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practice over history to test on animals due to their similar biology to humans. After all, a mouse shares 98% of DNA with a human. It is also seen as more humane to test an animal with a new drug than a human. In fact, in the 1960 's the drug Thalidomide was put on the market before having been tested on animals. One function of this drug was to cure women from pregnant morning sickness and was known as the "wonder drug." On the contrary, the drug ended up causing 10,000 newborns to have…

Argumentative essay: Experimenting on animals, with or against? Since many years, animals have always been one of the reasons for the survival of many human beings. They are used for experimental and medical research for finding new drugs and treatments and for the general advancement of health and medicine. There has been a controversy between people about the pros and cons to the practice of animal testing and whether it is helpful or it is just wasting the animal lives…

Animal Testing in the United States Every day animals are being used for scientific research either leaving them mutated or dead. Imagine your dog being taken into the lab for various cruel experiments that lasts for weeks. After being tested on multiple times your dog can’t take it anymore and ends up dying. Does that seem right for any animal to go through pain, and potentially risk their lives for research? “Each year in the United States an estimated 20-70 million animals—from cats, dogs,…

Although animal testing saves many from having deadly side effects happen to them, it is unethical, and there are better ways to test these results. The lives of animals are taken each day due to unnecessary testing that can be performed in different ways. One could argue the practice of this is inaccurate, and there are multiple other ways for testing on things that would be more accurate and would not harm the animals. After all, animals and humans are two completely different species who…

Animal Testing Animals have been the key point in animal testing. However, the amounts of animals being use are suffering during the process of being experimenting on. People don’t realize that animals are living being that has feeling and emotions just like humans do. People do not understand the nature that goes around them. They choose to be ignorant and avaricious about money and wasting animal lives because they feel that animal pain is less important than human pain. Animal…

Since animals are not the same as the human body, this can mislead scientists. For example, thalidomide was a sleeping pill in the 1950s. It was tested on animals before it went on the market to ensure its safety but did not include the effects the drug would have during pregnancy. Over 10,000 babies were born with severe deformities due to this drug…

The Truth Behind Animal Testing 95% of animals used in experiments are not protected by the Animal Welfare Act. These animals are more likely to be abused because they have no protection. 26 million animals are used every year in the US for commercial and scientific testing. According to the Humane Society International, animals that are experimented on are subject to force feeding, inhalation, food and water deprivation, lengthened periods of physical restraint, and infliction of…

humans, it caused about 320,000 strokes and heart attacks and about 140,000 deaths worldwide”. (Arguments against animal testing) Another drug that was first tested using animals before it was released for commercial use was the “1950s sleeping pill thalidomide, which caused 10,000 babies to be born with severe deformities”. (Should Animals Be Used for Scientific Testing? 5) When comes to knowing what conditions animals used in testing endure these can range from animals experiencing lethal…

a week before the testing is stopped. The commonly used LD50 (lethal dose 50) is where they find out how high of a dosage of a chemical can be administered before it kills 50 percent of the test subjects. In the 1950s, the sleeping pill called thalidomide, was tested on several pregnant mothers or various animal species before it was released, and once released, the effects were horrible. This product being released into the market caused 10,000 babies to be born with severe, and life altering…

Approximately 92% of experimental drugs that are safe and effective in animals eventually fail in human trials because they end up not working or are too dangerous. That begs the question whether or not animal testing is a necessary practice. If the product is going to go to human trial anyways, why not start there? Although some may argue that put people’s lives in danger, but that is what volunteers are for. As well as having volunteers there are also people who are in prison for heinous…