... pigs, hamsters, mice, rats, monkeys, chimpanzees, horses, cattle, sheep, goats, and swine. As far as how many animals are used each year, estimates vary according to the source. Estimates in animal rights literature range from twenty to seventy million. However, the Office of Technology Assessment gives a figure of seventeen to twenty million, of which ninety percent are rodents and about one to ... in the number of animals used. So, the number of animals needed for research is reducing. Now I will go into those who are against using animal testing in medical research and their argument...

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... and products that had been implicated in cases of human poisoning. The debate over animal testing has become an ethical and philosophical issue. Many people argue that animal testing hurts the animals and is completely unethical because then we don't see the animals as having any rights. Some animal rights theorists argue that any creature that feels pain is equal to another that feels ... pain, humans included. Peter Singer, a professor of ethics at Princeton University, is often considered the Father of the animal rights movement, says in his book Animal Liberation, "If humans have bas...

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... questions: is it really necessary to take the lives of animals in the name of science and for the betterment of humanity? For animal rights activists, like People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the answer is no. PETA pressures labs into halting experiments because they believe ... and pain, the alternatives are insufficient for now, and most importantly the information obtained from experimentation is irreplaceable. While animal rights groups such as PETA advocate abolishing all animal testing that inflicts pain on animals, proponents of testing cite laws and regulations, ...

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... questions: is it really necessary to take the lives of animals in the name of science and for the betterment of humanity? For animal rights activists, like People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the answer is no. PETA pressures labs into halting experiments because they believe ... and pain, the alternatives are insufficient for now, and most importantly the information obtained from experimentation is irreplaceable. While animal rights groups such as PETA advocate abolishing all animal testing that inflicts pain on animals, proponents of testing cite laws and regulations, ...

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... test may be replaced entirely by methods involving the use of chicken eggs or cell cultures taken from a variety of sources (Hyde 18). Henry Spira, along with many other animal rights activists, deserves the credit for changing the way cosmetics are tested. These activists saved the lives of many rabbits through creative and nonviolent movements. One of Spira's dramatic efforts was ... his 1980 protest against the cosmetic manufacturer Revlon. Spira and other animal rights activists ran full-page ads in newspapers showing bandaged white rabbits with the caption; "How many rabbits does R...

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... , hundreds of animals will have had their eyes, skin or gastrointestinal systems unnecessarily burned or destroyed (Sequoia, 27). Two of the most famous animal tests are the Draize, or eye irritancy test and the LD50, Lethal Dose 50. The Draize test is performed almost exclusively on albino rabbits, ... are rarely, if ever, used in situation of actual human poisoning. The skin irritancy test, similar to the eye irritancy test, is where an animal, most commonly a rodent, has a highly concentrated solution of a chemical in question applied to their skin. Their skin is then observed for sig...

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... end the use of laboratory animals in the search for treatment and cures. Their well financed anti-research disinformation campaign is not the only weapon used by animal rights activists. The more extreme animal rights activists have used tactics of intimidation and terrorism, for example: April 26,1997, activists were arrested when they tried to force their way into Yerkes Regional ... Primate center during a protest. July 21,1997, The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) set fire to Cavel West, a horse rendering plan. July 5,1998, The ALF broke into a laboratory at Cornell ... transplant tec...

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... and mice, and less than 3% are cats and dogs while non-human primates account for 2%" ( ). The animal rights issue is an emotional one. For decades the value of animal research has been grossly overrated. Many corporations test on animals, but probably the largest is Proctor & Gamble. People ... interactions that occur in an entire living system. Countless medical treatments, techniques, and technologies have come about, at least in part, through animal experimentation. The development of immunization against such diseases as polio, diphtheria, mumps, measles, rubella, pertussis, and he...

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Animal Rights One of the most touchy aspects of our relationship with animals is the use of animals in laboratory sciences. Some ... designed to yield information about possible treatments or antidotes. the Draize is inhumane. Substances such as oven cleaners and paint removers cause obvious pain and suffering. Because animal and humans differ in medically important ways, results from the Draize test do not necessarily apply to humans. Rabbit eyes differ significantly from human eyes: rabbits possess ... documentation of the results. I concluded that since there was no documented differences...

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... responsible for chicken cholera and anthrax. (6) As Louis Pasteur did further studies with rabbits and guinea pigs, he injected infectious diseases inside of animal's and then developed a vaccine that would fight against those certain disease, like anthrax and cholera. (6) Louis Pasteur was and is not ... Pavlov, conducted a research on digestion on dogs. (5) Even though Ivan did not develop a cure or a vaccine he still conducted research on an animal, specifically a dog. Pavlov conducted research in the 1890's by surgically implanting tubes into the checks of dogs to study the reflexive ...

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