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    Animal Experimentation is Animal Cruelty It is estimated that each year over 100 million animals in the United States are used for animal testing (ProCon.org, 2017). This is unlikely an underestimate as it is impossible to receive a correct count worldwide. Thousands of animals are to be euthanized from the complications they endure from testing. Animals are used to test scientific developments and commercial products. New medical and non-medical experiments are tested on animals to verify the harmfulness

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    These tests obviously do not happen for free. Animal experimentation is more expensive and profitable than most people would imagine. It is an international, government-sanctioned and funded, multi-billion dollar business (NAVS 1). The United States spends up to $14.5 billion annually on animal experimentation (“The Daily Caller” 1). It is argued that these billions of dollars spent on animal testing could provide a tax relief for Americans instead. It could also have a bigger impact, like assisting

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    Animal Experimentation is when researchers use non-human test subjects in their testing to see if products are safe prior to human and endangered animal use. Animal experimentation can also involve tracking behavior in animals after researchers give them substances. The use of animals in experimentation should be allowed because it can further knowledge on how to cure cancer and it is crucial for large scale epidemics. Animal testing can advance our understanding on how to treat tumors. Medical

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    some people argue that animal testing has played a vital role in medical industries however, it has been proven that the majority of animal experimentation has no significant impact or breakthrough that could be beneficial to humans. This makes us question the validity of these experiments, and if they truly have any benefits. This idea is supported by Dr. Bross , the director of biostatistics at the Roswell Institute for Cancer Research who states that the conflicting animal results that have been

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    Animal Rights: Animal Experimentation

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    Animal experimentation is the use of non-human animals in experiments. Animal experimentation also known as animal testing had established way back into the second century A.D. A Roman physician, named Galen started to perform endless animal experiments. (Safer Medicines.) On the other hand, the first major animal experiments occurred in the nineteenth century. Luis Pasteur administered anthrax to sheep. Anthrax is a bacterial disease that affects the skin and lungs in sheep and cattle, so Pasteur

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    100 million animals are used for research and experimentation on around the world every year. Apart from all the benefits of animal testing there are many good reasons which support banning the experimentations on animals such as: animal cruelty, selfishness, and danger of using the experiments result. Therefore animal experimentation should be banned. These days, animal testing has brought a lot of issues in the society. The first and foremost argument that is presented against animal testing deals

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    and off.” Animal experimentation is when live animals are forced to undergo a scientific experiment that will cause them pain, misery, anguish, or lasting harm. Different types of animal experiments include force feeding animals with dangerous substances, leaving animals in radiation, surgically removing organs to cause damage, forcing animals to breathe in toxic gases, and putting animals in terrifying situations to create mental illnesses. Common animals used in animal experimentation include, but

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    research centers have been using animals as a base of study. They have genetically modified conditions for animals in order to gain knowledge for treatments or human diseases. Animal experimentation is the use of non-human animals in experiments that are controlled by variables that can affect the animals biologically. The animals are used to test makeup products, drug products, or curiosity-driven experimentation. These are only a couple of areas where animals are used for the personal gain of

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    Animals go through experiments for human gain; therefore, the groups of people that love animals are taking up for them because the creatures do not have a voice of their own. Today in animal experimentation approximately 50 to 100 animals worldwide undergo experimentation each year (Driscoll). When animals are being experimented on they let out loud cries and the scientist can sit their and their heart not melt it is cruel and inhumane. The scientist do not care what happens to the animals, but

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    testing on animals. According to Professor Nuno Henrique Franco from the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology of the University of Porto in Rua do Campo Alegre, humans have based their medical research, and later chemical testing, on animal experimentation. The first experiments that were performed can be considered crude and a few were perhaps excessively damaging to their subjects, and a handful of later testing was for cosmetic purposes. Consequently, the lives of countless animals have been

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