... heart attack, stroke or kidney failure without animal research. In one year, more than one million Americans would lose vision in at least one eye because cataract Brobeck 2 surgery would be impossible without animal research. Also, smallpox would continue unchecked and many other people would join the two ... on cancer therapy. The research could enable Brobeck 4 doctors someday to treat leukemia, aplastic anemia and lymphoma patients. Dr. Murray claims that wearing red ribbons and hoping a cure for AIDS is found is not enough. People must actively support the scientists, doctors and vol...

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... Draize, who developed the method in 1944. The test consists of placing rabbits in stocks that immobilize their heads and then dropping the substance to be tested into one eye, using the other eye as a controller"(Regan 199). These tests are often conducted over elongated periods of time, and usually the fate of the animal is blindness, sometimes death, and always pain ... . Animal foods like meat, can raise the risk for cancer because of the compounds found in it. Vegetarians don't have to worry about heart disease associated with saturated fat from red meat. Another common argument is t...

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