The Case Against Animal Testing

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Animal testing is known as different procedures made in animals (rats, hamsters, rabbits, pigs, sheeps, cats…) in order to help research of the success in medicinal new products, test the human health in different environments and the efficacy of several beauty products. This kind of experiments can help the humanity to advance in research, but the truth is that these animals suffer of food and water deprivation, genetic manipulation, exposure to drugs or chemical toxicity. Finally, this animals are killed after the research. Many environmental groups fight against this practice and argue that scientists are ought to use other methods to proceed their researches and experiments without using animals.

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