Animal Testing On Living Animals

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Animal experimentation dates back to “the early Greek physician-scientists, such as Aristotle, (384 – 322 BC) and Erasistratus, (304 – 258 BC), performed experiments on living animals due to animals having similar traits as the humans and to further progress on the understanding of anatomy, physiology, pathology, and pharmacology” according to Raehel Hajar from the article Animal Testing and Medicine. However some might say, that the use of animals in experiments are often not effective since they do not get major types of diseases for example heart disease, many types of cancer, HIV, Parkinson’s disease, or schizophrenia so to test on animals it becomes unnecessary and artificial. But the proponents of the animal testing might say there

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