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Even though the use of primate like chimpanzees and orangutans should not be used in medical testing, there are way too many benefits of using them rather than not. Many of humanities medical mysteries and problems could have been solved relatively easier than before with the use of them because of their genetic similarity, the ability to pin point the problem with the ability to find the cure, and the ability to test the vaccines and medicine. These animals are basically the back bone of the human race. They are the closest living things that are similar to people. This means that without them, there would be no chance of solving the problems that have arisen in the same manner of time as with them around.
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He is our Lord, our master, and our creator. I am a firm believer that something cannot come from nothing; every creation has a creator. How can you put so much faith in someone that you’ve never seen? Easy. God is like Oxgyen. You can’t see him, but you need him to survive. There’s confirmation of his existence everywhere; starting with nature. Words can’t describe the magnificence of the natural world. I’m unsure if it’s the depth of the ocean, the power packed into a hurricane, or the colorful hues of the simplest sunset, but whatever it is, there is something astonishing about the world we live in.
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That’s not all; the universe has been constantly expanding since it’s origin. It is unknown, how the universe began, but since 1927, scientists have argued for the Big Bang theory. At its simplest, the theory says the universe as we know it started with a small singularity, then inflated over the next 13.8 billion years to the cosmos that we know today. The universe had to expand with just enough force to keep it from reversing course and caving in on itself, but not so much force that stars and planets would unsuccessfully manifest.
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To reject the possibility that there’s an almighty being who created something as impressive as life, scientists have proposed ideas such as the multiverse theory. In accordance to this theory, the earth is a single planet in trillions of universes. This increases the possibility for there being at least one universe with conditions hospitable for life. The theory isn’t based on any hard evidence, which is why Brian Greene once referred to it as “high-risk science.” To declare the existence of a multiverse that we can’t prove requires the same amount of faith as it does to accept the existence of a God that we can’t see. The fact that the earth is so amazingly conditioned to provide humans and animals a hospitable home helps me to read Psalm 19:1 in a new light, “The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.”
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Another piece of evidence in favor of God’s existence would be the universal standard of right and wrong. The fact that the vast majority of us are virtuous beings that don’t spend our days conspiring evil, is good evidence that there is a God, and that God is good. In the world we live in, right and wrong mean something. Even if we disagree as to what right or wrong is, that doesn’t eliminate the category. Our people may disagree with whether it is right to have abortions, allow same-sex marriage, or authorize animal testing. But when it comes to basic human rights, it is agreed upon many that some moral standards are absolute.
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My path to faith did not come by reading an essay packed with arguments for God’s existence and love. My faith in God came after I knew with my mind and felt in my heart that something was not right with the world and something was not right with me. As a small creature in a huge universe, I had so many questions that lead me to call out for answers. Answers that were with me all along. They were lying in his word. The message of the prophet Isaiah describes God’s action in my life: In that day the deaf shall hear the words of a book, and out of their gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind shall see. The meek shall obtain fresh joy in the LORD, and the poor among mankind shall exult in the Holy One of Israel” (Isa 29:18-19). All of the arguments of the admirable philosophers will never lead the skeptic to know God until he realizes he’s deaf, blind, meek, and poor. I was once was deaf but now I clearly hear the words of his book. I once was blind but now I vividly see. By God’s grace, I believe in a God who I know is there, but whom I cannot see, at least not yet.
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I want you to close your eye and imagine the world before humans. What’s the first thing you think about? Is it dinosaurs? is it a green planet with no buildings? Or does your attention go beyond the plants and animals? Maybe your mind went somewhere more technical like to the layers of the earth’s atmosphere and how clear they were before humans inhabited the planet. The earth was said to be a better place before human beings decided to build and rebuild on the beautiful planet.
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Since the stone age, cavemen taught themselves to hunt and eat meat. There were no factories, there were no slaughterhouses, and there definitely wasn’t a high demand for food that caused animal extinction in those ages. So what changes? The answer is population. “Humans are just zero point zero one (0.01) percent of all life and yet we have managed to destroy eighty-three (83) percent of all wildlife including plants.”(Carrington). Humans have modified the environment to fit the needs of society. This has caused severe effects on the earth, which will become a worse problem if human overpopulation continues.
