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Pros And Cons Of Animal Testing

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Tests Are For Students-Not Animals Animal testing; appealing or atrocious? Each year, more than 100 million animals are experimented on and killed in laboratories for medicinal training, classroom lessons, and chemical, drug, food, and cosmetics testing. Animals are not objects. Many Americans fight over the pros and cons of this two-sided argument. Although animal testing may further advance the medical field, scientific experimentation on animals is unfavorable among a large portion of the American population because these creatures are imperfect analogs for the human body, the process is wasteful in terms of money and the lives of the creatures, and the testing of innocent, guileless animals is now considered archaic by most. Animals are capable of experiencing fear, pain, and worry. Although certain animals are significantly similar to humans, they are completely different creatures in terms of being considered something to test on. Paul Furlong, Professor of Clinical Neuroimaging at Aston University states in an article published by procon.org, “It's very hard to create an animal model that even equates closely to what we're trying to achieve in the human." The website continues to says, “Animals are very different from human beings and therefore make poor test subjects. The anatomic, metabolic, and cellular differences between animals and people make animals poor models for human beings.” Since animals that are experimented on have a different bodily

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