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Animal Experimentation: Helping Humans, Hurting Animals Animal experimentation has been a resource for humans in centuries past to help better our survival, to some, it’s vital to humanity and to others, it should be eliminated completely. The controversy of animal testing has been going on since ancient times. For example, the Greeks used animals for scientific or religious purposes. Some of the world’s best philosophers have given their opinion on animal testing (Stump, Paragraph #1). For some people, animal experimentation is extremely useful and a necessity to humans. On the other hand, some think it is “morally unthinkable” and “unethical”. Animal experimentation is a big part of our world, killing over one hundred million animals per year, in the US alone (Collins, Paragraph #1), to be used in cosmetics or household conveniences, but at the same time, animal testing tortures and murders the lives of unsuspecting, innocent animals. Sixty seven percent of American voters were against animal testing being used for cosmetics (Humane Society, Paragraph #1). Many people who are against animal testing find it to be unethical, and they have many reasons why. The way that the tested animals are tortured is cruel and inhumane. Animals experimented on are “commonly subjected” to forced feeding, forced inhalation, deprivation of food and water, long periods of physical restraint, burns and other wounds (in order to study the healing process), infliction of pain, and other ways…

Less Experimenting more Saving The experimentation on animals for research is inhumane and should be put to and end. Animal experimentation is a serious problem that isn 't brought up very often, but undoubtedly you use something every day that an animal was tortured because of. Each year over 100 million animals are killed due to experimentation (U.S. Department of Agriculture 2014). The Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics concludes that the practice of experimenting on animals is “unthinkable”…

experiment (Akhtar). There is no reason for the tax money U.S residents pay every year to go towards a cause that many are against for. Also not only financially are humans being harmed, but also humans are harmed health wise. Many tests that were done on rodents that supposedly prevented diabetes were not done correctly and the results always came out that the treatment was successful (Akhtar). Nevertheless, when tested on a human the results came back inconclusive and the human trial was a…

Animal research has been in use for a long time as part of experiments conducted to assure the safe use of medicine, food, cosmetics, and among other products. Animals have repeatedly been used through the history of biomedical research. It is considered that Aristotle and Erasistratus were among the first scholars to perform experiments on living animals. As the experimentation on animals increased, so did criticism and controversy. It has been an important issue for many years because it…

alternatives to these vicious experimentations resulted in even more animals to experience it. Another example of a company listed in PETA’s 12 worst CEOs that uses animals for the means of research in laboratories (n.d.) is Covance. John Ratliff, CEO of the company that is famous for their drug development service is also one of the world’s largest dog breeder. These dogs were fated to experience the horrid experiments and this company is also one of the biggest importers of primates that…

Cosmetics, Smashbox and Wet n Wild. Animal testing is legal and there is no U.S. law or requirements in order to proceed with experiments on animals. Which, should be amended to no longer be used for animal testing. Instead of animal testing, scientist and laboratories should use alternative methods. By using this replacement method, it saves money and is more humane than testing on animals. One of the methods used is in vitro methods which is involves human cells and tissues(PETA). One of…

PAREXEL has a higher chance of increasing profitability than its competitors, because Covance is already acquired by LabCorp which means it will no longer have a brand recognition for itself and will continually be associated with LabCorp. Quintiles on the other hand, although has recognition and excel in research the amount to debt needs to be decreased or else interest rates will significantly affect the company’s financial flexibility. The average net profit margin of PAREXEL is 4.2% the…

Immunofluorescent staining of back skin sections Superfrost™ Plus™ slides stored at -80°C containing three 8 µm sections of mouse back skin are placed in a 37°C incubator for 10 min before they are submerged in acetone for 10 minutes at -20°C. The slides are washed in PBS, and the skin samples on each slide are incubated at room temperature for one hour in blocking buffer: 3 mL IF Buffer, 1:200 Fc block (Tonbo Biosciences), and 10% µL goat serum (Vector Labs). On each slide, at room…