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Humans have built to their needs, whether it’s for housing, business buildings, or factories. This has caused deforestation, pollution, overconsumption, and everything that is harming the earth. We have been taught to not pay attention to the damages since they are for beneficial purposes only. Little do we know, or should I say not like to admit, that the planet won’t last long due to our consumption habits. Animals have been the first to experience the plague called “human beings.” They went from living a free life to be captured and stuffed in cages until they are needed for consumption. We don’t think about how the cow was treated before being slaughter when we are eating an in n
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We also don’t think about all the horrible things that make up a hotdog, and yet we still continue to eat them. We have become a race of greed and hunger where we will not stop until there is nothing left. We quickly remind others who dare stand up to animal cruelty that we as humans have right but we are just as quick to forget that animals have rights too. We are also quick to forget that, thanks to animal testing, we are still alive. “We must allow those beings which are similar (to humans) in all relevant respects have a similar right to life…some animals are sufficiently similar to humans in ‘all relevant respects’; thus, at least some animals have a right to life.”(Singer). I personally believe that animals deserve rights, they aren’t just objects to take for granted. We must be grateful for animals not only for their nutritional benefits but for helping fertilize plants and maintaining a healthy ecological balance on this earth. And yet we take this for granted because we want to satisfy our appetites. Humans in America are known for being overweight. This is due to all the junk we consume daily. All these processed and fried foods are causing a lot of damage to our bodies. If we don’t wipe out the planet first we will end up wiping ourselves out. “Food­ science experts have painted an increasingly grim picture of the public’s ability to cope with the industry’s formulations — from the body’s fragile controls on overeating to the hidden power of some processed foods to make people feel hungrier.”(Moss).
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All of these unhealthy habits come from knowing that a salad costs six dollars and a burger only costs two dollars. No one in their cheap mind would choose the salad over the burger. The fact that Americans eat way too much junk food can implicate that they don’t have a culture with a good food menu. I was raised in a family that ate mostly cultural foods. It was on rare occasion that my family and I were to eat out. Now as I’m older it seems as though I barely have time to eat at home. As busy individuals, always on a move, we need our food to be that way too. So I understand why Americans are acceptingly obese but that still shouldn’t be an excuse to consume the things we do at the rate that we do it. My eating habits are thanks to a not so lenient parental diet. I was taught that eating junk food excessively can lead to great health risks in the future.
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In conclusion, I believe the world still has a chance to survive and prosper as it once did when we didnt take the earth for granted. If we can stop or maybe slow down pollution, global warming, deforestation, overpopulation, overconsumption and everything else that is weakening the earth, maybe just maybe we will survive. Our biggest concern now is slowing down consumption. We are only “five percent of the population yet we have consumed thirty percent of the world’s resources.”(Leonard). There are many outside forces that play a role in your life and shaping your thoughts that also impact the way you live. Now imagine all those forces being good, being rid of toxic things. That is what it would feel like to live at peace with all the plants and animals and most importantly our planet. Now I’m not telling you to become a treehugger, plant lover, vegan. All I want you to realize is the importance of keeping our planet and yourself healthy. Your eating habits play a huge role in your mental as well as physical health. Remember you are what you eat. Whether you take that as a compliment or not says a lot about what you eat. Now lets save the planet one changed mind at a time.
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Without biomedical research, diseases could not have been prevented through vaccines. In seasons when the vaccine viruses matched circulating strains, flu vaccine has been shown to reduce the risk of having to go to the doctor with flu by 40% to 60%. Vaccines and treatments have eradicated viral diseases such as smallpox, polio, rabies, and tuberculosis due to animal research. This benefits humans not only because of the treatments for viral diseases, but it can create insulin for controlling diabetes and provide organ transplants.
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Zoo Miami gave Barney, a 25-year-old silverback gorilla, his annual checkup. Barney’s persistent cough concerned the zookeepers, which resulted in the discovery of mites in his airways after examination. An associate veterinarian quote “We were not expecting to see that at all” and “You don’t see that in humans”. Allergy tests were also given to find out that Barney is allergic to mangoes, plantains, and some types of grasses, which explained hives breaking out. Without this animal procedure, Barney would’ve suffered in silence and research on newfound infestation of mites. Due to biomedical physiology, an excellent understanding of how the human body functions and creation of functioning artificial organs have been possible.
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With avian flu, malaria, AIDS, and other new and reemerging diseases, an important goal of NIH is the development of vaccines. If just four recently developed vaccines (hepatitis B, rotavirus, Haemophilus influenzae type b, and acellular pertussis) were universally administered, more than three million deaths could be prevented each year. Biomedical research can prevent millions of deaths yearly, which is a supporting factor to continue its testing.
