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Animal Testing Should Be Banned From Our Society

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Animal Rights Demand Protection
My thesis is that animal testing should be banned from our society altogether. Animal rights advocates argue that testing is a subject that has been argued countless amount of times in medical journals, and it has shown that it is a waste of animal lives. Subsequently, processing of a single drug requires more than 50 trials and use of as many as 12,000 animals. Moreover, regardless of the ethical issues that derive from animal testing, the infliction of physical/psychological distress on animals are resource and time deterring. Furthermore, animal experimentation provides a source of limited knowledge of how certain chemicals would behave in a human body. (Humane Society International).
Animal rights critics disagree. The National Association for Biomedical Research claims that every major medical advance is attributable to experiments on animals. Subsequently. approximately 70% of the American public supports the necessity of animal usage in biomedical research, since human testing is ethically unacceptable. Similarly, the 1997 USDA report, exposes the statistical data supporting the claim that most research (92%) was not painful to the animals involved. In the majority of cases (54%), the animals were “not directly exposed to painful procedures”.(National Association for Biomedical Research). In approximately 38% of cases, anesthesia or pain-relieving drugs were given in order to alleviate pain or distress. In about 8% of research

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