Animal testing is a major debate in today’s society‚ but it is not just a problem of today. Animal testing dates back the 1800’s when Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory served to suggest that animals could serve as effective models to facilitate biological understanding in humans. Other cases of animal testing include psychological experiments such as the one by Ivan Pavlov in the late nineteenth century. He conducted experiments on dogs to demonstrate how dogs could be conditioned with regards
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An estimated 26 million animals are being used for scientific and commercial testing. Animal testing is painful and unnecessary. Testing is cruel‚ unreliable‚ and sometimes dangerous to not just animals‚ but humans too. Animal testing is cruel and inhumane. Sometimes animals are used to make makeup products and medications with cruel techniques. In these experiment some animals are forced to eat something‚ forced to inhale‚ or even food and water deprivation. Animal may also be used to study
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An issue that is being discussed is whether people should promote animal testing. Certainly‚ animal testing can be successful sometimes in saving lives but I believe that it is more important to think about animals dying than people being saved because usually it is unsuccessful which basically results in animals dying for no good reason. In other words‚ I believe that animal testing should not be allowed because it results in poor test results‚ is cruel and inhumane‚ and may mislead researchers
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suffered so you can use these products? 100 million animals are put through unnecessary suffering‚ and they are dying because scientists are testing chemicals and products on them. So why is animal testing unethical‚ well‚ without animals‚ life wouldn’t be possible. We would all go extinct because animals help our ecosystem. Oxygen‚ clean water‚ and soils wouldn’t be possible without animals. Scientists often don’t even benefit from testing on animals. The test results often don’t come out how they expected
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it would be a cruelty to NOT engage in animal testing" (Michael Rivard‚ CNN News). Animal testing is a very large controversy. Some say animal testing is wrong‚ unethical‚ and unfair‚ but what would the world be like without animal testing? Who knows? Could there be many more fatal sicknesses? More life threatening diseases? Thousands of deaths from the common cold? In a few years‚ courtesy of animal testing‚ we could even have a cure for cancer! Animal research is imperative because there would
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Throughout many years animals have been used for human purposes‚ without consideration of the pain or discomfort that it may cause these creatures. Approximately one hundred million animals are used in laboratories annually world wide‚ and it is time for that to change. Not only is animal testing cruel and inhumane‚ but it is also not necessary‚ as it is not always accurate and there are now alternatives to test products. Some of these subjects are given random drugs or chemicals to test the affects
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argument in today’s society is animal research and testing. There is much controversy surrounding the issue not only within biology‚ but general ethics as well. Some people feel that animal research is ethical because it furthers human well-being‚ as well as provides mechanisms to cure disease. Other people‚ however‚ believe animal research is not ethical because the treatment of the animal is inhumane‚ unnecessary‚ and non consensual. I personally feel that animal testing is very important in the world
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Animals are used to test scientific developments and commercial products. New medical treatments are tested on animals to verify the toxicity of new medications or the safety of a product that will be used on humans. The health care and commercial industries also turn to animal testing for these reasons. They say animal testing has contributed to many life saving cures and treatments. Experiments in which dogs had their pancreases removed led directly to the discovery of insulin‚ critical to saving
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are we treating animals the way we do? Well‚ it’s illegal to give people new medicines that have not been tested yet‚ but it’s not illegal to test them on animals! How many times has it ran through their heads that animals feel pain‚ to make innocent animals like dogs‚ cats‚ mice‚ birds and many more suffer for no reason other than to conduct cruel experiments on them. Animal testing is only another version of animal cruelty which is very illegal! People might think that animal testing is fine because
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and gentlemen‚ I would like you guys to have a think about this‚ without animal research‚ how long would it take for us to have a breakthrough in order for us to survive through small pox‚ rabies‚ malaria or any other severe diseases that had occurred in the past. If it weren’t for animal testing‚ we wouldn’t be all sitting here‚ enjoying our lives. Thank you all for listening. 10 In the case of using primates in animal testing‚ the National Research and Medical Research Council has stated‚ ‘Some
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