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Using procedures such as Harvard’s animal care use programs to ensure all legal safety is another way of social and legal acceptability for biomedical research. The Principles of Humane Experimental Technique advocate the legal standpoint of assuring all tested and order vertebrate animals are approved from Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees. Two IACUC’s of Harvard’s program are federally mandated by our OLAW Assurances; this means that also the IACUC’s are responsible for inspection of all animal use sites at least once every six months, including all animal facilities, satellite housing, and animal use areas in labs.
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Cows have cry for us, they put down their knees, begging to survive, but humans, they killed the cows without any tears and fears. Can you imagine that’s how cold blooded being a human. Animals have more emotion than humans, they will not leave you when you are sick, but how human do is abandon them, animals did not do anything wrong, how can humans do this, animals have longer history than humans. They lived without risk before, but now, everywhere has risk.
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The Food and Drug Administration reports that 92 out of every 100 drugs that pass animal tests fail in humans. Now some scientists have developed humane, modern, and effective non-animal research methods that are cheaper, faster, and more accurate than animal tests. The world doesn’t need another makeup, hand soap, food ingredient, that it should come of animals’ lives. Whether it came from an animal in a fur farm or which was caught in the wild, every fur, trinket will caused an animal suffering and took away their life. Animals on fur farms spend their entire lives confined to narrow, extremely dirty iron cages. Fur farmers use the cheapest and cruelest killing methods, including suffocation, electrocution, gas, and poison.
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Almost half of the fur comes from China, where millions animals are killed, and often skinned alive for their fur. Chinese fur is often mislabeled, so if you wear any fur, there’s no way of knowing for sure what skin you are wearing. There is no need to be cruel of staying warm and look cool. Cruelty-free fabrics and faux furs are available in stores everywhere. Animals need their fur coats more than we do. But on fur factory farms around the world, billions of animals spend their lives in dirty cages, only to be killed by immoral methods, just because the name of fashion. Millions of pets and non-target wildlife, even the endangered animals which could die in fur traps. However, there are many designers who refuse to work with animal fur, and some famous brands also refused to animals testing.
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Many countries refused to import ivories, rhinoceros horns, government should protect them more early. Many elephants and rhinos died because of their intrinsic features. Human don’t need those things , it’s useless for us, the horns and ivories are belonging to the animals, but human want to earn more money, so they killed the innocent animals without any mercy. Although the animals are almost being extinct, people still doing stupid, unreasonable things to hurt the lives of earth. Another example, is the shark fins, no matter how delicious it is, people can not killed them just because of the fins, the most irritated thing is the dumbest people after taking off the fins then threw back the sharks in the sea and let it died painfully and slowly. How can people doing that?
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God gives the rights to us , is to protect the animals and the environment, not killing them just for fun or earn money, money is not the most important things, Do human want to regret after all animals have been extinct? Some people will never regret because they are the most selfish species in the earth. Please do not visit the circus which have animals performances, people would be cruel to train the animals. Also the zoos which use cages to lock the animals for showing them to human, animals need freedom, not cages. But except the National park and the zoos which help the abandon animals and the illness animals.
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Animal testing is a topic that has been taking seriously from a few years ago. People from all over the world have been able to know about what happens in the laboratories, but that is not enough. Our world should be well informed about what animal testing really is. What happens after experiments? What happens when a product is tested on a living creature? How Scientifics certify that all of the products are safe to use? Why people allow the harm and death of innocent animals? All of those questions will be answered.
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Animal testing is conformed by a bunch of experiments performed on living animals without their consent. Since those experiments are performed without the animal’s consent, they are not aware that those can cause them pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm (Cruelty Free International ‘What is animal testing?’). At the end of each experiment, many of the animals can be re-used for another experiment or the same people performing the experiments have the right to kill the animals at the end of the procedure.
