... 100 million animals-including mice, rats, frogs, dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs, monkeys, fish, and birds are killed in U.S. laboratories for biology lessons, medical training, curiosity-driven experimentation, and chemical, drug, food, and cosmetics testing"(1). It's hard to believe, but in the U.S, no animal experiment is illegal no ... brings to human environment interactions. Now scientists have come up with a way to create human cells and tissues. Experiments tested on the human cells and tissues have known to be more accurate than animals. By creating human cells and t...

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... test and retest issues that are unnecessary. For instance, it is a fact that arsenic in drinking water causes cancer in humans. But the EPA tested arsenic enriched water on laboratory animals for over twenty years and killed hundreds of thousands of animals only to prove what was ... chemical is harmless to humans, they will not incorporate them into their research procedures (Sandler 46). Gina Solomon from the NRDC does not agree with the over testing of the animals but does accept that laboratory animal testing as well as non-animal, and human testing are valuable resources ... from d...

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... test and retest issues that are unnecessary. For instance, it is a fact that arsenic in drinking water causes cancer in humans. But the EPA tested arsenic enriched water on laboratory animals for over twenty years and killed hundreds of thousands of animals only to prove what was ... chemical is harmless to humans, they will not incorporate them into their research procedures (Sandler 46). Gina Solomon from the NRDC does not agree with the over testing of the animals but does accept that laboratory animal testing as well as non-animal, and human testing are valuable resources ... from d...

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... animals to cutting operations, especially in order to advance physiological and pathological knowledge (878). Vivisection is the word that explains animal testing and it can be found throughout our society. In the classroom, young people take part in dissection of frogs, bugs, worms, and other creatures in order to gain understanding of the particular body systems. It is used in some cases to understand ... the cause of death of an individual and scientists use animal testing to gain understanding to the cause and treatment of many common ailments ... . The safety testing of chemicals a...

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... Scientists use rodents rather than dogs and cats, and have been able to develop alternatives and somewhat humane ways of testing on them such as the duplication of human cells through computer technology. Some companies in the United States have already begun research on alternative methods. MatTek, a government-run corporation, grows human tissues that take only 4 weeks to be ready ... testing on animals first, then on humans, for the obvious reason that human life is considered more precious than animals. The truth is that many different animals are utilized for scientific experiments...

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