Essay - Animal Experimentation This is a Paper that Concentrates on the...

Animal Experimentation

This is a paper that concentrates on the negative side of animal experimentation. There are four references used.

Introduction

Animal testing ***** becoming a major issue for many people today. The pictures of innocent *****s with electrodes attached to **********, as well as those showing the results of numerous chemical tests on skin and fur, haunt those who love animals.

Death and Injury Rate

In 2000, labs across ***** county reported they ***** 1,416,643 animals for experimentation.

The actual number, however, is over 20 million, since there are between 22 ***** 128 facilities that refuse to furnished the ***** ***** animals currently involved in tests. There ***** "tens of millions of animals (htt:// www.all-creatures.org/wlalw/fact-anexp-01.html)" being killed every year by facilities ***** care more about receiving grant money than ***** welfare of the *****.

Drug Testing

Pharmaceutical companies have been using animals for *****s in *****ir efforts to develop new drugs for humans. The problem ***** ***** animals is they ***** different body functions than *****. Animals have "circulatory, alimentary and nervous systems similar to those of humans (unknown, *****02)," but just a small difference ***** molecules ***** enough to cause a drug to have an opposite effect in humans.

***** examples of different ***** reactions are: humans can take aspir*****, ***** it is lethal for cats; arsenic is harmful to humans, but monkeys can take ***** without any ill effects; and while most people ***** take penicillin for infections, but it will kill guinea pigs (*****, 2002). The difference in the ana*****my of animals and humans is a significant reason not to do ***** testing on *****.

***** in the Lab

***** hard ***** imagine ***** cruelty some animals ***** subjected to during experimentati*****.

Last year, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a rese*****rcher was videotaped "using scissors ***** cut ***** heads off conscious, unanaesthetized animals before removing their brains (Heyde, 2002)." The researcher admitted doing it for convenience, though it violated university protocol. In the same lab, animals were being injected with tumor cells *****out proper authorization. ***** tumors were allowed "to grow so big they exceeded size limits permitted by the facility (Heyde, 2002)."

***** the United States, ***** that are still alive ***** thrown in trash cans or placed in freezers by uncaring researchers.

Tests Performed

Researchers perform a variety of cruel tests on animals and rati*****alize them ***** saying they are "necessary for the experiment (htt:// www.all-creatures.org/wlalw/fact-anexp-01.html)."

Animals are exposed to "addictive drugs, electric shock, food and water deprivation, caustic *****s, blinding, chemical ***** biological weapons and radiation (htt:// www.all-creatures.org/wlalw/fact-anexp-01.html)." The horrible thing is there ***** no restrictions on the tests that can be performed on the animals.

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***** *****'s world of tech*****logy, animals no longer need ***** be the ***** victims of medical schools ***** companies testing ***** products. Instead of dissecting ***** in labs, schools are finding computer programs ***** just as effective in teach*****g students anatomy. Cosmetic companies are starting to rely on human volunteers to test