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The experiments made on animals can involve ‘skin and eye irritation tests where chemicals are rubbed into the shaved skin or dripped into the eyes of restrained rabbits without any pain relief’ (Humane Society ‘Fact Sheet: Cosmetic Testing’). The animal involved in this type of test would be from one to two rabbits. The experiment involves a substance that is applied into the rabbit’s eyes, which of course shows if they bleed, have redness, ulcers or blindness (The Humane Society ‘Fact Sheet: Cosmetic Testing’). Repeated force-feeding studies lasting weeks or months to look for signs of general illness or specific health hazards such as cancer or birth defects, this experiment consist in different procedures. One of the procedures is called ‘Developmental toxicity’ used for birth defects. The test consist in using four hundred eighty rabbits (one hundred adult females and four hundred eighty pups) or one thousand and three hundred rats (one hundred adult females and one thousand and two hundred pups), the procedure consist in using a pregnant female which is exposed, usually by force-feeding, starting at the initiation of pregnancy (through implantation) and continuing throughout the pregnancy. They are then killed on the day before they are expected to give birth (on average, twenty two days for rats or thirty one days for rabbits). Their pups are extracted and evaluated for signs of developmental abnormalities (Humane Society ‘Fact Sheet: Cosmetic Testing’). Another type of test used on animals is widely condemned it to ‘lethal dose’ tests, in which animals are forced to swallow large amounts of a test chemical to determine the dose that causes the death. This type of test is called Acute Oral Toxicity and the procedure involves seven rats. It consists in ‘forcing the test substance down a rat’s throat using a feeding tube. They may experience diarrhea, convulsions, bleeding from the mouth, seizures, paralysis, and/or death’ (Humane Society ‘Cosmetics Test That Use Animals’).
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The crowd always freaks out when they realize that one of their favorite brands performs that type of torment to innocent living animals. It’s very shocking to discover that most of the cosmetic companies still use animals testing for their own benefit. Companies do not take responsibility about the suffering and distress they perform on animals, all they want is money and success. Brands like L’Oreal, Esteé Lauder, Mac, Benefit, Lancome, Clinique, Chanel, Giorgio Armani, YSL, Dior, La Mer, Maybelline and many more still use animal testing (Cruelty-Free Kitty ’30 Makeup Brands That Still Test On Animals In 2018′). Since animal testing is still legal and several companies do not value what happens with the animal or how much it suffers, they’re still experimenting. Despite the hate and importance that a huge amount of individuals have shown to companies that perform animal testing, companies still perform it. It’s devastating how companies prefer the easy and harmful way; animal testing is just an easier and cheaper way for companies to create their products. Scientists can be one hundred percent sure that the products that they’re generating will make no harm or chemical reactions to the costumer without using animals. ‘There are already many products on the market that are made by using thousands of ingredients that have a long history of safe use. Companies can ensure safety by choosing to create products using those ingredients. Companies also have the option of using existing non-animal tests or investing in and developing alternative non-animal tests for new ingredients. There are nearly fifty non-animal tests that have been validated for use, with many more in development. These modern alternatives can offer results that are not only more relevant to people, but more efficient and cost-effective. Advanced non-animal tests represent the very latest techniques that science has to offer, replacing outdated animal tests that were developed decades ago’ (Humane Society ‘Fact Sheet: Cosmetic Testing).
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There are different ways to stop animal testing but it also comes with the law. Each country is involved in this type of experiments because it involves using living animals and involves a product to sell in the future to the society. Since the country regulates what can be sold or not and is responsible about their citizens and animals, the law needs to be involved if anything serious happens so they can proceed. Also, a remarkable point in this part of the essay is that in the United States isn’t mandatory to use animal testing to prove that a product is safe. A significant detail about cosmetic testing on animals is that pain relief is not provided. Not providing a living creature medication for their relief is absurd and atrocious. Nobody deserves to be abused in that way, less after having to go through such a painful process. ‘USA has a large percentage of the animals used in such testing (such as laboratory-bred rats and mice) are not counted in official statistics and receive no protection under the Animal Welfare Act’ (Humane Society ‘Fact Sheet: Cosmetic Testing’).
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Unlike the United States, the Chinese government conducts mandatory animal tests on all cosmetic products imported into their country. ‘The government may also conduct animal tests on items pulled from store shelves. Therefore, even if a cosmetics company does not test their products or ingredients on animals, if they sell their products in China they cannot be considered cruelty-free. India, Israel, Norway, and Switzerland have passed similar laws. Cosmetic companies in the United States and abroad that conduct animal tests will not be able to sell those products in any of these countries unless they change their practices. Guatemala, New Zealand, South Korea, Taiwan, Turkey, and several states in Brazil have also passed laws to ban or limit cosmetic animal testing’ (Humane Society ‘Fact Sheet: Cosmetic Testing’).
