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Cole Halouska Animal Testing Rough Draft An Estimated 26 million animals are tested every year for scientific purposes. That’s a lot of animals potentially dying and being out of their habitat. It focuses on how we shouldn’t always test on animals. Provides contextual information about the hook necessary to understand the essay. Millions of animals are being tested and some survive but some also die. Testing on millions of animals is cruel and should be stopped. Animal testing is cruel and inhumane. They are mistreated. Animals experience physical restraint for long periods of time. The animals are experienced to prolonged periods of physical restraint, the infliction of burns and other wounds to study the healing process. It tells me that …show more content…

Animals and we have cellular differences size difference, metabolic and anatomic differences that even if something works on an animal doesn’t mean it’ll work on humans. Drugs passed on animals is not necessarily safe. Pregnant animals didn’t have deformed babies why’ll humans did. 10,000 babies were born with deformities because of a sleeping pill called thalidomide. It was tested on pregnant animals like mice, rats, guinea pigs and their babies weren’t born with deformities unless high dosage. The tests can be misleading. Some chemicals that are harmful to animals prove valuable when used by humans. In fact aspirin is dangerous for some animal species, but we use it all the time. Another drug Fk-506(tacrolimus) was almost cancelled because of animal test results. I don’t think we should use animals for testing because they may be close to our liking but their results can’t determine if a drug is safe or …show more content…

Test on animals may not work on humans. 94% of drugs that pass animal tests fails on human clinical trials. When they test drugs on animals and it works, most of the time it won’t work on humans. Tests on animals are flawed. 87% of the studies on rodents and primates failed to randomize the selection of animals. They chose the animal they wanted all the time so it was selection bias. Testing on animals is speciesism. All suffering is undesirable whether it is to humans or animals. Animals don’t have a say whether they want to be tested on or not. All suffering is undesirable on anything whether it is animals, humans. Testing on animals is a bad thing because they can’t say “no” to a test for reasons being they don’t have a

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