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    Researchers define animal testing as an experiment where a living animal undergoes a procedure that causes them to go through pain, distress, suffering, or permanent and physical damage. In general, the experiments consist of radiation exposure, injections, inhalation of harmful gases, removal of any body parts, internal and external, and the exposure of terrifying situations that causes stress and depression for the animals (Scutti). Currently, a wide range of animals are being used for research

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    Over 100 million animals die each year from animal testing alone states PETA. Makeup and beauty companies test their products on animals. These products are harmful to them. The testing procedures are also very cruel. There are many problems with animal testing, but they can be solved. Animal testing is a huge problem. The methods used to test on them are dangerous and cruel. To measure the toxic effects, animals are forced to swallow or inhale massive quantities of a test substance or have

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    humans use animals for testing each year. Animal testing is when the animals are put through something or injected to see how they react to what medical research they have been used for. It's impossible to know exactly how many animals are being used in research because U.S. laws do not require scientists to report how many mice, rats, or birds they use, but it’s estimated that 90% of lab animals are mice and rats. It’s crucial that everyone know why animals should not be used for testing of harmful

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    from animal testing. By testing on a dogs pancreas the how saved my patients with diabetes. Around 26 million animals are used yearly in the US for scientific and commercial testing. Animals are being used to check the safety of products designed for human use and develop medical treatments, determine the toxicity of medications, and other medical, commercial, and health care uses. Research and experimenting on living animals has been practiced all the way back to 500 BC. Supporters of animal testing

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    Her eyes get all red and her arm and knee starts to bleed and she starts to get a black and blue. Animals are the same. It hurts them, but they can’t say or do anything about it. Just because sciences need to test animals that does not mean the people should kill animals that done nothing. Sally Driscoll and Laura Finley states “Did you know approximately 95 percent of the millions of animals used in experiments are mice and rats, with the remaining 5 percent comprised mostly of dogs, cats, guinea

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    Animal Testing Mccarthy

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    Mccarthy, animal testing has causing harm to animals for a very long time. Each year, more than 100 million animals are harmed and killed due to the drugs and medicine that are being tested on them. Now is the time to end the pain and suffering animals go through. Animals are very different from human beings, they make very poor test subjects. To begin with, Paul Furlong, Professor of Clinical Neuroimaging at Aston University (UK), states that,”It’s very hard to create an animal model that

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    Animal testing is cruel and inhumane. Every year, more than a hundred million animals- including mice, dogs, cats, rabbits, monkeys, and many more- are killed in the U.S. They are killed for laboratories in biology lessons, training, curiosity experiments, and chemical, drug, food, and cosmetics testing. Experimenting on animals is a cruel way of testing products. Alternative testing methods now exist that can replace the need for animals. Most experiments involving animals are flawed, which wastes

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    safety in humans. Animal testing, also referred to as animal experimentation and animal research involves experimentation on animals such as mice, rats, rabbits, guinea pigs and hamsters in labs to investigate the safety and efficiency of a variety of products ranging from medication to cosmetics and even understanding the physiology of the human body. However, with masses of animals killed each year for this purpose; this essay will aim to evaluate the necessity of animal testing as well the opposition

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    Alternative Methods to Animal Testing Animal testing is the use of animals in research to determine the safety of a product, usually cosmetics or pharmaceutical drugs. This method of testing is an outdated science while alternative, non-animal methods are rapidly becoming more effective. Laws in the United States do not require cosmetics or medicinal drugs to be tested on animals, only that the products must be proven safe (FDA). Some argue that animal testing is necessary to improve human life

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    tested on animals should be sold or manufactured in Australia Siobhan Crisp “Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals and the answer is: ‘Because animals are like us.’ Ask the experiments why it is morally okay to experiment on animals, and the answer is: ‘Because animal are not like us’” -Prof. Charles R. Magel Good morning/Afternoon students and Mrs Dwyer today I will be talking about how animal tested products should not be manufactured or sold in Australia. Firstly, animal experimentation

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