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Since animal testing is something far from illegal in our world we can still help. A highly amount of companies have agreed into protecting animals and banning animal testing. It’s relieving to read different names from brands that care about animals and their protection. Brands such as Becca Cosmetics, Colourpop, Glossier, Jeffree Star, Kat Von D, Kiko, LUSH, Marc Jacobs Beauty, Milk, Morphe, NYX, Tarte, TATCHA, Too Faced, and Urban Decay (Cruelty-Free Kitty ‘List of Officially Cruelty-Free Brands – 2018’) understand the suffering and the deaths this causes only for beauty purposes. There’s other companies that were founded with the purpose of protecting animals and defending them from any harm like: The Humane Society of The United States, PETA, European Coalition to End Animal Experiments, Coalition for Consumer Information on Cosmetics, Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (One Green Planet) that are not only committed to protect animals, they also gives you the facility to donate money for all of those animals suffering in laboratories that don’t have medication or relief for their suffering. Cosmetics buyers and the rest of the population shouldn’t be self-centered and should start caring about what happens behind every make-up and beauty process. Each member of this world should be considerate and care about what happens to a living animal, they shouldn’t support ‘beautiful’ and acceptable if the product is behind those abhorrent experiments. There’s nothing wrong in using make-up and other beauty products, each human being has the right to look beautiful the way they want, even if it includes make-up. Hopefully, there are different vegan and cruelty free options that were already mentioned that are as good as the other products tested on animals. Let’s look for a safer way for our world and preserve it.
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For ages, animals have been utilized for research purposes. There are a bunch of instances where testing animals have proven to be beneficial for the human race. Be that as it may, is it right? Is it humane? Furthermore, what gives people the right to harm these animals for their own benefit? All things considered, there are numerous perspectives concerning the subject. Some may state that animal testing has its favorable circumstances, as it helps the general public. In any case, what are the advantages of utilizing creatures as test subjects? Right off the bat, diverse research establishments state that with the assistance of such investigations, there is still the possibility to live a long life on Earth.
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The testing of beauty care products is additionally held upon creatures the segments of corrective devices can cause bothering, aggravation, and different complications. Besides, a few synthetic substances that are harmful or hurtful to creatures demonstrate profitable when utilized by people. Ibuprofen, for instance, is hazardous for some creature species but has been proven useful for humans. Intravenous vitamin C has demonstrated to be successful in treating sepsis in people yet has no effect on mice.
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We live in a cutting-edge world, where technology and different methods are the primary piece of our day by day life. Thus, the beautifying agents can be effectively tried on computer systems. It is conceivable currently to see every one of the impacts of an item on the screen. Then again, after testing on animals, women can make sure that the restorative merits purchasing, as it is okay for her skin and well-being. Some of you would ask: why creatures are picked for acknowledging logical research? The response of creatures on various wonders can vary from that of a human one. All things considered, it isn’t in every case genuine. The DNA of chimpanzees is 99% like our own. Would you believe mice are 98% compatible with human DNA? It is stunning, would you say it isn’t? Warm-blooded animals have similar organs that every one of us has, such as lungs, heart, kidneys, and so forth. Because of this likeness, researchers can investigate and get familiar with the arrangement of organs, test various cures and discover the one which can be utilized for restoring individual well-being.
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Because of this, we all ought to be appreciative for not utilizing our own organs or humans as a whole as experimental test subjects. Be that as it may, a considerable amount of you should realize that there is in vitro testing. What are its quirks? All things considered, altogether not to utilize creatures in investigate a few researchers incline toward utilizing human cells. From one point of view, this testing permits making increasingly right decisions about a disease. There is likewise a supposition that these creatures’ testing additionally spares the lives of creatures. At the point when the researcher takes a shot at finding new immunizations, they, above all else, give it a shot in such a way, the creature is inoculated and is imperiled from experiencing ailments. The other issue which the tests help with is termination. The dark footed ferret, tamarins in Brazil, and condor from California are as yet alive thanks to still being experimented on.
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The logical focus makes me believe beyond any doubt that safe strategies for research are utilized. Be that as it may, in some cases, these methods don’t work. The antibody might be arranged inaccurately, or it just may not work for whatever reason. Or possibly, a few medications that may have beneficial outcomes on the human body, can impact creatures in a destructive manner. if this is the case, what is to be done at this point? What to do if the antibody caused death? There is no chance to get back, tragically. In any case, the most upsetting thing is that not all creatures which are utilized for explores are ensured by the animal welfare act. Be that as it may, even those creatures, whose life is ensured, can get severely harmed. None of us can envision the torment amid these experiments. vision the torment amid these experiments.
