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Guilty Government Practices: Animal Testing
Animal Testing
Heather R. Johnson
Ottawa University
OAD-31664
Fall 2 Semester 2013

Abstract With animal testing, the killing and harming innocent animals, being around for centuries with little change, will exploiting the facts that the public does not know about, help put an end to all the product and medication testing on animals?
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Animal testing has been around for centuries, when it really should be one of those “cruel memories” of things we have done in the past, but will not let in happen again in the future. Rats, Mice, Rabbits, and a whole slew of other animals are forced to endure massive quantities of testing substances or endure pain by having harmful chemicals applied to their bodies, even though the testing may …show more content…
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