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    predominantly centres around animals being used for drug testing, product testing, military experimentation, biological and behavioural research as well as medical research (Linzey, 2013). This essay will contend that the normative claim “it is wrong to cause unnecessary suffering” ought to be extended to the practice of vivisection. There is no valid justification for vivisection given the suffering that it causes. We do not really know what goes on in any given animals mind, however, we can tell

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    results from killing animals). The important part of the dispute is based on the animal welfare, nutrition value from meat, convenience, and affordability of meat-based foods compared to vegetable-based foods and other factors like environmental moral code, culture, and religion. All these points are important in justifying whether humans are morally right when choosing to eat meat. This paper will argue that it is morally impermissible to eat meat by focusing on the

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    In the United States over 100 million animals are use for animal testing they treat them in a cruel way. However, these creatures suffer many damages and the problem is that they cannot defend themselves and if we still consuming products that includes animal testing this plague is never going to end. Some of the main reasons why we should stop buying products that they use animals for testing are because of the physical pain they cause to the animal, animals’ rights are violated when they use them

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    Why should animals be used for medical research? Is it because some animals are similar to humans probably. Even though animals have rights they should still be used for experiments because if scientist experiment on humans and something go wrong they could kill that human being. That is why animals should be used for medical research because they have different blood type and cells from us. Something that can easily kill us might not kill an animal, so with that they can find a way to cure the disease

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    estimated 26 million animals are being tested on yearly. Animal testing has helped humanity in many ways ever since it started about 2,500 years ago. Cures have been created for many viruses and sicknesses but it has come with a cost to the animals. Animals are being put in horrendous living conditions that often cause them anxiety and pain. People in favor of animal of animal testing argue that we should keep testing on animals to further scientific research, while those against animal testing believe

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    Over the past few decades, animals have been enduring unimaginable pain and fear due to being used to test the everyday products we use. And as unfortunate as it sounds, animals simply do not have the choice in these cruel experiments scientist put them through. According to data collected by F. Barbara Orlans for her book, In the Name of Science: Issues in Responsible Animal Experimentation, “sixty percent of all animals used in testing are used in biomedical research and product-safety testing”

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    Animal Testing (Cosmetics and Medicine) Scientists have a choice to make: they can choose to use animals and torture them or they can use alternatives like artificial skin from humans or animals to see how they react. Everyday thousands of animals are being tortured for science. The experiments that are performed on these poor animals are very inhumane. For example, In “The 5 Worst Animal Experiments Happening Right Now” the author states, “Every year, more than 100,000 primates are experimented

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    is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?" Every year an estimated 26 million animals in the United Sates are tested on. Animals are used to test medical products, makeup, and many other everyday used products. The processes that these animals go through is very painful, and most times leave horrible side effects. Testing on these animals is cruel and inhumane. Animals have been tested on for centuries in order to develop medical treatments and other important products

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    Animal Testing Animals are man’s best friend; this is what most people claim, but do they really mean it? Animal testing is widely used nowadays and this method has been used long time ago. Some people agree that animal testing is useful and has some benefits as it helps in discovering new medicines and its side effects so by this method it helps in saving humans lives and some animals too. Animal testing is so inhumane due to the physical pain and cruelty the animals face, some experiments are misleading

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    moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” In other words, a nation can pass its moral test by treating animals kindly. However, this is rarely the case, especially where animal experimentation is concerned. First, animals feel pain just as much as humans do. And, since better options exist, causing animals’ unnecessary pain is unethical from a scientific perspective. Society should put an end to animal experimentation because animals are sentient beings, there are other alternatives

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