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Since people can’t initiate crude pharmaceutical examinations as test examples, utilizing guinea pigs is noteworthy in this unique circumstance. It is advisable to execute logical examinations somewhere else before introducing them to individuals. It is urgent to concur that testing may be a deceptive wonder as contended by certain gatherings in any case, it should keep following its benefits and commitments to mankind in the domains of medication examinations and logical disclosures.
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For centuries, humans have exploited animals, causing them suffering indicating that the welfare of animals still requires more protection through the implementation of legislation to tackle mistreatment of all animals. In our modern society, a major social ethical concern that has arisen significantly are treatments such as cosmetics, drugs, and curing fatal illnesses. All for the advancement of our knowledge and animals such as rats and mice are viewed as ‘expendable’. The use of animals in research is a controversial topic that will be critically analyzed further in this essay.
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Despite the fact that the EU has a range of animal welfare laws the UK are predominantly improving their treatment towards animals which can be supported by World Animal Protection, an ‘international non-profit animal welfare organization, shows that the UK has some of the highest animal welfare standards in the world.’ New regulations are being implemented to strengthen animal welfare, primarily around puppy sales. This is known as ‘the Animal Welfare (Licensing of Activities Involving Animals) (England) Regulations 2018’. Furthermore, making CCTV cameras mandatory in all slaughterhouses and planning a rise in prison sentences for offenders who do not abide by the new regulations that were introduced.
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An example of a regulation implemented are licensed pet breeders are prohibited from dealing in puppies and kittens under the age of 8 weeks. Organizations such as the RSPCA are strongly opposed to animals being mistreated with their purpose to promote animals to being treated humanely and prevent the cruelty directed to them. Hence the RSPCA is fervent in the governments to criminalize third-party sales of animals that are currently being established. In contrast, evidence demonstrates the on-going illegal trafficking of puppies traveling a great distance into the UK without the puppies following the regulations when dealing with pets. Puppies being transported without the required vaccinations may have negative implications and exposure to health complications for both animal welfare and to human health. Puppies are trafficked through the Pet Travel Scheme which permits animals to enter another country more effectively. It is evidently proven countries such as hungry are falsifying information on pet passports to transport underage puppies into the UK. This issue has escalated in recent years and is no longer small scale. A welfare organization finds ‘the breaches to the Welfare of Animals [Transport] England] Order 2006 abhorrent.’
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To guarantee the safety of animals the Animal Welfare Act 2006 was introduced by DEFRA and in contrast to other legislation, the Act applies to all animals. The act was formed on the protection of Animals Act 1911 where owners must follow the regulations put in place to prevent unnecessary physical, mental or psychological harm on animals. The welfare of an animal must be a primary focus when used for research, wildlife trade, and entertainment purposes. In recent years there have been controversial issues in how animals are ethically treated.
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The Grand National race has become a controversial issue recently, being one of the most hazardous events has sparked outrage when during the race a horse was killed after it collapsed on the first fence. Incidents like these occur regularly causing animals to be treated as expendable. While Animal-rights organization, PETA states, ‘it’s the race of greedy, callous people whose ethics don’t comport with our contemporary understanding of horses’ sensitivity and intelligence.’ Entertainment animals once reach their peak in their career are routinely killed. The Animal Welfare Act requires all animal’s basic needs to be met such as a suitable environment for them to accommodate and ensuring all animals display normal behavior patterns. Otherwise, an individual who was to disregard the legislation can be prosecuted to a maximum of 3 years in imprisonment and a potential fine of up to £20,000.
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In 2019, a significant act was introduced by Sir Oliver Heald MP which received royal assent on 8th April, having achieved all of its parliamentary stages and the house of Lords. The current Welfare Act 2006 specifically section 4 will be amended to eradicate a section of the current law of self-defense. A bill was implemented due to the heroic incident in honor of retired police dog Finn who put himself in a fatal position where he was brutally stabbed in Stevenage in 2016.
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Finn had sustained life-threatening injuries which caused him to undergo a 5-hour surgery where he had a low percentage chance of survival rate. Despite his predicament, he survived and recovered to go back on duty 11 weeks later. His handler PC Dave Wardell has campaigned to reamend the law to increase the punishment for individuals who service animals. Dave commented “Finn’s Law will provide protection for police dogs and police horses which I am really pleased about. It is a major step forward.” This will ensure unnecessary harm is inflicted on service animals considering before the act was legalized animals were treated as property by the law. As a result, when a service animal was injured or killed this was characterized as damage of property in contrast to them being living creatures.
