Animal Experimentation Each year, more than 28 million animals are killed in laboratories across the United States alone. These animals endure cruel, unusual operations, and are then monitored on their health and behavior, left in pain by these surgical procedures for the purpose of scientific experimentation. The main goal of most of these tests is to recreate or stimulate the way a disease or injury would affect a human, and then test ideas on how to cure it. Personally, I believe that the interference between science and nature can be very risky, and while the difference may seem clear, there is a very thin line between what is moral, and what is not.
I choose to focus on acute toxicity testing on animals because it something that stood
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From what I have read and seen, I know that the experiments in those laboratories acute toxicity are inhumane and very unfair to the animals. They are raised in poor conditions only to be faced with cruel and abnormal tests and trials, some of which may not even have a solid purpose. However, any previous knowledge or opinions I have regarding this topic have been drawn from one point of view. One thing that I am definitely unfamiliar with is the exact benefits of these experiments. I can assume that vivisection has been beneficial and helpful in some cases, but also that it is extremely controversial. I understand that some animals may have similar DNA, but I still feel that most of the anatomy of humans and animals is significantly different. I figure what goes on in those laboratories, and is deliberately hidden from the public, is horrific, wrong, and from an ethical standpoint, wholly immoral, since no one in this industry wants it to be seen. One animal rights website states “Estimates of the number of animals tortured and killed annually in U.S. laboratories diverge widely - from 17 to 70 million animals [...] Because [mice,rats,birds] are not covered by the Act, they remain uncounted and we can only guess at how many actually