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    More than 100 million animals are killed in the United States annually for biology lessons, medical training, curiosity-driven testing, and chemical, drug, food, and cosmetics testing. Animal testing in America has lasted for many years. It has long been viewed as a way to find cures for human diseases and test the safety of consumer products. However, animal testing is very costly and wastes time compared to other options. Many test subjects even die due to experiments. Human anatomy is also very

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    Each year over 100 million animals are abused and tortured by US labs. There must be an elimination of this testing because it is inhumane to treat animals in that manner, there is also different methods of testing products that don't involve animals, and lastly, many countries around the world already have taken the giant step in eliminating the testing. Animals are suffering in labs up to two years straight without any form of rest time from testing. These animals undergo extreme amounts of stress

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    Although animal testing helps with medical research. It is not right, since it is basically animal cruelty. Animal testing is wrong in many ways, since animals don’t know what’s going on. So the big question is, is animal testing really necessary? Animal testing happens every day in laboratories. Animals shouldn’t have to be harmed when being tested on, they have feelings just like humans do. There are many different kinds of animals that get tested on such as: rats, mice, rabbits, hamsters, and

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    moment thousands of animals are strapped down in laboratories, being injected, poked, prodded, gassed, and even killed, for humans to be able to use the medicine we have access to today. Whether it is ibuprofen, eye drops, tums, etc. , the majority of medicine nowadays is tested extensively on innocent animals in various ways. Animal welfare acts are in place, but they do not protect animals in the ways they should. More acts and laws should be put into place to protect all animals, not just cats, dogs

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    makeup. You gladly put it on your face, but where did it come from? How many animals suffered to get you that makeup?As an animal lover, I wanted to make sure that everyone knew what happens when animals are tested for cosmetics. Also, I wanted to encourage people to buy cosmetics that are not animal tested. While I was researching this topic, a question came to my mind. How can I educate people to prevent buying animal tested products? I really want this to happen, so I looked into that question

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    Animal testing is any scientific experiment or test, in which a live animal is forced to undergo something which will likely cause pain. Humans could choose whether or not they want to undergo painful tests, they receive benefits such as, money to compensate. However, animals have no say and end up dying. How come scientists are not placed in jail for murdering animals; however, human murderers are? Living inside a cage when you are helpless and having strangers torture you for tests is not desirable

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    year millions of animals are tested on and poisoned. “The term "animal testing" refers to procedures performed on living animals for purposes of research into basic biology and diseases, assessing the effectiveness of new medicinal products, and testing the human health and/or environmental safety of consumer and industry products such as cosmetics, household cleaners, food additives, pharmaceuticals and industrial/agro-chemicals.” (Humane Society International, 2016). Many animals are forced to inhale

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    spends billions of dollars on animal testing for cosmetics–but those animals in the lab are suffering, even when there are already more humane alternative ways to test these products. Annually, about $10-16 billion are funded to laboratories to test on animals, and more than a fourth of that cost goes to cosmetic testing.

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    Animal experimentation, also known as animal testing is the act of using some sort of species of animal to test anything from cosmetics to medicine. There is quite a controversy over whether or not animal testing is actually beneficial to humans, and if the animals used in experiments are treated humanely. Many people may believe that animal testing is a good alternative than testing on humans because they find it less of a risk, and more of a convenience Challenging this point of view is that animal

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    Tests Are For Students-Not Animals Animal testing; appealing or atrocious? Each year, more than 100 million animals are experimented on and killed in laboratories for medicinal training, classroom lessons, and chemical, drug, food, and cosmetics testing. Animals are not objects. Many Americans fight over the pros and cons of this two-sided argument. Although animal testing may further advance the medical field, scientific experimentation on animals is unfavorable among a large portion of the

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