... a topic that is very important to me. Ever since I was a little girl, my mother always told me to look on every product I purchased, to make sure the company did not test on animals. Even to this day I still look before I buy. Hopefully, by the time you've finished reading this essay, I will have somehow wavered your opinion on this controversial subject ... are used for experimentations. Animals are subjected die in lethal dose tests performed in the United States. During a lethal dose test, the experimental substance is forced into the animals throats, or is pumped into their stomachs...

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... , farm animals, dogs, cats, and nonhuman primates, are used in animal testing annually worldwide ("Soundearth.com," 2010). These animals are used in an effort to test for the safety and efficacy of products for humans. The Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration require animal testing for the marketing and distribution of chemicals, vaccines ... simulate the human body adequately, even though the anatomy of some animals is very similar to humans. Given that both have very complex biological systems, it is often difficult to test all drugs and treatments. Addit...

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... . These rabbits also have less well-developed tearing mechanisms, and as a result, they are unable to protect themselves by washing the irritating substances from their eyes. "The eye irritancy test compounds often cause irreparable damage to the animals" eyes, leaving them ulcerated and bleeding." They are truly helpless victims, and they suffer terrible pain and anxiety. Animals that manage to ... acute toxicity levels of certain ingredients on live animals." Fifty refers to the minimum percentage of animals that must die before the experiment is considered complete. During a typical L...

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... products. People's bodys are different from animals bodys, and how the animals reaction would be would probably be diferent then ours, so why would they test some things that might not be healthy for us on the animals."Cats lack an enzyme that makes it possible for them to metabolize ibprofen". "The ... Penicilin,imuran,meclazine,chloroform,stryschnine and aspirin. It is obvious that animals are not the same as humans. Kinds of tests There is a test called a "draize test" and it is a test that is named after it's inventor. They use white albino rabbits because there eyes don't tear very m...

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... products. People's bodys are different from animals bodys, and how the animals reaction would be would probably be diferent then ours, so why would they test some things that might not be healthy for us on the animals."Cats lack an enzyme that makes it possible for them to metabolize ibprofen". "The ... Penicilin,imuran,meclazine,chloroform,stryschnine and aspirin. It is obvious that animals are not the same as humans. Kinds of tests There is a test called a "draize test" and it is a test that is named after it's inventor. They use white albino rabbits because there eyes don't tear very m...

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... greatly contributed to providing society with the best medical breakthroughs to improve our lives. I will explain what products are tested on animals and what test are conducted and their benefits, what alternatives are to animal testing and their problems, and the concept of Replacement, Reduction and refinement. There are ... reported each year. Another disease that animal testing has helped is heart disease. According to a report from the American Heart Association the decline of death rates from heart disease since the 1960's is a result of new methods of treatment. Many of the treat...

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... procedure. This process which consists of cutting the animals vocal chords to silence the specimen. The most common type of test used by corporations is the Draize test. The Draize test is used for testing the safety of the corporation's product. Sidney Gidens put it best in his essay entitled ... "The Use of Animals in Science", where Gidens says "Named after it's inventor, John 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 ... November 93...

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... techniques that go into testing cosmetics and pharmaceuticals. Animal testing is an unnecessarily cruel and inaccurate process that should not be used to test cosmetic products and new drugs today. People may argue that using animals in scientific experiments has led to many discoveries that have improved ... for the 'benefit' of humans, the government is highly involved too. The government is behind most animal experimentation's, and requires all chemical companies to test on animals to simulate a human's reaction. The government does their own testing, and in just one experiment, could...

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... such as eye shadow and soap are tested on rabbits, rats, guinea pigs, dogs, and other animals. All of this, despite the fact that the test results don't help prevent or treat human illness or injury. Some of the tests used on animals are eye irritancy tests, acute toxicity tests, and skin ... dog will be tested in the same way for toothpaste, another for face powder. This is known as the notorious LD-50 test. The test is complete when 50% of the test animals die. The surviving 50% are killed, autopsied and analyzed to determine which organs and systems were affected and why they didn ......

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... manufacturers still use animal data to question the harmful effects of their products. The drugs Oraflex, Selacryn, Zomax, Suprol and Meritol produced such adverse side effects in humans, including death, that they were removed from the market, though animal experimentation had predicted them all to be safe. One of the few studies that examined the differences in species reactions, ... available alternatives to animal testing; some of which include cell cultures; tissue cultures; corneas from eye banks; and sophisticated computer and mathematical models (PETA factsheet). The non-animal t...

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... the eyes progressive. As the effect on animals is researched, it becomes one of the major problems is caused by the Draize Test. "Liquid, flake, granule, and deterioration is recorded. The Draize test is responsible for the suffering and death of thousands of rabbits each year in the United States but does not prevent or help cure human injury." With no benefits to ... is administered by injecting or force feeding half of a lethal dosage of toxins to animals. "The LD50 test can last up to 14 days, during which time animals experience symptoms such as lung hemorrhage, breathing difficult...

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... Feline Leukemia Anthrax Tetanus Hepatitis Nutrition: Heart disease in cats was eliminated supplementing diets with Taurine. This also prevented Feline Urologic Syndrome (FUS) Heartworm: A rapid and accurate test now facilitates diagnosis of this insect-transmitted disease. Heartworm medication, also discovered through animal experimentation is one of the most important advances in the history Lime Disease: Spread ... 1950's Disease marked by rise in body temperature, Prevention of Polio: followed by depression, spasms respiratory or A disease marked by symptoms ranging from mild cardiac...

