... 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 not involve or harm animals' lives. Animal testing in the cosmetic industry should be banned, because it is inhumane, expensive and ... the right representation for humans. Difference in skin does not lead to accurate results, therefore the experimental process in flawed. Inaccurate data makes these tests torture and not science.        Cosmetic testing on animals is cruel and inhumane. One of the experiments used in animal testin...

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... attempt to find cures for cancer, Alzheimer's, AIDS, motor neurone disease, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, Multiple Sclerosis, asthma, arthritis and a host of other ailments. However, animal rights activists say these tests are cruel, inhumane and unnecessary. "Animals are different to humans in many ways - genetically, anatomically, physiology, emotionally and socially," said a spokesperson for Anti Animal Cruelty. "Therefore it is clear ... and cannot blink their eyes for relief because they are held open by clips. Severe eye ulceration and blindness has resulted and sometimes, the ra...

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... were done on polio-the in vitro work, which was awarded the Nobel prize and which did not involve animals, and the subsequent animal tests, in which close to one million animals were killed and which the Nobel committee refused to recognize as anything more that wasteful. Also, ... by using human clinical and epidemiological studies, cadavers, and computer simulators which are faster, more reliable, less expensive, and more humane than animal tests. Scientists have developed, from human brain cells, a model "microbrain" with which to study tumors, as well as artificial skin and bone marr...

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... animal experiments concern the need to protect human life. The gains in human health and well being outweigh the cost in animal suffering. It would be immoral to conduct such tests on humans, so animals serve as stand-ins for many kinds of testing and research. Those who support animal testing may care deeply about animals but don't place their life ... through animal experimentation. Major development of immunization against diseases involved research compiled through animal testing. Arguments against animal testing may question whether anyone has the right to perform such tests, if th...

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... the past two centuries. In my opinion, it is morally inhumane to torture our animals. Every year, millions of animals suffer and die in painful tests to determine the safety of cosmetics. Substances such as eye shadow and soap are tested on rabbits, rats, guinea pigs, dogs, and other animals. ... 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 irritancy tests. For centuries, animals have been used in these types of research. (1) A restrained dog wa...

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... animal experiments concern the need to protect human life. The gains in human health and well being outweigh the cost in animal suffering. It would be immoral to conduct such tests on humans, so animals serve as stand-ins for many kinds of testing and research. Those who support animal testing may care deeply about animals but don't place their life ... through animal experimentation. Major development of immunization against diseases involved research compiled through animal testing. Arguments against animal testing may question whether anyone has the right to perform such tests, if th...

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... Reduction and refinement. There are many products and chemicals that are tested on animals for safety purposes. These include drugs, vaccines, cosmetics, household cleaners, packing materials and pesticides. The tests account for approximately only 10 to 20 percent (or 2 to 4 million) of animals in labs but raises issues of ethics and humaneness of poisoning and harming animals in order ... to market new cosmetic or household products. It raises the question of whether or not the data from these tests is applicable to humans. Although animal experimentation is responsible for a variety o...

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... cleaner in order to determine the toxicity. This causes their internal organs to rupture causing convulsions, massive bleeding, and eventual death. Both of these tests are cruel because they are very painful for the animals. Next, experts say animal testing is inaccurate and unnecessary. They say the Draize test ... is inaccurate because rabbits" cornea is thinner and more sensitive than a human's eye. Consequently, results of these tests cannot accurately be compare to humans. Toxicity tests are inaccurate because many animals actually die from the shear volume of the dosage they are gi...

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... therefore, they should not experiment on non-human animals. There must be more than 100 millions of animals that have been through all these kinds of harmful tests as well as being stuck in a cage inside a laboratory. Another good reason about animal testing is that it wastes our valued resources. Testing on animals ... waste of time and the gathering of information is not efficient. The Food and Drug Administration reports that 92 out of every 100 drugs that pass animal tests fail in humans. Testing on animals is not an efficient way for human medication because it is not guarantee that ...

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... ) are dying this way in excruciating pain". This is well backed up by a Mr Hamilton stating, "Most of these tests are unnecessary". This also shows us that the tests are carried out with little, if any success. This also shows us that these tests are not morally justifiable, and are barbaric and cruel. A Mr Bill Dyer quotes "the results have never been published ... explain, "There are numerous ways to explore the causes and cures for human illness without resorting to primitive and fruitless animal experiments ". They go on to say "They include laboratory tests using human tissues and g...

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... enrichment on mice with Huntington's disease under three conditions: large cage with nine other mice equipped with toys, a cage with a cardboard tube, and standard cage. Results from motor coordination tests proved that mice with the enriched cages did much better than those with standard cages; they also seemed healthier and happier despite their condition (qtd. in Newscientist.com). Lab animals ... them for work (Cothran 51). Ethnologists point out that some animals, such as dogs, cats, and primates practice behavior patterns, that the animals care for each other, and that tests can be ...

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... holes cut into them to place pacemakers onto their heart in order to induce irregular heartbeats. The dogs were then killed and dissected." There are minimal rules to these tests. No experiment, no matter how brutal or painful, is prohibited, and on top of all of it, no pain killers are required. The reason these despicable acts are allowed is ... not mean they do not feel it. The article, "Animal Testing," goes deeper and stirs more arguments by talking about the failed tests on animals. More specifically he discusses on how drugs that pass animal tests are not necessarily safe for hum...

