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    Animal Welfare Act

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    is at the expense of animals we may typically see in our everyday lives. The use of animals in pharmacological education and research is nothing new and dates way back to the ancient times. The amount of data that has been acquired from these animal testings has allowed for modern medicine to improve and opened new gateways for further development of newer medication, but at what cost? Going way back in time to the ancient times, Greek scientists and physicians used animals to satisfy their curiosity

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    back to the people saving their lives but risking his own.Even though the man's life was risked, you saved more people than you hurt.This is what animal testing does.Animal testing saves thousands of lives every single day. As I said animal testing benefits more than it hurts.To emphasize, in the article “Animal Testing:Lifesaving Research vs. Animal Welfare” the author states,“Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin experimented on monkeys and chimpanzees to develop polio vaccines.The polio vaccines were so powerful

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    Think of a small or large innocent animal, dying a painful death, all because we humans want to advance and need something to test on. They are only being minimally protected because they are seen as just our “property”. Testing on animals is not the problem, the extremely inhumane way that they are being treated is. Many animals of different species sit in cages of research facilities, instead of being out in the wild where they belong. They are forced to endure multiple tests every day. These tests

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    producing meat, cheese, milk, eggs, and several other variations of animal products. Although cost effective, factory farming is criticized because of the subpar conditions the animals are subjected to, and the apparent environmental harm they inflict due to the immense amount of waste these factories produce. In an article titled “Using Emerging Pollution Tracking Methods to Address the Downstream Impacts of Factory Farm Animal Welfare Abuse”, the authors Tarah Heinzen and Abel Russ discuss the recurrent

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    Every year, over billions of innocent animals, are dying, poisoned, and killed as a result of million experiments that are tested on them. These new experiments are not hundred percent guaranteed. However, these experiences may work with animals and give positive results, but when it tests back on the human, it gives the opposite results. The animal welfare campaign finds that testing new products on animals is an inhuman and a cruel thing and it should be stopped. So, they start making attacks around

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    Zoos: The Federal Animal Welfare Act

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    comfortable environment; making animals happy and content; educating the world about wildlife; and saving species from the brink of extinction while at the same time providing vital research into the lives of animals. There is a moral presumption against keeping wild, defenseless animals in captivity. The zoo is a prison for animals who have been sentenced without a trial. Either we have duties to animals or we do not. I feel that we have a duty and responsibility to animals and need to provide them

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    States not properly using animal welfare. Animal rights activists believe that animals were not put here for human use and should be able to live their lives free of human intervention. Animal welfare is better for all animals and for human benefit while using the animals. The American Veterinary Medical Association says that, “Animal welfare refers to the state of the animal; the treatment that an animal receives is covered by other terms such as animal care, animal husbandry, and humane treatment

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    Animal shelters are overflowing, some euthanizing dogs just because they no longer have the resources to care for these animals, yet people are still buying their dogs from the pet store. When getting a new dog, adopt it from the animal shelter rather than buying it from a pet store. Everyone wants to have a cute cuddly family dog, however, they are not willing to put in the time and energy into properly training their animals so they either leave them on the side of the road, or take them to animal

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    suggested that one should respect the lives of animals in the laboratory or that they, and not the experiments, however fascinating and instructive, were worthy of greater consideration” (1986, p. 50). 95% of animals used in experiments are not protected by the federal Animal Welfare Act. This law excludes animals such as birds, mice, and rats that are bred primarily for research purposes. The Animal Welfare Act regulates the housing and transportation of animals, but no rule or regulation exists that restricts

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    Industrial farm animal welfare is horrendous, only two federal laws protect these animals which proves this true. Firstly, the law regarding trucking animals states that every 28 hours they are unloaded from the truck for rest, water and food. Trucks aren’t required to be cleaned during this rest period. Meaning the livestock has to stand in feces during travel. Secondly, livestock be quickly rendered insensible to pain before being slaughtered. These laws aren’t actively enforced leading to increased

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