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    The Misuse of Animals for Testing Animals have been the source for research testing since 500 BC, the methods are old and outdated. 100 million animals are tested on each year in the U.S. Some of these include mice, rats, dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, and monkeys. These animals are used for testing cosmetics, drugs, and experimentation; they sit in cages their whole life until they die. Animals should not be used as test subjects in any case because they are treated in cruel ways and suffer tremendously

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    Mrs. ------ English 11 11 June 2017 Animal Testing Animal testing dates back all the way to Greek physician scientists like Aristotle and Erasistratus. Greek scientist conducted experiments to understand the anatomy, physiology, pathology, and pharmacology just like our scientists do today. The moral ethics of animal testing has always been questioned, but many cures and treatments have been found due to animal testing discoveries. Animal testing is necessary for humankind 's overall well

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    Animal testing has a long history, with great minds such as Aristotle and Copernicus partaking in order to further their research. Scientists have used animals for biomedical research to help further their limited understanding of anatomy and physiology for thousands of years. It could be argued that the use of animal testing in the past has led to the current level of understanding and medical research that has saved many lives. However, the techniques used by Aristotle and others should now be

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    claims, but what most do not know is that a couple or couple hundred, animals were killed to approve, by law, of that product. This act is called animal testing, which is the method or experiment that forces an animal to go through any harm or distress (Thew). I do not agree with this practice simply because it harms innocent animals for products that we do not need

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    Medical Animal Testing

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    622 animals were used for medical research. Without these animals to test on we would have had to test on other human beings. Who would you rather test on, a rat, or a loved one? Medical animal testing is needed to keep moving forward in the medical fields and to keep our society strong. The genetic similarities between humans and the laboratory animals implement positive results. Since we are so genetically similar to chimpanzees and mice there are no other alternative options of testing on living

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    Animal testing Recently, there is an increasing number of methods, which are used to test medicine and beauty products, are animal testing. In this case, numerous animals are tested in the experiment. However, in laboratory tests,animal experiments still have defects that need to be solved. Additionally, the animal testing is a defective method, but it still widely used in normal life, which is utilized to get the result of new medicines and feedback of cosmetic products. On this basis, a number

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    products. The harm that occurs is thousands of animals getting burned, crippled, poisoned, and even killed due to the harmful substances scientists try to use to improve cosmetics. Testing of animals for cosmetics, to some people, is pointless. Animals do not react the same as humans when a substance is on their skin, simply because they are not human and do not have the same skin type. The ugly secret of the beauty industry is that innocent animals are suffering and dying from the processes used

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    because of vaccines that were made possible by animal testing (Benefits of). Animal testing is the use of non-human animals in research projects, mostly for purposes like determining the safety of products such as cosmetics or drugs (Animal testing). Some tests used on animals include injecting or forcing an animal to consume potentially harmful products, exposing animals to radiation, forcing animals to inhale toxic fumes, and exposing animals to experiences that cause anxiety and depression

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    Animal Testing, Why it Should be Eliminated     Animals have been used for scientific testing since the ages of Aristotle and Erasistratus.  Should we continue using animals as our test subjects, or is it time for a change? Many argue over whether testing on animals is good or bad, this debate has been continuous because it has both positive and negative affects. Animal testing has been the cause of many scientific breakthroughs, but, these are overthrown by the negative impact that animal testing

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    Animal Testing Is Wrong

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    Each year, more than 100 million animals are killed in the United States from animal testing. These animals are harmed or even killed more than half of the time that they are experimented on. These harmless animals are taken and forced into captivity for different kinds of testing from day to day. They are forced to stay in cages all day long and only get to eat what they are given based on testing for that day. Animals are just like people; they need to exercise, have interactions, be able to eat

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