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... water on laboratory animals for over twenty years and killed hundreds of thousands of animals only to prove what was already known. Many scientists prefer animal tests as opposed to non-animal tests even though "non-animal tests are often faster, cheaper, and their results are less subject to manipulation [ ]"(Sandler 46). The World Wildlife Foundation (WWF) and the Natural Resources Defense Council ... (NRDC) do not endorse non-animal testing because they cannot scientifically "validate" their relevance to human beings. Unless they can prove that non-animal tests are actually proving t...

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... water on laboratory animals for over twenty years and killed hundreds of thousands of animals only to prove what was already known. Many scientists prefer animal tests as opposed to non-animal tests even though "non-animal tests are often faster, cheaper, and their results are less subject to manipulation [ ]"(Sandler 46). The World Wildlife Foundation (WWF) and the Natural Resources Defense Council ... (NRDC) do not endorse non-animal testing because they cannot scientifically "validate" their relevance to human beings. Unless they can prove that non-animal tests are actually proving t...

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... water on laboratory animals for over twenty years and killed hundreds of thousands of animals only to prove what was already known. Many scientists prefer animal tests as opposed to non-animal tests even though "non-animal tests are often faster, cheaper, and their results are less subject to manipulation [ ]"(Sandler 46). The World Wildlife Foundation (WWF) and the Natural Resources Defense Council ... (NRDC) do not endorse non-animal testing because they cannot scientifically "validate" their relevance to human beings. Unless they can prove that non-animal tests are actually proving t...

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... and then destroyed. Each year about five million Mice, rats, dogs, cats, monkeys, horses, cows and pigs 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 by a tube, sometimes causing death ... effects, not revealed in animal studies. More than one hundred thousand people have been hospitalized and later died from toxic reactions to medications that were not predicted by animal tests. Many patients who were a...

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... for her, his big brown eyes just stares into the darkness. Animal testing is a cruel process in which scientists expose animals to painful, cruel the unnecessary tests often without the use of pain killers. Animal tests are done in order to help a company find out the possible harmful effect of their products on humans. Take for example the Draize test. Rabbits are ... ' of science. Substances that we use every day such as eye shadow, 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 h...

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... this money for human clinical and epidemiological studies, prevention programs, public health awareness and vitro tests. My solution is to use the new technology that has been developed. Vitro tests are conducted on live human cells that are cultured in petri dishes or test tubes. With these tests, scientist can find possible effects of a chemical on the human body with out the testing ... ...

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... humans and less wasteful. Likewise, wastefulness can also refer to monetary means. Since animal testing is expensive, other methods have proven more cost effective as stated by Mone "Animal-based tests take too long and are too expensive, they say, often requiring several years and millions of dollars or more to carry out" (1). Why then would we want to spend millions ... outcomes of a science experiment using a computer. Computer modeling techniques are lightning-fast, and many cell-based in vitro methods are less expensive and are at a much lower cost than animal tests. Animal testing...

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... biology of animals and diseases that afflict them. Should Animals Be Used for Research? The number of animals that suffer and die every year in chemical, food, drug, cosmetic, weapon tests, biology lessons, agricultural researches, dog and cat food trials, car-crash simulations, medical trainings and experiments, is bigger more than hundred million. Animals can be used in medical experiments because ... and therefore we know that animals feel the very same pain as humans. Because of testing, animals are being incarcerated, blinded, poisoned, diseased, mutilated and killed. There are man...

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... he is about 2 years old. When I play with him or when I take him out for 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 ... that every new drug that is produced or every new operating procedure that is discovered should be tested on animals. Another concern for this group is that many of the tests are ineffective and are non-essential. Rabbits...

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... torture of animals through testing is not a necessity for human survival. Every year, nearly 100 million animals die in research laboratories in order for scientists to perform outdated and inaccurate tests that prove no benefit to humans or to the animals that must die. Is it right to take a life against The question is, is it right to take the life ... the market. Plus many of the drugs that are beneficial to humans are dangerous or even fatal to animals. This shows that testing on animals is unreliable, but these awful tests still go on every day. The Physicians Committee for Respons...

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... sources, every year multi-millions of animals are used in experiments (Newkirk 139). "Animals from giraffes to gerbils are used for everything from forced aggression and induced fear experiments to tests on new football helmets and septic tank cleaner" (139). Facts such as this can have life-changing effects on a person with even the slightest concern for an animal's well being ... ...

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... "trembling and salivating- or die "during or soon after periods of continuous convulsive activity- " conducted by Michiko Okamoto of Cornell University, prompted Steve Siegel of TSu to call the tests "the worst of the worst- (Cowley 50). As word spread of Okamoto's subjects' demise, picketers soon bombarded her laboratory and inundated her with phone calls. Cornell and officials from the ... ...

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... . Certainly animals should be treated humanely, but animal subjects are often necessary in experiments to develop medicines that will save or improve human life. At Harvard's primate center in Southborough, tests are underway on an AIDS vaccine, an early test for Parkinson's disease, and treatments for drug addictions (Ethics and Animals). It has been handled badly, but their prime goal considered ... ...

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