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Animal Testing Should Be Banned Essay

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Each time you reach for a bottle of medicine, you do so without thinking of the tremendous amount of work that has gone into getting you that product, and possibly the lives that were spent doing so. Those lives being the ones of animals tested in pharmaceutical settings to assure the safety of the product you just swallowed. It is difficult to justify the use of animals in this way, but when put simply we make the choice between putting human life, or the life of an animal on the line. While businesses have searched for other methods of testing, there is no more accurate way of testing toxicology than through a live host. Despite it not being the most ideal choice to everyone, there is no better or more safe option, and animal testing is an absolutely necessary step in testing pharmaceuticals until we can find an equal replacement. Pharmaceutical businesses should continue testing their products on animals to ensure human safety, because the benefits of using these practices outweigh the negatives of releasing these drugs prematurely.
According to Rachel Hajar of the United States Library of Medicine, “animals have been used repeatedly throughout the history of biomedical research.” Such practices have been proven to save many human lives; in fact, we have records dating all the way back to ancient times. But as of late, this practice has undergone extreme criticism. An excerpt from Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology states that, “We believe that for the foreseeable

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