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Arguments Against Animal Testing

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Experimenting on animals has been a very controversial matter for the last few decades and a lot of people had many arguments about this topic, a statistic has been made and it was found that more than 15 million animals are used in experiments, 90% of the United States animals are used in laboratories, 12 million are used in Europe, till now people haven’t reach a solution to this matter yet. Some people agree with experimenting on animals for scientific and medication reasons while other people disagree with it for religious and ethical reasons.
Animals are just pets that you could raise at home, animals are used in scientific researches to help in making and developing medicines and it has been a great success since nearly every medical …show more content…

animal rights means that animals deserve to be treated like humans, certain kinds of consideration of what is in their best interests, regardless of whether they are “cute” useful to humans, or an endangered species and regardless of whether any human cares about them at all, scientist has discovered that researches on animals often yield irrelevant and uncertain result therefore we can’t depend our lives on animal researches and testing, in addition, animals that are used in experiments are commonly subjected to force, feeding, forced inhalation, food and water deprivation, prolonged periods of physical restraint, so imagine your self being tortured and submitted to force for no reason but to develop new medicines to others, it’s very cruel isn’t it? So why do you give this right to yourself and prevent animals from their rights? According to Lindsay Marshall in his article “Should Animals Be Used for Scientific or Commercial Testing?” he shows that “the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported in 2010 that 97,123 animals suffered pain during experiments while being given no anesthesia for relief, including 1,395 primates, 5,996 rabbits, 33,652 guinea pigs, and 48,015

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