... Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938. The law gave the FDA permission to prohibit any type of cosmetics that may cause some kind of harm to people (Hunter, 30). This is why the tests on products used in or around the eye were so important to be tested. This law may have ... its Department of Environmental Health Science have been trying to get corporations to replace in vivo for toxicology with in vitro toxicology. In vitro is the test- tube science of using cells, tissues and organs, while in vivo are live animals. The Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing, also known as CAAT ... , and ...

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... cosmetics and household products still conduct painful and useless tests on live animals, even though no law requires them to do so. Some people, called anti-vivisectionists, are at one extreme in their concern. They want an abolition of all experiments on live animals. At the ... . 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 a nictitating membrane ( a thi...

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... cosmetics and household products still conduct painful and useless tests on live animals, even though no law requires them to do so. Some people, called anti-vivisectionists, are at one extreme in their concern. They want an abolition of all experiments on live animals. At the ... . 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 a nictitating membrane ( a thi...

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... in laboratories, a consciousness about our responsibility toward our relationship with animals has begun and continued to rise. As a result of pressures from animal advocacy groups such as PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) and AAVS (American Anti-Vivisection Society), a number of large corporations have ceased all animal testing in recent years. These corporations include Avon, ... 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). Th...

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... Welfare Act, particularly those concerning the workhorses (Horvitz 40). In a current NASA experiment called the Bion project, monkeys are hurtled into space to test for bone-marrow loss and motion sickness (Horvitz 40). This is a disgusting use of animals for research purposes. PETA dispatches undercover investigators to ... alternatives to animal testing because, they're not sure if they can make test subjects or computer programs, that will give them the information they need. If you think about it, animals do not resemble people either; therefore, that information would be just as in...

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... impact blows to their head,and would recieve head trauma severely. Some animals are take form ads in the paper saying "free to good home", these people dont know thta their pet is about to be sent to a lab to be tested on and probably killed. The animals are sometimes left in ... be continuing to test it, they are just killing more innocent animals and it is cruel! In this country everyone is soposed to be equal and no one is listining to how it should be. There is no law saying that animals should be tested on for cosmetics and household products. People's bodys are ... different from ...

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... continuing to test it, they are just killing more innocent animals and it is cruel! In this country everyone is soposed to be equal and no one is listining to how it should be. There is no law saying that animals should be tested on for cosmetics and household 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 ... four and we only walk on 2."(www.geocities.com/paws_n_tails/animaltestingfacts.html) Some e...

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... 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 ... on live tissue. The experiment involves a creature to be burned alive with such techniques as flame-throwers (a weapon so cruel people reframe to use it in act of war) until the charred flesh is vulnerable to be removed in large pieces while th...

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... 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 may think they aren"t contributing to the torture of animals, but Proctor & Gamble has over a hundred everyday products ... . Such a case is determining the lethal dose of radiation used in cancer therapy. Although researchers claim that they depend on animal test data to achieve medical advances, we should demand other means of research. The American Medical Association has stated that it be...

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... 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 our quality of life. However ... gall bladder and excrete bile very effectively. Journalist, Jackie Bartelmo states, "Ninety-two percent of drugs that passed animal testing failed clinical trials on people and every year more than 100,000 humans die from drugs that were successfully passed by animal tes...

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... helps 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 (a ... After 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 direc...

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... 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 ... between $200-$4000 (PETA). Plus, there is no dispute over whether or not extrapolated data is correct because of a difference of species of test subjects. Autopsy is one alternative to animal experimentation. An autopsy is a dissection of a cadaver, or dead body, with the intent of finding the ... au...

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... animals. On the other hand, research on animals is an important factor in understanding disease and developing ways to prevent it. Millions of people's lives have been saved because of the efforts put forth in experimentation with the use of animals. Animals are sacrificing their lives for ... 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 experiment that is beneficial to mankind. If we are trying to fix a problem with humans, then why would we ... in the same way...

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... 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 ... of Open Heart Surgery and into the heart to measure blood flow and Cardiac Pacemaker: pressure, diagnose and treat congenital Revolutionized treatment for people suffering from heart disease and narrowed passages. sever heart disease. Species studies: dogs Speci...

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... the infection, or drug into the animal's body. Another reason why the experiments fail is because humans have many different life styles. Some people are athletic, others are obese, part of the population drinks a lot of water, others smoke, and a few might be alcoholics. Therefore ... that is known to be closest to humans is the chimpanzee, sharing 99% of our DNA; but even chimpanzees have great differences from living people. Human's brains are completely different in size, volume, and structure compared to chimps. Eyes, vocal cords, lips, and behavior are also very ... Test on Animals...

