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Animal Testing Outline

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Let me begin by telling you what animal testing truly is in a more detailed summary. Animal testing, well known as animal experimentation, animal research and in vivo testing and is the use of non-human animals in experiments that seek to control the variables that affect the behavior or biological system under study. It's not as ideal as the companies make it out to be its a horrible, cruel way to do animals for beauty and medications. Now let me tell you the truth about how animals are done to keep your beauty and medications safe. There are and have been millions of mice, rats, rabbits, primates, cats, dogs, as well as other animal that are locked inside barren cages in laboratories across the country. They have to languish in pain, suffer …show more content…

After enduring a life full of horrendous amount of pain, as well as loneliness, and terror, almost all of them will be killed. In the U.S. more than 100 million animal suffer as well as millions in the U.S. die every year in horrible chemical, drug, food, and cosmetics test as well as in medical training exercises and curiosity-driven medical experiments at universities. There are many animals that suffer and die in classroom biology experiments and dissection, even though modern non-animal tests have repeatedly been shown to have more educational value, save teachers time, and save schools money. Exact numbers aren’t available because mice, rats, birds, and cold blooded animals who make up more than 99 percent of animals used in experiments are not covered by even the minimal protections of the Animal Welfare Act and therefore go …show more content…

In experiments in which dogs had their pancreases removed led directly to the discovery of insulin that is critical to be able to saves the lives of diabetics. There are several vaccines like the polio vaccine that are tested on animals that do reduced the global occurrence of the disease from 350,000 cases in 1988 to 27 cases in 2016. Animal research has also contributed to major advances in understanding and treating conditions such as breast cancer, brain injury, childhood leukemia, cystic fibrosis, malaria, multiple sclerosis, tuberculosis, and many others, and was instrumental in the development of pacemakers, cardiac valve substitutes, and anesthetics. Chris Abee, Director of the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center's animal research facility, states that "we wouldn't have a vaccine for hepatitis B without chimpanzees," and says that the use of chimps is "our best hope" for finding a vaccine for Hepatitis C, a disease that kills thousands of Americans annually. If thalidomide had been properly tested on pregnant animals, its potential for causing severe birth defects would have been discovered before the drug became legal for human

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