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    One of the biggest areas on where people gather around and protest is when they’re fighting agents animals testing. As well as the years has pasted on protesting on animals, it became more sires in increased in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Many cosmetics companies been testing on animals throughout the years there is also many that have not. The cosmetics line LUSH has been fighting over animals testing for over thirty years and will continue to fight for their right according to the company. When LUSH

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    Every year a variety of animals are put into experiments in laboratories. They are tested using new substances, ointments, nasal spray and many more products. It has been seen throughout our lives where we see pictures or articles that talk about how animals are tortured and abused in these laboratories. From all this, there have been many organizations that started a movement to ban animal testing. This new movement has received a lot of popularity from the people. It has made many companies that

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    are twenty-six million animals involuntarily tested on annually, that partake in horrendous experiments daily, to test production safety, but people don’t realize that there will always be a human tested on first. Animals have been used for the last fifty years for medical and drug research, and are supposedly able to serve as “models” for the human body, undertaking the hazardous conditions of the experiments. Animal testing is unethical and inhumane, and alternative testing methods should be more

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    chickens and 150 million cattle, pigs and sheep annually, yet we only use around 26 million animals for research, 95% of which are rodents, birds, and fish” (U.S Statistics, 1). Over the years animal testing has become more humane with their practices. Animals themselves benefit from the testing, but most counterclaims are relying on the backing of ethical appeal. Therefore, to hamper the progression of animal testing would be to hamper medical advancements as a whole, the result of which will have reverberating

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    Animal testing dates back to the Greeks and Romans. Philosophers like Aristotle would dissect live animals to study the systems of the body. Backs then animals were thought to be lesser then humans because they could not communicate and they were thought to have a simpler brain function then human. So no one cared about the animals being harmed. The ethics of animal testing are said not to have been questionable until someone’s cow was stolen in order perform experiment on. Today animal testing is

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    Animal Testing

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    Introduction Every year, millions of animals are killed by the cosmetic companies to test their products. These companies use powerful drugs and lotions upon innocent animals to record the fatal side effects only to repeat the experiment over and over again regardless of the creatures’ pain and suffering. They also give various reasons to justify the cosmetic animal testing. The cosmetic companies claim that they test on animals to establish the safety of their products and ingredients for consumers

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    Animal Testing Inhumane

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    Animal testing is a hotly debated topic among many people. It is the use of animals for research purposes, or to test various new medicines or products. The goal is to see how the animals will react before the products are used for human consumption. The problems arise with the issue of ethics and whether or not the results will actually translate to humans. Those in favor of animal testing will say that animal testing is beneficial, and that the life of a human should be prioritized before other

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    Animal experimentation is animal research, it is the use of animals in experiments that seek to control the variables that affect the behavior or biological system under study. Humans and chimpanzees are scientifically similar in genetics, that doesn’t mean people are the same as them. Animals — specifically mice are some of the most common animals to be used for experimentation because of how cheap they are and it’s easy for researchers to breed them. Although animal experimentation does some good

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    It seems like the use of animals as test subjects can be viewed as helpful but immoral. The belief behind this, which is still debatable, is that animals help prosper information to scientists. While critics challenge the idea animal testing is moral, other thoughts include the importance of animals’ lives used as subjects are valuable and should not be overshadowed by humans’ mindsets that animals are inferior. Throughout the United States, animal testing has been allowed since 1922. According

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    already banned animal testing for cosmetics, and the sale or import of newly animal-tested beauty products. Major companies have turned their backs completely on animal testing and no longer use ingredients that were tested on animals – and a number of animal tests have been completely replaced with superior, cheaper and more effective non-animal methods. Proponents of animal testing say that it has enabled the development of many life-saving treatments for both humans and animals, that there is

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