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The Pros And Cons Of Animal Testing

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Recently, a chilling video showing a dog’s dismembered head attached by machine bombards my mind. It was a revolutionary experimental outcome published in 1941 by soviet scientists who had successfully invented a heart-lungs device, ‘Auto-ejector’, which he used to reanimate the severed head of a dog. The device worked as a blood circulation system which circulates the blood around the head with two mechanically operated diaphragm pumps to restore basic motor function of the dog’s head and keep it alive. Within the video, scientists have shown the dog’s head reacting with a variety of stimuli: it flinched as the hammer banged and its eyes blinked as the light shone. Remarks that agree or disagree the action flooded the comment section, for …show more content…

Plenty of Animal rights organizations such ASPCA, Animal Defense League, ALB, have been resisting and protesting for a long time while numerous of animal researches are still implementing as regular. Starting along with philosophic concept of animal rights, the dissenters request law that completely banned any of the un-human activities that involved in animal testing to avoid suffering. As our world is developing rapidly together with increasing needs of advanced techniques, an expanding population start to accept or even contributed into animal testing as a way to attain new knowledge in biology, medicine and other areas, or to solve out specific problems. From this aspect, we do see a mass number of benefits that animal testing has brought to human …show more content…

But there are still many nations around the world refuse to recognize the rights of animals at the contemporary time. This means, torments and excruciation could be used on animals if necessary. (ex: recording the reactions of animals towards a particular type of stimuli). Experimental animals such as mice, frogs are born to suffer and being tortured. Many are living in the labs for their entire life with a given amount of food while they are supposed to live in the capacious forests or around the beautiful lake under the azure sky. Moreover, their natural instincts are replaced by domestic docility affected under the influence of human involvement. Therefore, this behavior may always been seen as inhumane and violating the basic moral value. Additionally, if animals living in wild life are being caught and placed in laboratories, the natural habitats would be disrupted thus causing chaos and even extinction among

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