debate whether or not using animals in research is humane. An estimated 26 million animals are used every year in the United States for scientific and commercial testing. [2] Proponents of animal testing state that it has enabled the development of numerous life-saving treatments for both humans and animals‚ while opponents state that animal testing is cruel and often yields irrelevant results because animals are so different from human beings. Many different animals are used in scientific studies
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performed on animals include dropping chemicals in the animal’s eyes. Animal cruelty is when someone hurts an animal or does not care for an animal responsibly. Animal testing is basically that‚ so‚ technically‚ animal testing is animal abuse. Animals should not be experimented on because the testing is somewhat like torture and they are innocent. Although huge developments have been made with animal testing‚ about 90% of successful animal testing is not successful when used on humans. Animals should not
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November 2012 For the Love of Animals Most households today have a beloved cat‚ dog‚ rabbit‚ fish‚ or other pet of some sort that they unconditionally care for and protect. What if your pet had ended up in a laboratory‚ forced to undergo painful experiments‚ instead of in your care? Unfortunately‚ that has been the fate of millions of animals every year dating back since before the nineteenth century. Researchers believe they are helping people by putting animals through these cruel experiments
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Cosmetic testing on animals The first test was designed in the 1920’s and it was developed to test the toxicity of certain products. Testing cosmetics on animals in the United States is very common. About a thousand mice‚ guinea pigs‚ rats and rabbits undergo pain or die each year. Animal testing is different in some circumstances. Animal testing involves the inability to consent. It involves pain‚ suffering‚ and discomfort under certain situations. Researchers aren’t fully able to block out the
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Animal Testing: contradictory perspectives and the balance between them A long time ago‚ animals were used for numerous purposes‚ and one of those uses is utilising them in scientific studies which known as "Animal Testing". According to Oxford dictionaries‚ animal testing refers to experiments involving the use of animals. As reported by the national centre for biotechnology information (2011)‚ animals were used regularly in scientific biomedical researches in the past by Greek and Arab physician
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Animal Testing Since 2002‚ over 1 million animals that the USDA collects numbers on‚ which includes dogs‚ cats‚ sheep‚ hamsters‚ guinea pigs‚ and primates‚ have been tested on. Since then‚ that number has increased to approximately 1.4 million. This excludes all rats and hamsters used in testing‚ which normally make up 90% of testing. This percentage‚ however‚ remains only as an estimate because US laws do not require scientists to record how many rats‚ birds‚ and mice are used. Cages for theses
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samples in an animal laboratory. The things people take granted for such as makeup‚ hair care products‚ medicines‚ and perfumes are productional objects that were all once tested to be sure they were safe for human use. The truth about what happens inside laboratories is something that hasn’t been uncovered to the public eye. There’s a concept of both animal cruelty and animal testing but in all reasoning‚ they have the same effect towards the innocent animals. The use of laboratory animals are mostly
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Animal Testing Using Animals for testing is wrong and should be banned. They should be entitled to the rights we have. Every day humans are using defenseless animals for cruel and most often useless tests. The animals cannot fight for themselves therefore we must. There should be stronger laws to protect them from laboratory experiments. Although private companies run most labs‚ experiments are often conducted by public organizations. The U.S. government‚ the Army and Air Force in particular
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One! The issue on whether we should allow or not in Experimenting animals has been widely debated in our community recently. It is an important issue because it concerns misunderstanding and misleading data. Varity of different argument have been put forward about this issue but it is strongly agreed by most of the community that experiment on animals should be stopped. Scientist researches say that animal testing is the future to finding cures and helps them figure out what will work and
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Administration and its relationship with animals. It brings up the idea that maybe we value animal’s lives less than our own and the hierarchy which has become earth. Although there are some flaws in the way that the FDA regulates animals‚ there is also proof that they are putting in some sort of effort. From food to animal testing‚ there are many ways in which the FDA can come across some sort of backlash. The question remains; does the FDA protect animals?
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