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The Pros and Cons

Animal Testing. Animal Testing. The Pros and Cons. Pros of Animal Testing. Medical Research Consumer Product Testing Education Research. Pros of Animal Testing. Medical Research : 1.used to save humans from illnesses or help them lead better, healthier lives

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The Pros and Cons

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  1. Animal Testing Animal Testing The Pros and Cons

  2. Pros of Animal Testing • Medical Research • Consumer Product Testing • Education Research

  3. Pros of Animal Testing • Medical Research: 1.used to save humans from illnesses or help them lead better, healthier lives 2.the studies are often beneficiary to animals such as the case of heartworm medicine 3.using animals with certain characteristics similar to ours to minimize the number used

  4. Pros of Animal Testing Research or Testing improved (treatment for) • Open-Heart Surgery – repair of the heart while blood flow is maintained mechanically • Rhesus Factor – Rh positive people have in blood, causes hemolysis and anemia • Hepatitis – inflammation of the liver caused by infectious and/toxic agents • Burns – caused by hot things such as fire or things on a fire • Memory Research • Psychiatric and Psychological Studies – to treat mental disorders or studying the mind • AIDS – caused by the advancement of HIV, causes susceptibility to a number of infections • Cancer Research – to find possible ways of treatment for cancer

  5. Cons of Animal Testing • Morality • Necessity/Validity • Usefulness

  6. Cons of Animal Testing Morality • Supporters say animals have the right to live their own lives peacefully. • Also said that we shouldn’t be allowed to mess with them just because we can.

  7. Cons of Animal Testing Necessity/Validity • Research-related deaths are considered… • Unnecessary • Morally not different from murder 2. Animal dissection is regarded as misleading.

  8. Cons of Animal Testing Usefulness • Some believe many of the goals of this type of testing are not significant. Ex: the blinding of rabbits for new mascara and other makeup • Effects of the drug on animal may differ from human reaction. • Being in unnatural conditions or pain and distress may cause inaccurate or consistent results.

  9. Animal Testing • Whether or not animal testing is right or wrong in any sense, it has lead to breakthroughs in medical technology and other studies. • Not all studies lead to positive results so the testing may have been a waste. By supporters it is considered a lesson learned that we know there may not be an effective cure or outcome of the tests.

  10. Animal Testing Pro-Testing Organizations Anti-Testing Organizations PETA BUAV AAVS SAEN ASPCA MACS • Pro-Test • Americans for Medical Progress • FBR

  11. Animal Testing • Nearly every state in the US has an anti-animal testing organization and almost every large country has the same.

  12. Bibliography Peter, Singer.Animal Liberation. Random House 1990 McCoy, J.J.. Animals in Research. 1993 www.soulcast.com/post/.../Animal - Testing/---the-pros-and-cons

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