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Animals are complex organisms with their genetic makeup, as a result of natural selection which Darwin whose contributions to science became the foundation to the discovery of evolution. Where animals are adapted to the ecological niche, they may have formerly lived in. It is fundamental that animals’ physiological homeostasis is being attained otherwise animals are suffering unjustly. Zoos and circuses are unable to imitate what their natural habitats provide for them. An article by PETA (People for Ethical Treatment of Animals) has reported animals ‘in captivity exhibit self-destructive, repetitive behavior because of the inherent stress—symptoms of a condition known as “zoochosis.”’
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Zoos assert their proclamation to the protection of species from endangerment to extinction. Hiding behind the pretext of conservations. However, a study published in the Journal PLOS ONE has constituted only 18 percent of animals are essentially endangered. This illustrates animals are kept in solitary confinement and unstimulating environments causing them distress, pain, and occasionally isolation with the placement of animals depriving them of social interaction with other animals. This may severely impact existing programs with their primary resolution to protect wildlife. Zoo conservations are depriving and diverting support and resources for programs with the zoo’s ideology of supposedly caring for the welfare of animals.
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Zoo licensing act 1981 under the welfare act 2006 lawfully requires zoos to accommodate animals under conditions with the objective to ensure all animal’s welfare is met to a high standard. This includes ‘providing each animal with an environment well adapted to meet the physical, psychological and social needs of the species to which it belongs.’ On the other side of the argument, Carl Cohen, one of the most distinguished philosophical advocates find it needless for animals to have any moral claims as they are unable to comprehend ethical principles and direct one action’s appropriate.
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Individuals would seemingly argue animals confided in circuses are treated significantly worse due to the additional attribute of harsh treatment animals are inflicted in training. The cruelty of circuses is, however reforming to provide improvements to the welfare of animals, explicitly wild animals. Environment Secretary Michael Gove has publicized a new bill on the 1st May 2019 to ban the usage of wild animals in traveling circuses. In today’s modern society wild animals have no place for traveling circuses. The bill will mandate no circus operators in the UK to allow animals such as zebra’s camels, tigers to be a part of their environment. Circuses are not able to accommodate the complex needs of wild animals with the poor conditions a circus may offer for them.
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Circuses are a loud, disruptive and demanding environment that cannot benefit animals who are not adapted to such a place. These animals will not be able to exhibit their normal behavior as cubs they would have been forced into submission until they were obedient to obey the orders of performing acts. Performing singularly is torture for animals with being forced to contort their bodies into positions that can cause serious damage and tear to ligaments and performing threatening acts such as jumping through the fire can risk the potential of burning fur. Studies have accumulated ‘that pain and fear are the only elements that drive wild animals to perform in circuses, with the noise and lights pounding on their senses.’
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Elephants have been severely targeted in modern society with declining numbers by almost a third in the last decade and approximately 20,000 a year are continuously being slaughtered due to the international demand for ivory. Consequently, the UK has introduced the ban on ivory sales which was confirmed by Environment Secretary Michael Gove. Ivory is substantially projected as an image of wealth, status and can be exploited for financial gain. The UK is currently providing information against the illegal ivory trade to which an international fight is cemented. EU states to follow into the steps of the UK to ban commercial trade in raw ivory.
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It is a global priority that animals especially endangered ones are lawfully protected from illegal trafficking whether for the purpose of medicine, resource of food, entertainment, or other uses humans see fit. The illegal wildlife trade is stated to be the fourth largest illegal trade, consequently, severely affects some animals to near extinction. ‘Since its inception, CITES has aimed to conserve more than 35,000 species of animals and plants.’ CITES also known as the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora is a multilateral treaty between governments and aims to ensure the protection of endangered species are not under threat. This addresses the issue on a global scale to engage with the biggest markets of illegal wildlife trade.
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PAW or what is known as the Partnership for Action Against Wildlife is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to the reduction of wildlife crime. Their aim is to effectively control and tackle the constant crimes that are committed unlawfully such as, poaching, illegal trade, bat persecution, and animal cruelty in general. Furthermore, their objective is to raise awareness of wildlife legislations that are implemented to prevent offending acts from occurring. Legislation acts such as The Wild Mammals Act 1996. Any offender convicted under this act with the intent to inflict unnecessary harm such as mutilate, skin, or otherwise beat an animal may be liable to a term of a maximum of six months of imprisonment.