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... aid the large cost of animals experimentation.(5) Although it has been proven, that in many cases, rats and mice are not an accurate subject to test medicines on, their popularity has only grown larger.(6) Mechanize (a travel sickness drug) caused severe deformities in rats, but not in humans, whereas Thalidomide ... no reaction in rats but cause deformities in humans.(9) This is only one of the many cases where mice and rats have been found as faulty test subjects. Dogs have a cardiovascular and respiratory system similar to that of a human. Cats have a neurological system similar to ou...

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... such as AIDS and coronary artery disease only affect humans, and only humans can get lung cancer from smoking cigarettes (NAVS). Because of this, animal test results frequently do not accurately represent the outcome of when a human has the same procedure or takes the same drug. This theory is evident in ... one of these medications may be rather effective with humans. For all we know, new and promising treatments may be overlooked every time an animal test is unsuccessful (NAVS). Also, because animals lack the ability to communicate with humans verbally, scientists have no idea as to w...

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... , and there are humane alternatives. First, vivisection is very cruel and painful for the animals. Two main forms of product testing are the Draize Eye Irritancy Test and toxicity test. The Draize test involves dripping the test substance into a rabbit's eye and recording the damage over 3-21 days. The rabbits are confined in restraining devices to prevent them from clawing at the painful ... toxicity or lethal dose test. This test indicates the amount of a given substance, which is necessary to kill a certain species. Animals are forced fed, injected, or forced to inhale substances such...

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... their purpose. Although Vivisection has been taking place since the seventeenth century nothing has happened to stop the inequitable situation. Vivisection experiments fall into three categories: animal testing (attempts to test the toxicity of drugs and substances), experimental research on animals (study of human disease), dissection and Practice Surgery (teaching medical students anatomy and surgical techniques). One should argue that ... have been animal- tested. Every year, thousands of new cosmetic, personal care items and household products are introduced into the marketplace. With...

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... aid the large cost of animals experimentation. Although it has been proven, that in many cases, rats and mice are not an accurate subject to test medicines on; their popularity has only grown larger. Mechanize (a travel sickness drug) caused severe deformities in rats, but not in humans, whereas Thalidomide ... this first introduction to the benefits of eye irritancy tests its use began more useful. This method of toxicity tests is now used to test everything from shampoo to pesticides. Anti-vivisection activists consider this type of testing the most cruel because it directly damages a ...

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... pharmaceutical products are required by law to be tested on animals? Answer: None Yes that is right. There is NO law that requires companies to test their personal care and household products on animals before selling them to consumers! Just picture this. Captured from the wilderness with his mother a young ... soap, furniture polish , may be tested on rats, rabbits, guinea pigs, dogs, cats and many other animals These tests are mainly used to test the degree of harm of the product and their ingredients on the human body. This is challenged by the point that animal testing is a scientifi...

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... from the lethal chemicals injected into their skin that lead to violent seizures and painful death. Millions of animals suffer like this just for the testing process of a product's ingredients. No product is worth the death of so many animals when there are many other, more efficient tests that do ... fetuses are closest to a human's. They also blind rabbits and beagles with chemicals because their eyes closely resemble humans. If companies and experimenters test on animals because they are enough like us to provide accurate results, then they should realize that animals are, indeed, like...

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... their will. The experiment is ended when the scientist feels that the animal is about to suffocate and results are then recorded. The animal is then removed and put to death. One D.V.M responded to the experiment, " "The only conclusion I can reach is that tremendous pain and suffering are being inflicted upon helpless dogs under the guise of research, and the results ... effects on humans this to contributes to the unnecessary experiments done on animals. Thousands of Americans every year are being diagnosed with lung disease. They in which would make exquisite test subjects for an exp...

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... two main reasons. The first one is that they want to find out more about animals themselves and the second is that they want to test different substances and treatments to see if they can harm human beings. Therefore, by testing them on animals that serve as living bodies they ... human benefits, which provides medical treatments and can save lives. Their first priority is the reduction of human suffering. The prevention of animal suffering or death, although still important, is secondary to that. Allowing animal suffering is justifiable if the certain experiment will have an outcome as a...

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... benefit of research on dogs, without animal research (Murray). Lack of medication to control high blood pressure would cause sixty million Americans to risk death from heart attack, stroke or kidney failure without animal research. In one year, more than one million Americans would lose vision in at least ... ). Brobeck 5 Some animal welfare organizations do not believe animals should be made to suffer in order to produce a better lipstick. The Draize eye-irritation test is one procedure that has raised a great deal of controversy. In the spring of 1933 a woman known as Mrs. Brown appli...

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... a run, actually he takes me; I can't help but wonder how someone could possibly do harmful tests on innocent animals like Gordon. Every year, millions of animals undergo painful suffering or death as a result of scientific research into the effects of drugs, food additives, cosmetics and other chemical products. While some people think animal testing is necessary, others are upset by what ... they see as needless suffering. Many medical treatments and procedures have been developed from experiments on animals. Since animals share many features with humans, scientists use animals to test...

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... the safety evaluations the Food and Drug Administration make marketers perform before releasing a new product, the number of animals being tested is rising dramatically. With the fear of lawsuits, marketers test their products on animals for a long period of time before exposing it to the public. Pressure form the consumer lobby along with the increasing number of substances, ranging from drugs ... conducted expensive tests and research, hoping to lessen the number of injuries causing permanent and devastating disabilities, such as blindness, deafness, loss of memory, emotional instabil...

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... Lab animals are being taught and persuaded to partake in experiments, rather than using coercion (Newscientist.com). Animals will work with the scientists, rather than against them (Newscientist.com). Test results will also be better because the animals aren't stressed (Newscientist.com). There will also be welfare benefits due to animals not being sedated or restrained (Newscientist.com). Animal Experimentation ... may nonchalantly encourage animal abuse elsewhere (PETA). For example, serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer attributed his fascination with murder and mutilation to classroom dissec...

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