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***** purpose of this paper is to introduce, discuss, and analyze the topic ***** animal research. Specifically, it will argue against using animals for research because it is cruel to the animals and this ***** can be accomplished in o*****r ways. Us*****g animals for research purposes in the scientific ***** medical communities has *****en an accepted practice for years, but it ***** come under fire as more people understand just how inhumanely these animals are treated. The animals cannot speak up for themselves, so animal rights activists do ***** for them, often in graphic and vocal ways. Using ********** for research is wrong, because it is cruel ***** ***** harms animals that have no way to defend *****. Animals should only be used for ***** in very specific situations, such as when the animal is not at all harmed by ***** research.

Wh***** ***** animal research? Simply put, it is the use of caged, laboratory ***** for ***** and ***** research. ***** ***** is eventually used to develop new products, new medical breakthroughs, ***** a deeper *****ing of medic*****l cond*****ions - hopefully ***** find a cure or a better way of treating ***** disease ***** affliction. However, *****s ***** also used in research for chemicals, beauty products, and just about anywhere scientists would not think ***** using humans as "guinea pigs." Instead, they use the guinea pigs *****selves, and this is what animal rights activ*****ts actively protest. *****, most people only have certain mental images of what goes on in an ***** ***** lab. Dr. Larry Carb*****e, an animal research veterinarian notes,

Research uses of *****s vary widely. Some animals are used to produce cells or tissues for use in test tubes and tissue culture. This may be ***** simple as humanely euthanizing an animal to collect ***** and organs. Or it could require several months ***** immunizing a r*****bbit to ***** blood samples rich in antibodies. ***** projects require complicated surgeries, as when surgeons ***** immunologists work *****gether to develop organ transplant procedures or to study organ rejection (Carbone 24).

While there ***** many forms of research, one of the ***** chilling aspects of this research is that the *****s are commonly killed at the end ***** the project, when ***** are of no fur*****r scientific ***** to the scientist. Carbone continues, "at the end of such a long procedure the animal ***** either be awakened from anesthesia or, ***** likely, euthanized" (Carbone 25). This is perhaps the most d*****turbing aspect of animal research - ***** animals serve only one purpose - scientific, and ***** the *****s are through with *****m, even healthy animals are ***** rather than given a*****ther chance at life.

Unfortun*****ely, ***** are not only used ***** abused in scientific *****. They ***** also often used in other forms of sociological and psychological research. For example, ***** the 1950s through the 1970s, according to author David DeGrazia, a researcher in Wisconsin studied primates and how total isolation and maternal