We Need Animal Testing

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Why do we have animal testing? The reason we have animal testing is to see if the products we get are safe to use. Some people think animal testing is cruel to use animals for testing. People think we should use animals for testing, but other people it's not right to use animals for testing. Also people don’t like to see animals get hurt from the shots or pills. This why we shouldn’t have animal testing to see its ok for people. There is more than 100 million animals die from the testing each year.

The animals that mostly are used for testing mice, fish, rats, rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, farm animals, birds, cats, dogs, mini pigs, and non-human primates, (monkeys, and in some countries, chimpanzees). This animals are innocent and they

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