Animal Testing Research Paper

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Not only does animal testing harm animals itself, but it can also harm us. Animal testing is supposed to help scientists find more information about us, for example, how our body works and what medicines or chemicals will not have an effect on us. However, currently animal testing has not been useful and is misleading a lot of experiments (Clemmitt 10). In fact, so animals will not show any effect on them when scientist test out medicines, but in some cases, humans will show effect and has led to many outbursts. According to Helen Marston, who leads the Humane Research Australia, “the United States Federal Drug Administration confirms that nine out of ten drugs ‘proven’ successful in animal tests fail in human trials (Pycroft and Marston 36).”

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