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    rights of all animals with further argument or debates, do humans have the right to use animals on medical testing and lab use? There are several issues that can be placed in this argument this research will acknowledge four important topics in the rights of animal testing. Is it right to use animals for testing? Is it right to compare animal DNA to human DNA in these animal experiments? Is it right to use real animals instead of computers to generate results? Is it right to state animals are being

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    Animal Testing Uses

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    Animals are appropriate research subjects because they are similar to humans in many ways. (procon.org) They are essential for allowing scientists to learn more about human biology and health, and for creating and developing new medicines. (yourgenome.org) Animal research helps save and preserve lives. Animals themselves gain from the results of animal testing. Because vaccines were tested on animals would have died from rabies. Infections, hepatitis viruses, and canine pro virus. Animals are used

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    Animal Testing On Dogs

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    90% of tests on dogs fail on humans. As a result, it is a waste of testing and a waste of dogs (Malisow). About 68% of the dogs tested are used for cosmetics and drug testing. Also, more than 1,000 experiments are going on at any given time (Schweers) This shows that so many dogs are being tested on in the labs and one of the worst things they test on is glycogen disease.

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    Animal Testing Essay

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    Animal Testing and Medical Advancement Every day, animals such as rabbits, chimpanzees, and mice take part of medical experimentation. “Chimpanzees share 99% of their DNA with humans, and mice are 98% genetically similar to humans. The United States and Gabon are the only two countries that allow experimentation on chimpanzees.” (The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada). What people don’t understand is that these animals contribute to medical discoveries regarding human health. Animals should be used

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    Animal Testing Beneficial

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    The use of animals for developing new cosmetics and for educational purposes, known as animal testing, has been going on for years. In the medical field, there is a need for testing on animals of various different things. Most importantly, over 26 million animals each year is used for medical purposes: biomedical research and clinical research. Whereas in often areas animal testing is cruel and unnecessary. In order for the scientists to know how diseases progress in humans, they need to study the

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    Unethical Animal Testing

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    Many people often oversee the effects of animal testing. This has been going on for decades and many are unaware of the results and the damages animal testing can cause. Animals undergo a lot of stress and pain when they are put through experimentations. Many have debated that it is unethical to test on animals while others say it helps to protect the safety of humans. In my opinion, animal testing is cruel and should be made illegal. Their lives are just as important as human lives and should not

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    Animal Testing Essay

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    Animal testing, also known as animal experimentation is the process of testing new treatments and medicines on animals. Animal test is a scientific experiment in which live animal such as mice, hamsters, guinea pigs, monkeys, and baboons is used to undergo testing that is likely to cause them pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm. Scientist use this research to determine what type of diseases affect the human body and what can be done in order to treat these diseases. Testing on animals is not

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    numerous animals to sustain their life and to keep their species. They used animals to hunt other animals or they use them to protect themselves. Sometimes they eat the hunting animals if they fail to hunt other animal. They also used animals to acquire knowledge. They learned biology through dissect animals and they also learned pharmacology through test medicines on animals. However present day, people start to ask question about ethics of animal testing. Some groups of people say that animal testing

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    own animals to cherish, love and fight boredom. Humans have had animals as pets for around 10,000 years. Cats were the first animal to be domesticated by humans in the Near East. But how would you feel if your pet was used for scientific testing? Even though dogs and cats are not always used for testing they are shown on the “Top 10 animals used for experiments”. The top three are flies, worms, and rats followed by rabbits, other large rodents, fish, then dogs and cats. Although animal testing is

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    Animals for Testing

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    slowly and painfully dying. We use animals for testing new products, like medications and beauty products that we end up using. Why should animals be put through such pain and agony for something we need? We are selfish and think we are the superior species, so we use animals instead of us. In my opinion, animals should not be used for testing and researching new products. Each year, more than 100 million animals are killed during testing. Some of those animals end up dying before the experiment

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