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    Abraham Lincoln once said,” I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.” Why is this ideal not more recognized? The usage of these animals in scientific and cosmetic experiments has been traced as early as 500 BC, and it's still unsettling. Using animals like this is inhumane and has the potential to harm the animals. Also, experimentation on these animals doesn't necessarily benefit people and can be unsafe to them. As to the inhumanity and

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    Animals suffer just as people do. In 2009 animal experimentation was the cause of over 1.13 million animals, excluding small rodents, suffering in U.S. Laboratories (U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service). Animal experimentation is unethical, unnecessary and expensive; alternative methods of testing should be utilized. It is unethical to use the cruel methods of animal experimentation for our own benefit alone. The animals used in research range from birds

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    Animal Experimentation is the use animals in scientific studies. At Least 90% of experiments in animals fail in humans. Therefore there really isn’t a purpose to animal experimentation if it isn’t accurate. Animal Experimentation should be terminated because it is old fashioned, bad science, and unethical. Archaic means very old/old fashioned. Using animals to experiment for cosmetics and pharmaceutical products isn’t “in” anymore. According to Paula Moore scientists can replicate human organs on

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    types of animals and respect them as equals on their shared territory. Animals are not treated as equals and therefore the animals are suffering from the harm that humans are inflicting on them through animal testing experimentation. These acts of animal experimentation have caused a decrease in the number of some species of animals, while others have broken several rights that animals have and are protected under The Animal Welfare Act. Animal experimentation is wrong because people use animals for beauty

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    Animal testing is also known as animal experimentation is the act of testing drugs, chemicals, cosmetics and acid on animals such as; dogs, cats, rats, mice, ferrets, hamsters and monkeys for many purposes. Today I will be focusing on cosmetics. Cosmetic companies create makeup, lipstick, foundation, blush, highlighters etc. All of these products are tested on animals before use on humans and I believe that this is wrong and should be banned in all countries. Firstly, animals have been tested on

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    For thousands of years animals have been used as research subjects, but with the advancement of science and society, animal experimentation has morphed into a controversial bioethics topic. Animal experimentation is the use of animals in scientific research. This experimentation ranges from testing pharmaceuticals on rats to measuring the elasticity of tendons in rabbits to implanting mechanical devices in calves. And while the FDA has dozens of guidelines to keep animal testing as ethical as possible

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    Animal experimentation was a crucial in the development of open heart surgery, organ transplant, treating diabetes with insulin, and many other things.( Animal experimentation. Opposing viewpoints resource center. Web .2 mar. 2015) The California biomedical research associations “CBRA” say that most medical breakthroughs in the last century have resulted directly from animal experimentation .Animal experimentation also led to the discovery of insulin, to some major advance in breast cancer. Animal

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    Animal experimentation is a big part of medical progress. Opponents of animal testing point out the amount of animals used and the different types of animals used but if you look at it, it’s all for a good reason. Animal experimenters don’t do this just to do it. It’s for a purpose. There are thousands upon thousands of medical situations that couldn’t have been done without animal experimenting. Animal suffering is pointed out but for the most part animals go without feeling any pain. Animal experimentation

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    every hour, every minute, every second. From animals that can be our pets to wild ones. We do this so we can test products that humans will use. So we don’t risk ourselves or our family members. Although most think animal testing is great it’s clearly not because, these experiments kill these animals all the time, we’ve found better ways to do this testing of products, and it cost tons of money for our country. The worst thing about animal experimentation is the death. One of the many reasons for this

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    Experimenting on animals, with or against? Since many years, animals have always been one of the reasons for the survival of many human beings. They are used for experimental and medical research for finding new drugs and treatments and for the general advancement of health and medicine. There has been a controversy between animal rights supporters and scientists about the pros and cons to the practice of animal testing and whether it is helpful or it is just wasting the animal lives and

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