Abolishing Animal Testing

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Animal testing causes pain to animals all over the world, it exploits them for our need. It has existed for hundreds of years, but recently a movement has started to abolish the usage of animals in testing products and medication. Animal testing is wrong and should be abolished in favor of newer, better solutions, it often causes pain to the animal, and in most cases the results cannot be applied to humans, some may argue that because animal testing is a tried and true science, it must stay, but there are now technological advances to replace it. Animal testing causes animals pain, and therefore it is an inhumane practice and should be abolished. In 2007, over 77,000 animals suffered pain due to animal testing and were not given drugs to

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