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... the living? Maybe they would if they were presented with the facts about vivisection and the meat industry. The truth of the matter is, people don't love animals as much as they claim to, because they allow mistreatment, support companies that practice Vivisection, and the majority of the population ... grotesque 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 ...

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... that in cases benefiting mankind, animal experimentation is condonable. Animal activists find that experimentation can be more a problem then a benefactor. They feel that it only delays time till testing on people can begin. Animal experimentation can have mixed results because of the differences in the human and non-human physiology. This makes testing results unreliable in predicting a substance's reaction on a person ... the safety evaluations the Food and Drug Administration make marketers perform before releasing a new product, the number of animals being tested is rising dramatica...

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... 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 applied mascara to ... blind (Hyde 17-18). Luckily, new methods of testing for skin and eye safety have been introduced. Today, some alternatives to the Draize test are in limited use and a number of new tests are being developed. Researchers have developed tests that measure the safety of Brobeck 6 cosmetics ... provi...

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... when a doctor holds a child to administer a vaccination shot. For all surgeries and painful tests, sedatives and anesthetics must be utilized (United States Department of Agriculture 49). If the test will leave the animal permanently damaged, euthanasia must be administered before the anesthetic wears off (United States Department of Agriculture 48). For humans this topic is still being debated, but ... scientifically sound. When conducting a scientific experiment, all variables must be controlled, and running tests on random human subjects does not give reliable results. Assuming that a...

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... when a doctor holds a child to administer a vaccination shot. For all surgeries and painful tests, sedatives and anesthetics must be utilized (United States Department of Agriculture 49). If the test will leave the animal permanently damaged, euthanasia must be administered before the anesthetic wears off (United States Department of Agriculture 48). For humans this topic is still being debated, but ... scientifically sound. When conducting a scientific experiment, all variables must be controlled, and running tests on random human subjects does not give reliable results. Assuming that a...

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... barrier between humans and animals, humans have assumed that animals are inferior beings, when in fact; they have largely the same mental capacities that people exhibit. The recognition of animal sentience begs the question: should sentient animals have rights? If sentience, the very thing that was thought to ... and decency must be the core of the proper treatment of animals. The legalization of animal rights is controversial and due to its controversy, people try to provide alternate solutions that ideally fix the problem, but in the real-world context do nothing but prolong unnecessar...

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... year in numerous unreliable tests. More than 205,000 new drugs are marketed worldwide every year, most after undergoing the most common unreliable test method still in use: animal vivisection. The current system of drug testing has placed consumers in a dangerous predicament. According to the ... re-labeled or removed from the market. The following drugs passed safe in animal experiments but proved tragic consequences in humans: Opren: 3500 people suffered serious side effects including damage to skin, eyes, liver, and kidneys. Thalidomide: Caused about 10,000 birth defects worldwide Cli...

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... even if it has to do coming in the way of finding cure for life-threatening diseases like AIDS. A. Animal Rights Groups like People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and the underground international group Animal Liberation Front(ALF) have emerged as few big animal rights ... agree, and I am sure most of you agree that it does not make sense at all to injure lives of thousands of animals just to test some beauty products, etc. and for fur products. Infact, for this I might even appreciate their efforts. But it is not right to stop ... aspects, the results of animal studies ...

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... than 90 percent of them are bred specially for research and the proportion is increasing all time. However when a cure is sought for diseases affecting farm animals are used to test the treatment. A number of different species have been used in animal - based psychological research over the years. For example rats, mice, pigeons, cats. Rabbits, dogs, hamsters, chimpanzees, baboons, snakes, bats ... testing of animals, an alternative that achieves similar eductaional goals is avaliable. The cost of beauty is way too high, doing the right thing should be in everybodys interest. Some peopl...

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... companies have formulated the product from ingredients that have already been tested. So when the cosmetic distributor can accurately state that it did not test their products on animals, because of earlier animal testing. (1) Many individuals, mostly scientists, disagree with animal research, so why does the ... grow from development of antibiotics to transplants including: heart valve kidneys. (6) "Open heat surgery "which saves the lives of an estimated 440,000 people every year in the U.S. alone "is now routine, thanks to 20 years of animal research."" (6) Animal research is somethi...

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