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A table from Lane-Petter and Howell (Table A: “The Principles of Humane Testing” 1) shows that in the countries labeled; India, Italy, Japan, Switzerland, and United Kingdom; the majority of the animals used for testing were mice in all cases. The runner up for these countries is rats, with the exception of chickens in the United Kingdom. Lane-Petter and Howell also calculated that 98 percent of the animals tested in Switzerland are mammals. Italy is next in line with a 95.7 percent mammal use…

It's easy to disregard the consequences when you're distracted by the simple thing that you desire. The cosmetic industry has proven itself to be very sought-after. This industry, specifically makes one hundred and sixty million dollars annually! However, part of the process of doing so has created a controversy worldwide. Everyday thousands of innocent animals are experiencing excruciating toxicity tests and chemical treatments. This is one of the many repulsive secrets cosmetic manufacturers…

San Salvador, El Salvador is home to over a quarter million people. But, San Salvador is also home to a huge criminal network of gang activity. These gangs are also known locally as maras or pandillas. These gangs engage in petty crimes such as such as purse snatching, robbery, taxing bus drivers and small stores in their neighborhoods, as well as small-scale drug distribution in certain parts of the city in order to fund themselves economically. In the past two decades, these gangs have not…

Is Animal Testing Wrong? In the current discussions of animal testing, an important argument has been whether or not animal testing is wrong, considering that animals have feelings. One viewpoint is that using animals for testing is completely okay and important in human survival. From this idea, many people such as Heloisa Sabin believe that “without animal research, polio would still be claiming thousands of lives each year” (158). Basically, Sabin is stating that sacrificing animals for…

On average, the government spends $14.5 billion on animal testing ("Feds Spend up to $14.5"). Michael Bastasch, reporter for The Daily Caller states: “$14.5 billion could provide a lot of tax relief for Americans. It could help pay down national debt or help prevent a shutdown. Instead, it’s paying to study the effects of crystal meth on monkeys at UCLA. How can we justify government waste like this?” The majority of the money is being spent on purposeless experiments, telling people that…

Animals all over the globe are sitting in a cage right now, scared, cold and alone waiting for the next experiment to be done to them. They sit in this cage longing for the day that they are able to free, if they survive the experiments or if they are of no longer need to the scientists. Every year there are millions of animals killed in laboratories from the tests and experiments done to them. These poor, defenseless animals are poisoned, shocked, and burned during these tests and are often…

Discourse can be defined as “meaningful communicative transactions” (UTS 2016) and also “forms of subjectivity and power relations which inhere in such knowledge and relations between them” (Weedon, 1987) which means that the knowledge is a process of acquire where discourses can be referred as “more than one way of thinking and producing meaning, they constitute the ‘nature’ of the body, unconscious and conscious mind and emotional life” (Weedon, 1987), which in other words means that by…

Animal Experimentation and Research Common sense seems to dictate that the aim of medicine, vaccines, and surgeries are to improve our health, reduce and manage our pain and illnesses, and hopefully to live a longer life. With man wanting to learn more about the structure of the human body, he began experimenting on animals since using humans was considered unethical. According to the Professors of Pharmacology Badyal and Desai, animals are used in experimentation primarily for education,…

The act of animal testing for biomedical research began as early as 500 BC. The known people who had started this were Aristotle and Erasistratus. They performed experiments on living animals. A Greek physician named Galen, who lived from 129-199/217 AD, conducted research on animals to understand studies such as anatomy and pharmacology. A man named Ibn Zuhr was an Arab physician in twelfth century Moorish Spain. He introduced animal testing as a way of practicing medical procedures before…

A Dog sitting outside in the negative 16 degree wind chill freezing to death with him being skin and bones from not being fed and no water due to it being frozen. This is an example of neglect and cruelty. Animal abuse can take on many other forms.Although an animal death may not always be a result of cruelty or neglect, there are animals harmed due to lack of feeding or for their fur. Animals get abused for different reasons.Experimentation, testing, hunting and dog fighting are many examples…