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Alternative scientific test are often more reliable than animal testing. For example, experiments in rats, hamsters, guinea pigs, mice, monkeys, and baboons revealed no link between glass fibers and cancer. Only after human studies related the two did the occupational safety and health administration label these fibers as carcinogenic. EpiDerm, an in vitro test…

How do you spend your money? If you are like a lot of consumers now days, you are probably trying to watch your budget a little more carefully since the recession. Sure, every once in a while it feels great to buy something new, but soon that feeling fades, and the item becomes just another trinket collecting dust. Consumers need to start spending their money on purchases that are more personally valuable in order to feel more fulfilled. So how can we begin to spend our money in a way that will…

been placed to ensure the best and least painful procedure possible. Since 1966, these experiments have been regulated by the Animal Welfare Act. The initial document placed “minimum standards of care and housing for dogs, cats, primates, rabbits, hamsters and guinea pigs in the premises of animal dealers and laboratories...” (Animal Welfare Institute). Since then many more rules have been placed to protect the animals. Every research facility is required to have an Institutional Animal Care and…

The Ethics on the Morality of Animal Research In this paper I will discuss the wrongness of animal testing based on the falsification of the biological account of moral status. All sentient creatures, no matter what their biology, matter morally. Animals used in research labs for testing are sentient, therefore they have moral status. In Cohen’s paper, he describes the testing of animals for human benefit to be morally permissible because they do not have human membership (Cohen, p. 94) However…

which led to an increase in the use of them as lab animals. Lab rats and mice account for roughly four-fifths of the 12 million lab animals used in total (Engber). Other animals that make up the other one-fifth are fish, birds, guinea pigs, rabbits, hamster, horses, monkeys, pigs, dogs, and more (Engber). Over 88 million rats and mice are used during experiments annually (Engber). Having over half of the percentage of animals being tested on be rats and mice restricts the possibilities of…

Coronavirus comes from the family of coronaviridae, they are pathogens found in birds and mammals. Coronaviruses is a positive sense RNA virus and it was classified into four genera: Alphacoronavirus, Betacoronavirus, Gammacoronavirus, Betacoronavirus. There are many human types of the virus, for example, MERS-CoV, and SARS-CoV. SARS-CoV is a Severe acute respiratory syndrome. The Severe acute respiratory was found in 2003 when it first hit China and caused a big outbreak. Studies have shown…

With over one hundred million animals killed in testing every year in the United States alone, alternative methods should begin being ushered in. Every day animals are being harmed in the name of “forward progress,” while every day alternative methods are being discovered and explored. As scientific data is gathered on alternative methods, testing on animals becomes more and more outdated. Animal testing is outdated and should not be considered helpful anymore because it is cruel, pointless, and…

Vida, the nine chapter collection of memories that are not placed in chronological order, by Patricia Engel gives a bicultural perspective of the contradictions and complexities of growing up Columbian in the United States. Throughout the novel, Sabina floats from her twenties in New York and Florida and her youth and adolescence in the suburbs of New Jersey to in the last chapter, Madre Patria, a family vacation in Colombia when she was seven. Sabina illuminates her growth as the protagonist…

Literacy Autobiography Reading has always been a subject that I have struggled in and so has many others. Not the understanding part, but the paying attention to whatever is on the page and what is happening part. It has always been something that I need to figure out, and I am still figuring it out to this day. Ever since the first day of kindergarten, I have been terrible at writing, reading, and most anything related to the English subject. In kindergarten, I distinctly remember how to…

Few examples exist that truly show how cruel people can be, and animal testing is high on the list. Imagine a beloved animal, caged in stainless steel, shaking, being analyzed for the effects of a new ingredient in a beauty product. Millions are drawn to protest the tests conducted for vanity, and some countries have already placed laws in action to ban the practice. The fight continues in the U.S. for the welfare of animals that are still undergoing vile tests so that people can have cosmetic…