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Microdosing: An Easy Alternative To Animal Testing On Animals

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Pigs being shot, rabbits blown up, guinea pigs paralyzed with toxic nerve agent, and monkeys given smallpox. 100 million animals die in laboratories, dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs, monkeys, fish, and birds are killed in laboratories for lessons in biology, medical training, curiosity-driven experimentation, and chemical, drug, food, and cosmetics testing. Innocent animals are being tested on and killed every single day.
An easy alternative to animal testing could be computer modeling. According to “Alternatives to animal testing” these can predict the ways that drugs will react in the body. Research with human volunteers can also put an end to animal testing. Research with human volunteers uses a technique called microdosing. Microdosing is where they give the volunteers a very small one time drug dose and “sophisticated imaging techniques” are used to monitor how the drug behaves in the body. Microdosing replaces certain tests on animals and can help screen out drug compounds that will
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Animal testing is animals being operated on for the purpose of research and experimentation. This is called vivisection. The research is being done at many locations like private facilities, university and government laboratories. The testing and treatment of animals is a worldwide controversial subject. Some argue that animal testing has many benefits and other argue that animal testing is cruel. The people that argue that animal testing is beneficial say it helps us advance in medicine and protecting humans safety. Then the people that against animal testing say it's inhumane and animals should have rights. The animals have very little to no rights which is unfair. The animals are innocent and being tortured. As a result of animal testing, animals have to deal with a life of suffering and pain; therefore an animal testing ban is
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