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    Benefits of Animal Experimentation Animal Experimentation has been used for thousands of years from early Greeks to modern day physicians. Animal Experimentation is not only beneficial in gaining knowledge on diseases, but can also help to discover cures. Animal testing is not a very new idea, and has been performed for a large portion of history. Some of the earliest experiments can be traced back to early Greek physicians and scientist such as Aristotle and Erasistratus who did tests on living

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    Animal Experimentation Over 100 million animals get burned, crippled, poisoned and abused in United States labs every year. Animal experimentation or commonly known as animal testing, is where scientists test their chemicals and products on animals to make sure it is safe for human use. Animal testing should be used because it's not only harming the animals it's costing a lot of money and animal lives.Animal testing should not be used because it harms the animals. Some tests involve killing pregnant

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    Every year, over a million animals are tested on across the world. Animal experimentation is one of the most controversial issues. Animal testing is the use of non-human animals in research and development projects, especially for purposes of determining the safety of substances such as foods or drugs. Some people believe that animal testing is unnecessary and there are more efficient alternatives. Others believe that animal testing is crucial to the development of new products and cures. According

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    Animal experimentation has been a big controversial topic for several years, breakthroughs in medicine have happened because of animal experimentation. Animal experimentation is unethical. Also animals are being used in biomedical experiments, the business is highly unethical in all of the rules it breaks, and morals codes (Peggs, 2015). Additionally a study conducted by Beauchamp and colleges (2015) shows the inefficiency of animal experimentations in helping humans through misleading findings,

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    Animal Experimentation No doubt, we all love our products whether it be beauty, medicinal, or cleaning purposes. Of course they satisfy our needs and maybe even go above and beyond and just make the smallest difference or the biggest in our lives by improving or making things easier. Ever wonder how these products go about being made? Probably not. This however is something we should consider paying close attention to. Behind the scenes of our most favorite products is the cruel, silent methods

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    The controversy on whether animal experimentation is morally right has grown greatly since the 1980’s. For cosmetic and scientific purposes, animals have been used as variables to hypothesize how a certain product or drug would react on or in a human’s body. Cosmetically, animals are bred and used to test skin and eyewear products. This includes shampoos, hair conditioners, deodorants, makeup products and creams. Scientifically, animals are used to understand medical drugs, diseases or viruses. While

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    For centuries, the ethics of animal experimentation in the biomedical field have been questioned. The primary concern is whether the animals used in research outweigh the pain the animals endure. Animal rights activists will argue that there are new alternatives, which are more accurate than animal testing. The success of animal trials has continued the use by scientists within the medical field. Additionally, testing on animals eliminate harm to humans. The first Animal Cruelty Act was created in

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    grabs the cowering creature despite its desperate struggles. Not long after, the rat is dead, another victim of animal experimentation. While there are some benefits of testing animals for medical purposes, there are also alternative means that are possible and could be even more effective. Scientists and researchers around the world claim that many people owe their health to animal research. Several noteworthy medical advancements, such as the polio vaccine, insulin for diabetes, and antibiotics

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    numerous animals to sustain their life and to keep their species. They used animals to hunt other animals or they use them to protect themselves. Sometimes they eat the hunting animals if they fail to hunt other animal. They also used animals to acquire knowledge. They learned biology through dissect animals and they also learned pharmacology through test medicines on animals. However present day, people start to ask question about ethics of animal testing. Some groups of people say that animal testing

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    Animal Experimentation has a long history for the use of humankind and animals are being used in a large number to study and develop drugs for the diseases that human beings suffer from. “Between 17 million and 22 million animals are estimated to be used annually in the United States in research, education, and testing and about 85 percent of these are rats and mice, and less than 2 percent are cats, dogs, and nonhuman primates (Office of Technology Assessment, 1986)” (National, R. C. S. 1988, p

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