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Animal Testing Is Cruel And Inhumane

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Throughout thousands of years, animal testing has been proven to be beneficial for the human race. While it has done a wonderful job for us, it has only injured, killed and put an enormous amount of pain on animals. The exact number of animals used in research yearly is unknown, due to official government statistics not including mice, rats, birds, fish, or other animals used for testing: some estimates put the total number to be 26 million. The use of animals for scientific research is cruel and inhumane, while both humans and animals share similar traits, they are both made up of completely different genes making them poor test subjects to begin with and may mislead or cause side effects for both parties. In the US the federal Animal Welfare Act …show more content…

Such was the case for what is known as the thalidomide disaster of 1950. Thalidomide was marketed as a sleeping pill safe, even for pregnant women, however, it caused 10, 000 of babies to be born with severe deformities, most of the cases where of children with malformed limbs. During the testing, scientist realised it was impossible to achieve an LD50level or a deadly overdose. Results of the animal testing did not include looking at the effects of the drug during pregnancy. After the withdrawal of Thalidomide from the market, it was tested once again this time on pregnant mice, rats, and guinea pigs which resulted in negative results. It was then found that one strain of rabbit (the New Zealand white rabbit) was susceptible, while cats, hamsters, rats, and mice were found to be sensitive to extremely high doses. Not only that, some drugs, such as Aspirin, is highly lethal to most animals thus giving erroneous

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Studies have shown half of the products tested on these animals do not have the same outcome when a human tries it out. As laboratories test on these animals if not affected they do not disturb them out to the public. The animals die due to the fact they injected them with a virus or an infection and can not find the cure for it. Sometimes these injections are too strong for the animals to take and die with in seconds after the shot. Third, animal testing is very expensive.

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But the bad news is the effect on humans because it causes a heart attack and more than 20,000 died of a sudden heart attack. Most of the drugs tested on animals, approximately 94% found that the failure occurred in experiments with humans. More than 100 types of medicines that were invented to treat stroke can affect animals, but completely failed in humans. Including vaccines for the treatment of HIV more than 85% works well in mammals but failed in humans as well.

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Poor defenseless animals fight for their lives every day to test out products they have no use for. These poor sweet creatures have been taken away their right to live to be caged and mistreated and they can’t do anything but sit there and take it. Day to day, more and more animals are dying at the cruel hands of these scientists. Animal Testing is an act of animal cruelty, because it is inhumane, there are other methods that can be used to avoid harming innocent animals and animals are very different from

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Although it can show what is safe and unsafe for human use, the government should not allow testing on animals because it could make the human trial more high risk. Also it is inhumane and unfair to the animal. The total number of animals killed each year from testing is 19,500,000.

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Millions upon millions of animals are killed mercilessly every year due to these experiments. “Most animal experiments are not relevant to human health, they do not contribute meaningfully to medical advances and many are undertaken simply out of curiosity and do not even pretend to hold promise for curing illnesses” (Animal). Not only does this testing waste animal lives, but humans as well. Because animal testing is so ineffective, many humans have contracted illness, irritations, mental problems, etc. because of these drugs being successful on animals and not humans.

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As seen in the source “Animal Testing-ProCon.org” which states “Some chemicals that are ineffective on, or harmful to, animals prove valuable when used by humans. Aspirin, for example, is dangerous for some animal species. Intravenous vitamin C has shown to be effective in treating sepsis in humans, but makes no difference to mice. Fk-506 (tacrolimus), used to lower the risk of organ transplant rejection, was "almost shelved" because of animal test results, according to neurologist Aysha Akhtar, MD, MPH.report on Slate.com stated that a "source of human suffering may be the dozens of promising drugs that get shelved when they cause problems in animals that may not be relevant for humans.””

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Arthritis tests on animals were made and had a positive effect on mice, however, when shelved, it gave more than 2,000 heart attacks and cardiac arrests. On June 1st,2006 a report on slate.com claimed, “The source of human suffering may be the dozens of promising drugs that get shelved when they cause problems in animals that may not be relevant to humans”. 94 percent of products that pass animal tests, fail in human clinical trials, therefore, animal test results are not reliable. Neurologist, Aysha Akhtar, MD, MPH, has found that over 100 stroke drugs and 85 HIV vaccines have worked on animals but failed in humans. A 2013 study published in “Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, found that 150 products used in human trials to reduce inflammation in critically ill patients failed.

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According to the National Center for Biotechnology Information, a clinical trial of Hepatitis B drug fialuridine had to be stopped because it caused severe liver damage in seven patients, five of whom died. It had been tested on animals first. The multiple claims of medicine tested on animals bringing harm to the very people it was designed to help shows that testing on animals poses a threat to not just animals, but humans as well. It 's a moot point to bring suffering to a living being if the reasoning behind the harm is

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