... widely known for their undercover investigations in which many well-known universities, corporations, and organizations have been exposed for their cruel and inhumane experimentations on animals. PETA uncovered and released 70 hours of videotape that graphically displayed "appalling treatment of primates at the University of Pennsylvania head injury laboratory, resulting in government fines and the end of primate use there-(site). After ... and cruelties being committed against animals in the future. This organization's website is packed with tools to educate even the most nave individu...

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... law, thus is rarely administered. Despite all of this cruelty, not a single disease has been cured through vivisection in this century. 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 that animals are not to be used by humans for "food, clothing, entertainment, or ... to experiment on". PETAs stance is that any testing is painful, inhumane, and unnecessary when alternatives are available. The PETA website says that "animals, like humans, have interests that cannot be...

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... Frankie Trull, executive directory of the Foundation for Biomedical Research. At present, researchers at the California School of Medicine at Davis are infecting rhesus monkeys with simian AIDS to test treatment of the drug AZT (Cowley 52). Granted, most people recognize the fact that what we do to animals, one could never conscionably do to humans. As individuals, we each acknowledge ... violence as a solution, Caras recognizes the fact that violent acts have proved to be quite beneficial toward the cause of activist groups. It should be noted that while at times inhumane and cruel, an...

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... 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 treatments are based on data from animal testing. So what are the experiments conducted? There are two widely known tests. The Draize eye irritancy test and the ... the 3 R's. They are replacement, which means to substitute inanimate material for conscious animals, reduction of animals used to obtain information and refinement, which means trying to decrease the severity of inhumane proc...

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