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    lot of different types of animals suffer through painful and unnecessary tests. An animal being used for scientific experiments is wrong because it is inhumane, expensive, and unpredictable. Animals in laboratories live lives of loss, pain, loneliness, and torture. Various studies have shown that animal experimentation often does not even help humans. Some even lead to harmful human reactions to the drugs being tested on animals. Yet we continue to use animal testing while other courses of action

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    Animals are the main experiment testers. They are seen as the most similar organism next to humans. With the same bodily functions as humans, animals are viewed as the perfect option for testing out new medicines, food, perfumes, makeup and even household products. Or are they? Animal testing is a very controversial topic. While it ensures the safety of product lines, the testing on animals is inhumane and cruel and there are alternative methods. In this paper, I will discuss the reason animals are

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    New animal testing alternatives are being tested and introduced every day. Some scientists still believe that inhumane animal practices are still the way to go when it comes to testing medicines and cosmetics. As to most things, controversy crowds around the topic of alternatives to non-animal testing; opinions fly when scientists talk about the topic as well. As the trendy world of cruelty-free everything opens up, one can only question their actions and morals. In Natacha Coles article in Cruelty-Free

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    Animal Testing Banned

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    Animals are beautiful, amazing creatures that inhabit the Earth. However,some of these innocent animals are being subjected to pain and torture. Animals we have as pets such as guinea pigs, dogs, cats, and hamsters, are being tested. That does not include monkeys, pigs, fish, and others that are also used. The fact that these animals are being abused and neglected, is becoming a big controversial topic. Should animal testing be banned? Or do the animals have to suffer for the product of lipstick

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    don't stop to think about all the products that we use and the animal lives that are taken just for the products to be put on the shelves. Frankly, we are not losing anything but our money when we purchase the products, whether it be hair products, cleaning products, body products, or makeup products, but for these to even be put on the shelves for our liking, animals are punished, killed and tormented to their absolute death. Animal testing is also used for finding ways to cure human diseases and finding

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    estimated that each year 100 million animals in the United States are used for animal testing including mice, rats, frogs, dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs, monkeys, fish, and birds. Doing research and testing the safety of products on them is a debatable topic. Researchers give pain to animals to make sure that the humans do not suffer from pain. People have different feelings for animals; many look upon animals as companions while others view animals as a means for advancing medical techniques

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    Animal testing refers to procedures that take place in human clinical trials and it involves dosing, toxicity and efficiency of drugs. “ Humans beings have long used animals as test subjects for a variety of purposes.” (“Animal”) which violates the living rights of animals. Animals and people are alike in many ways, as close relatives we both feel, think , behave and experience pain therefore animals should be treated with the same value and respect as humans. Animal testing is inhumane and it

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    pharmaceutical studies use animals to test safety for humans or to see if life can survive in the dark void of the cosmos. Animals testing is not a humane way to conduct experiments as many test subjects do not live through a full trial. The extent that animals are used in scientific research is not acceptable in many cases. On June 11, 1948, the United States launched "Albert I", a rhesus monkey into space. Sadly, Albert I died of suffocation during the flight, but that didn't stop the testing. Albert I was

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    Topic: Animal Testing Purpose: To persuade Specific Purpose Statement: To persuade my audience to boycott products that animal test and to persuade them to support PETA’s animal cruelty free campaign. Thesis Statement: My audience should boycott products that animal test because (1) animal testing is ineffective, cruel and inhumane; (2) the solution will help stop unnecessary animal testing cruelty; (3) there are benefits of enacting my solution. Attention Step: I. (Attention Getter) Jeremy Bentham

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    Millions of animals across the world are used for animal research. From trying to find a cure for diseases to making sure that cosmetics are safe for human usage, animals are subjected to tests. For many decades people have debated about the morality of using animals for research and testing. Two philosophers, Peter Singer and Carl Cohen, while disagreeing on whether or not animals should be experimented on do agree that animals deserve to be treated humanely, due to the fact that they have sentience

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