Should animals be used for scientific research and experimentation? From ancient times‚ humans have relied on animals for their survival either as food (sheep‚ cow) or for competition (horses) and companionship (dogs). As humans became more familiar to their environment‚ they then also started utilizing animals for attainment of knowledge dating back to the days of the great physician Galen (129-200 AD)‚ who used animals to exhibit that arteries contain blood and not the air (qtd. in Giridharan)
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Professor Sophie Sills English 240 December 16‚ 2011 Should Animals be used for Research During the past ten years‚ a major controversy over the use of animals in biomedical and behavioral research has arisen. The debate about using animals for medical testing has been ongoing for years. The struggle is usually between animal rights activists and scientist. I believe that animal testing is imperative to the progression of medical cures‚ procedures and drugs. Scientists have been solving medical
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Animals Should be used for Research Did you know that over 450‚000 people in the UK with Type 1 diabetes‚ rely on insulin which was helped created by rabbits and dogs? Animals are important for science and health. Scientist know that with the right research‚ any animals can help cure a cancer or disease. Animals like mice and rats can help with curing a lot of diseases and animals can be used to find out new scientific discoveries. Also‚ some animals have been used to find ways to help with science
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Animals should not be used for research Imagine an animal suffering‚ with no way to help itself. Imagine a human being forcing an animal to suffer and not doing anything to help. This is what happens when animals are used for research to test products that most people do use. Every year almost 8‚000 animals suffer from being used for research. Animals are subjected to burns‚ electric shocks‚ and other painful experiences that researchers subject them too. Animals are given diseases from the researchers
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Should animals be used for research? With the development of the science‚ laboratory animals are becoming more important in the scientific researches. Some of the scientists don’t think the animal testing is a perfect way to get the information. At the same time‚ many experiments need alive creatures to test and collect the useful statistics. Without the use of animals‚ we cannot get such success in medical science. One reason why people usually use animals‚ like the mice or small rabbits
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Peta‚ an animal rights organization‚ wrote in their article ‘Experiments on Animals’ that‚ “Each year‚ more than 100 million animals--including mice‚ rats‚ frogs‚ dogs‚ cats‚ rabbits‚ hamsters‚ guinea pigs‚ monkeys‚ fish‚ and birds--are killed in U.S. laboratories.” All different types of animals are put through so many different kinds of painful experiments all over the world. Animals should not be used in medical research because of the succession rate and the safety. It has been argued that animals
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Animals should be used in scientific research It’s commonly argued that animal testing has or hasn’t increased the average lifespan of humans by 23.5 years? Facts of Why animals are used in scientific research Over 100 million animals are used every year in the United States as models in biological and medical research to study human disease‚ injury‚ development‚ psychology‚ and anatomy and physiology. Research involving animals has played a vital role in virtually every major medical advance
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Abstract This research paper discusses the opposition side of my chosen topic “Should the animals be used for scientific research”. It will evidently elucidate why it is malicious for the animals to be used as scientific research. Animals cannot be compared to humans when it comes to finding out what product or drug is competent for human to use‚ because animals and humans have different hormones. It is also been proven with the drug thalidomide‚ that even though it has been tested on thousands of
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Should Animals be used in Scientific Research? Animal testing is a method of testing drugs and cosmetics on animals to predict the possible reactions on humans and to evaluate the products if they are safe for human use or not. While animal testing seems a beneficial practice‚ there is a hidden side that some people might not take in to consideration. Bentham “The question is not‚ "Can they reason?" nor‚ "Can they talk?" but rather‚ "Can they suffer?"” (‚ year). If animals can speak‚ only then
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monkeys‚ birds and other innocent animals endure physical and verbal abuse in labatories for animal medical research and experimentation. Their rights and freedom are seized‚ they weaken in pain as well as being carelessly handled to have unfamiliar products tested on them. These occurrences could well and truly lead to animal cruelty. Firstly‚ animals’ rights and freedom are breached when they are used in research. Any animal should receive respectful treatment. Animals and people are alike in many
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