Animal Experimentation : Is It Wrong To Experiment On Animals? There is an ongoing battle between animal rights activists and scientific researchers on the topic of Animal Experimentation. A scientific researcher, Gina Solomon, said, “While we would prefer not to sacrifice a single laboratory rat, we believe that the sacrifice is warranted to protect our children and future generations.” These experiments on animals are needed for the greater good. Animal experimentation is essential for the discovery…
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Scientists use animals in biological and medical research more as a matter of tradition, not because animal research has proved particularly successful or better than other modes of experimentation. In fact, animal ‘models’ have never been validated, and the claim that animals are necessary for biomedical research is unsupported by the scientific literature[1]. Instead, there is growing awareness of the limitations of animal research and its inability to make reliable predictions about human health…
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Animal Experimentation i Should Animal Experimentation Be Abandon? Veronica Liang ESL 408C Marcia Rauch November 18, 2011 Animal Experimentation ii Research Paper Outline Title: Should Animal Experimentation be Abandon? I Introduction Thesis Statement: Animal testing is a debatable issue in modern society. Some people argue that animal testing should be kept due to medical benefits and research study conveniences. However, I think animal experimentation should be banned by refuting…
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Jimmy Roberts, 1 Animal Experimentation Whether supported or not, experiments done on animals have be ongoing for the last century. There is one significant reason as to why animals have been used for research and testing the unknown. Animal research has played a vital role in virtually every major medical advance of the last century- for both human and animals (Trull, 2002). The majority of knowledge pertaining to biological health issues of humans and animals such as surgery, cure of…
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In particular, there are animals which have been commonly used by man in various capacities, such as for food, clothing, pets, entertainment, companionship, beasts of burden, lately scientific and medical research. However, the question “Should animals have rights?” people contend that animals do or do not have rights based on several factors, including whether animals can learn, can use language, are conscious, are able to suffer, and are ethical beings. However, animals should have their rights…
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In the field of medical research, there has been a rising discussion on the experimentation methods using animals. Many major discoveries have changed the medical field including antibiotics, insulin, vaccines for polio and cervical cancer; but there has been controversy on how these discoveries have been made. Many people believe that it is essential to use animals to research different drugs or chemicals to find the cause or cure to a disease, to make sure that the drug or cure is safe to use before…
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and theft are ‘acceptable crimes’ when used for the animal cause,” says Alex Pacheco, co-founder and former chairman of People for the Ethical Treatment for Animals.” Pacheco first became famous by fraudulently posing as a researcher in order to spy on Edward Taub and his Institute for Behavioral Research in an investigation that helped launch PETA. His photographs of sick and injured monkeys from inside the Institute gave the growing animal-rights movement instant credibility. I am a member of…
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That’s where ethical views come to play and where the controversy begins. There has been an addressed experimentation on embryonic cell stems by the US National Academy of Sciences. “In a section titled ‘Interspecies Mixing’, the authors concluded that there were ‘valid scientific reasons’ for creating chimeras - living entities composed of both human and animal cells. You may have seen mention of chimeras in the press recently. As stem cell technology pushes…
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Jamey Cline Dr. Tatum ENGL 1301.NT5 7 May 2015 Humanizing Animal Rights Animal welfare and rights laws have been in existence for decades but there is growing debate over how much further those laws should go to entitle non-human animals natural rights equal to those of humans. This debate is controversial due to the affects that granting equal rights to animals would have on humans. What if you had a terminal disease and you were told that there was a new drug that could cure the disease only you…
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debate has raged as to whether or not we have a moral right to kill animals for our own gain, as there is a view that animals are beings with beliefs and desires, and as such are the "subjects of a life" with moral value and therefore moral rights. Questions have also been raised as to the legitimacy of the legal regulation of vivisection. Even in cases in which animal rights organisations have uncovered examples of un-scientific animal cruelty, the fines levied against the perpetrators were of almost…
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