Animal Testing

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Animal Testing
By Monica G., Tina P., Brittany O., and
Danielle P.
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What is animal Testing?
Animal testing is the testing of products on
animals. The animal is forced to have products
and product ingredients put on its skin or other
body part, inhale fumes, and other tests of that
sort. What is Vivisection? Vivisection is
live dissection. The meaning has been changed,
though, so it includes animal testing, animal
experimentation, and other forms of dissection.
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What You Can Do To Help!
To help prevent animal testing, do not buy
products from companies that test their items on
animals. List of companies that test their
products on animals Del Laboratories Allergan,
Inc. Arm Hammer Benckiser Block Drug Co.,
Inc. Boyle-Midway Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.
Calvin Klein Cosmetics AND MANY MANY MORE!
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Examples
On the following pages will be examples of what
scientists have done to animals.
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Britches was a baby macaque monkey. Some
heartless "scientists" wanted to know what
happens when a baby grows up without sight and
then regains it later. So they sewed Britches'
eyes shut. Britches was liberated by the Animal
Liberation Front and leads a decent life in a
shelter.
This unfortunate bunny had the bad luck to become
part of a skin toxicity test. There are a lot of
companies who don't test their products on
animals.
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This is a monkey that was intentionally infected
with syphilis.
Shelves of embalmed cats are stored at Carolina
Biological Supply Company, Burlington. PETA
investigators witnessed animals being embalmed
while still alive.
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This little gal, Geraldine, has an electrical
connector for an implanted electrode installed on
her forehead. The wires run through her head,
down her throat, and into her stomach. Geraldine
was liberated by the Animal Liberation Front.
This pitiful animal had to be killed after the
two heads kept attacking each other. ARRS
Administrator Note A lot of skeptical mail has
been received about this photo. It is not a
fraud. There is a long history of such
"research".
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Our Opinion
We think that animal testing is bad and should
not be continued. Animal testing should be done
on smaller organisms. Then, if they were done on
smaller organisms, animals would not be hurt.
Even mice, they have to complete the dumbest
tests and mazes and they end up dying anyway. All
of the animals hate living in steel cages and
want to be set free. Why should animals be
treated that way? All of us would probably risk
our lives for that, rather than watching those
poor animals suffer. Animals have feelings too!
Those scientists should not have the right to
take animals from their homes just so they could
die. Im sure animals try to escape from the
people that hurt them. I could just imagine the
pain the animals go through when the people try
to keep them from escaping. The scientists
probably dont even care and put them through so
much pain.
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Why Is Animal Testing Good?
Unfortunately, there are some reasons why animals
testing is good. There are many pros to animal
testing. Sometimes it will put an animal through
lots of pain, but it can save human lives.
Scientists will inject a lab animal with a virus
like AIDS or cancer, then try to cure them and if
it works, they will have developed a new cure for
whatever it was that the animal was injected
with. Animal testing can not only save the lives
of humans, but other animals too. If we did not
have medical animal many lives would be lost.
Animal testing plays a big role in trying to find
cures for certain diseases. Animal Testing plays
a big role in today's economy and if we did not
have it many people would lose their jobs, and
lives.
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Why Is Animal Testing Bad?
There are also many cons to animal testing. Some
are very sad, but it happens anyway. Sometimes
its like wasting the life of an animal. If the
animal won't take up the virus they will kill it
just to get rid of it. 2.7 million lab animals
die each year in Britain alone, and hundreds of
them are used just for their tissue. The people
doing this are wasting animal lives, and even if
the animal does take up the virus if the people's
cure does not work the animal will still die.
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Summary
Animal testing is when people test their products
on animals. We think that this should be stopped.
Also, vivisection should not be done, either.
Since animals have feelings, we do not think that
it is fair to them. They should be treated just
as fair as we are. There are several pros and
cons to this task. Animal testing is a way that
people find cures to diseases, but it is bad
because if the experiment does not work, then the
animal will die. People use animals instead of
humans because there are not enough people to go
around or willing to be vivisected upon. Also,
animals have similar organs to use with similar
functions. All in all, we are very upset with the
idea of animal testing, altogether.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Example Info. www.animalfrontline.nl/vivisectie/v
ivinl1-eng.php Pros Cons Info.
http//ls-staff.francisparker.org/KParish-Philp/fi
fthgrade/webpages/5H/apltesting.htm