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Is Animal Testing Good Or Bad For Animals

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Since the mid-1920’s, animals have been poisoned and murdered for the purpose of testing cosmetics, and the effects of vaccinations needing approval from the FDA. Animals are treated as property by pet owners and are maliciously hunted and slaughtered by humans daily. Beagles, for example, are the most commonly used pets for scientific experiments because of their trustworthy, and friendly personalities. They study how beagles react under certain amounts of stress, and learned that laboratory dogs are much better at handling it since they were raised in a particular environment. Fortunately, the percentage of animal use in experiments has decreased by 6% since 2014 (Faunalytics.org). Animals, such as the beagles, have painful and stressful procedures for research, that can also have long lasting effects from these studies. Animals are given high doses of these chemicals such as lab rats by force feeding them. They can experience diarrhea, severe abdominal pain, seizures, paralysis, and bleeding from the mouth, nose, and genitals before they die (peta.org:product testing). Rabbits are used mostly for eye and skin irritation research. They have products leaked into their eyes and put onto their skin. Scientists then …show more content…

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