that we, as a world, needs to protect the interests of animals. Who wouldn’t want to save puppies from cruel, unnecessary testing? However, when Peta activists line the streets in lettuce bikinis, people begin to see them as extremist. The NRA is the same way. When Charlton Heston expresses his
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various kinds of animal testing, however the most controversial testing that gets the most debate is biomedical research and product testing. In biomedical research "Animals are used to understand basic biology, as “models” for studying human biology and disease, and as test subjects for the development and testing of drugs, vaccines, and other biologicals to improve and advance human health" (Animals in Research Web). Along with that, product testing is the process of using animals in order to "predict
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its animals are treated." Famous quote said by Gandhi. Animal testing refers to the experimentation on certain animals such as rabbits, cats, dogs, mice, rats, etc. Animal testing is used to see how safe and effective the products of the company is making. Debates on animal testing have been happening since the beginning of the seventeenth century. Animals have been tested on since 384-322 BC and between 304-258 BC by Greek physician scientist Aristotle and Erasistratus. I believe that animal testing
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English 1120 1 October 2015 Should animals be used for scientific research? How many of you look at that pill you’re taking for that migraine or for that nasty sinus infection that has taken you down for the count and know that the animals used in the research are commonly subjected to force feeding, forced inhalation, withheld food and water, burned and given other wounds to study the healing process, the infliction of pain to study the effects and treatment? They have even killed by asphyxiation
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ability to talk but animals do not; therefore, it is our responsibility to treat them fairly and protect the rights that every living creature should have. Animals cannot give their opinion, so they should not be used in lab testing. Also, animals should not be treated wrong because they cannot defend for themselves. Animals should be feel loved and not have fear from being hurt because they have feelings too. Animal cruelty is the failure to take care of an animal. (Animal Abuse and Neglect). Neglect
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Animal Experimentation “The heart of the issue is whether animals should be used for medical research” (Wright). This is very true whereas some find that animals and humans are seen as equals where others maybe not so much.Animal experimentation is starting to become a concerning issue to many. I believe that animals should not be tested on because humans are beginning to take advantage of animals, their animal rights and aren’t taking it into realization. Humans are beginning to take advantage
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Are animals really people too? Do they get married? Are they considered responsible for their actions? We give them names and human personalities on to them but we eat them. We domesticated and breed them for consumption and work tasks. We have used animals as tools for thousands years. All major civilizations use animals to eat or work or both. Animal rights activists will say that we do not need animal testing but we do. A large majority of scientists believe that animal testing is still
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