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    This document discusses animal testing and provides arguments against its use. It notes that animal testing causes psychological and physical pain to animals. While it has been used for many years to test products, over 95% of drugs approved through animal testing later fail in human trials, showing it is an unreliable method. Alternative non-animal methods now exist that are more effective, such as tests using human stem cells that can detect harmful substances with 93% accuracy compared to only 60% for animal tests. The document concludes that animal testing is not necessary and not worth continuing given the availability of alternative methods and the millions of animals that have been harmed or died from testing.

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    This document discusses animal testing and provides arguments against its use. It notes that animal testing causes psychological and physical pain to animals. While it has been used for many years to test products, over 95% of drugs approved through animal testing later fail in human trials, showing it is an unreliable method. Alternative non-animal methods now exist that are more effective, such as tests using human stem cells that can detect harmful substances with 93% accuracy compared to only 60% for animal tests. The document concludes that animal testing is not necessary and not worth continuing given the availability of alternative methods and the millions of animals that have been harmed or died from testing.

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    This document discusses animal testing and provides arguments against its use. It notes that animal testing causes psychological and physical pain to animals. While it has been used for many years to test products, over 95% of drugs approved through animal testing later fail in human trials, showing it is an unreliable method. Alternative non-animal methods now exist that are more effective, such as tests using human stem cells that can detect harmful substances with 93% accuracy compared to only 60% for animal tests. The document concludes that animal testing is not necessary and not worth continuing given the availability of alternative methods and the millions of animals that have been harmed or died from testing.

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    Kendrick Acosta

    Mr.Marshall
    Eng 10-5
    28 Feb. 2023

    Animal testing (No title yet)

    Animal testing is the experimentation or research on animals, it is used to ensure the

    safety and effectiveness of medication,cosmetics, diseases, basic biology etc.But there is

    something wrong with it. Animal testing inflicts psychological and physical pain to animals.

    There are alternative ways for animal testing so it is not necessary to use this method so although

    animal testing is useful, people should not make animals suffer while alternative options are

    available.

    Around the world many countries use animal testing. Animal testing has been used for

    many years and in the present even though there are alternative options animal testing is a

    practice that keeps going but why is that? International Humane Society explains it “Old habits

    die hard, and globally there is still a lack of knowledge of and expertise in cutting-edge

    non-animal techniques”(Humane Society International Mexico).It is very important that people

    inform themselves and inform others about alternative ways which they are and how do they

    work.

    Animals who are being experimented suffer,not only because they are not where they are

    supposed to be in their natural environment, they suffer also because of the conditions in which

    they are and Cruelty Free explains it “Laboratories are no place for any animal. They are

    typically sterile, indoor environments in which the animals are forced to live in cages, pens or

    Perspex boxes – denied complete freedom of movement and control over their lives. Some

    animals in laboratories are confined on their own, without the companionship of others (Cruelty

    Free) Imagine the perspective of animals they don't know where they are, they are alone and with
    lack of freedom all the animals would feel scared in that situation “life inside a laboratory is no

    life at all (Cruelty Free).

    Many people think animal testing is necessary for medical progress because it has been

    used for a long time and it has given results however this misses a point many of the practices

    and ideas that once were considered state-of-the-art have been replaced by something more

    sophisticated and successful years later.When compared to the modern jumbo jet we travel in

    today,the Wright brothers invention of the airplane was truly innovative for its time in the early

    1900.While those ideas are relevant to aviation history,they do not represent cutting edge design

    or human achievement.That is also the case with Animal testing.Medical history is where

    Animal research belongs.Therefore if we want better medical research and cures for diseases we

    must embrace the new science chapter of the 21st century (Humane Society International Mexico

    Accessed 2023).

    Is animal testing worth it?Animal testing makes suffer animals at the point of death many

    animals have died because of animal testing “Estimates suggest that more than 50 million

    animals are used for experiments each year in the United States alone. The vast majority of these

    animals are rats and mice” (Humane League Accessed 2023) The truth is that animal testing is

    not worth it many animals have died and it has given a few results animal testing is unreliable

    “For instance, drugs approved through animal testing later fail in human trials more than 95% of

    the time. The majority of experimental pharmaceuticals prove too dangerous or ineffective when

    they enter the human trial phase” (Human League Accesed 2023) As we can appreciate the

    results of animal testing are unreliable so it is not worth it.

    Some people think that animal testing is more effective and beneficial for humans, so

    they keep supporting it, however the truth is that alternative ways are better than animal research
    because they are more effective and they don’t harm anyone. The organization Cruelty Free

    supports alternative ways for animal testing “Tests on animals to find out if chemicals or drugs

    may harm the developing baby can only detect 60% of dangerous substances. But a non-animal

    test using human stem cells has 93% sensitivity at detecting substances known to cause

    developmental problems” (Cruelty Free). The article explains with facts that alternative methods

    are more effective than animal testing, so we should not continue the practice.

    Millions of animals have been killed and they have been treated wrong in order to

    practice animal testing if animal testing continues many animals will die in vain because animal

    testing is not necessary will you aprove this practice?

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