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If humans have the right to not be used for research and testing why are animals acceptable to this practice. Research centers may cause distress to animals and treat them in an inhumane way. Animals being confined in small cages with no freedom of movement and being forced to live out of their natural habitat. In addition, animal testing can be severely harmful to animals such as mice and rats where they inhale toxic fumes or even dripping harmful chemicals into rabbits’ eyes. Despite the harm, an animal may have to endure this does not confirm products are safe to use in humans. Animals are complex organisms that function differently from humans. Statistics show that 90% of drugs have failed in human trials despite them succeeding in the animal trial.
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For this reason, animal research is highly regulated, with laws implemented to prevent mistreatment. Researchers must follow strict guidelines placed by the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986. The amended legislation was introduced in 2013. The home office is in charge of enforcing the law related to animal use and must ensure all animals are treated to a high standard and are suffering the minimum amount of pain and discomfort. The home office states, ‘Our regulations ensure that animals are used in scientific procedures only when there’s no validated alternative and when the potential benefits outweigh the harms.’ Several countries are against futile experimentations in contrast to there being various non-testing methods that can be used instead of that bans such as the cosmetic-testing bans were implemented in the European Union, India, New Zealand, and elsewhere.
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Statistics illustrate a large proportion of animal testing in the EU to experience ‘moderate’ or ‘severe’ suffering to animals. The EU now has recognized that ‘animals are sentient beings’ and be treated in the same way as humans are. Obviously, the degree of suffering may not be equivalent to each other as some animals may be able to endure pain far less than people. That does not ignore the ethical issues of maltreatment on a living creature. ‘In the UK in 2016, 35% of animal experiments involved moderate or severe suffering.’
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To conclude, animals should have the same rights as humans in terms of how they’re treated since we’re both sentient beings. Due to the inability of animals to claim all ethical rights, legislations are implemented with the help of animal welfare organizations since they are unable to advocate for themselves. However, these developments are mostly seen in western cultures due to modern views and science proving that animals are intellectual species but in underdeveloped countries, this is not the case as their survival depends on them due to lack of food.
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Animal testing is unethical for many reasons one of being that they have to endure this suffering for human convenience. Most of the time what these animals are used as test subjects for medical advancements, cosmetics tastings, and for another product testing. But, for the most part, some of the experiments that they were being used for don’t even make it on the shelves at stores because it didn’t work as they hoped or they just terminated the experiment altogether.
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However, what happens to all the animals that were used for the testing of the medication or product, well they either get put down or are used in other animal experiments but if it was a wild animal that they captured for the experiments than they some time releases it back into the wild, where they may live for a few days if they are able to survive on their own after being in captivity for a long period of time and if they don’t have some sort of abnormality caused by the testing.
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With the technology that we have today, we could find or create an alternative way to test certain medications and products without having to involve animals as test subjects that would work just as well or even better. For example, a company in Michigan called CeeTox created an animal-friendly way to analyze how the medication or product would work for humans, which is called vitro toxicity screening. By using this method to test medications and products it would give scientists better and more accurate results than by using animals, since most of the experiments that were done on animals mostly all failed.” Currently, nine out of ten experimental drugs fail in clinical studies because we cannot accurately predict how they will behave in people, based on laboratory and animal studies “said Michael O. Leavitt who is a part of the U.S. Department of health and human services. vitro toxicity screening will also end most of the world’s animal testing.
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These animals are also kept in captivity, are isolated from other animals, and are being missed treated in these testing. Most of the medication or products that they are being used for end up leaving them with some type of reaction or sign effects such as: being burned, blinded, poisoned, getting some type of abnormality etc. Why should these animals have to go through such painful experiments and procedures, without even getting some sort of anesthetic to help them with the pain just to help advance science?
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Some people think that by using animals such as mice, rabbits, hamsters, and monkeys that it will give us better and accurate results and data since they are the next closes living thing to humans, but the truth is we are not the same. A medical trial that was done to help stop morning sickness for pregnant women caused over 10,000 birth defects, one of them is a disease called Phocomelia, which didn’t allow the limbs of the baby to develop correctly. This pill was tested on animals and worked for them but didn’t work for humans and causes over thousands of fetal deaths and many birth defects worldwide. This proves that what may work for animals might not work for humans.
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Another pressing issue in the topic of animal rights is the controversy of testing on animals. Throughout history, animals have often been used to test medical research and theories. In early Greek culture, physicians and scientists, such as Aristotle, and Erasistratus, performed experiments on living animals (Hajar, 2011). There have been debates on the topic of animal testing since the seventeenth century and more recently, the practice of using animals in testing and research, has come under severe criticism from animal rights advocates who believe this practice is cruel and inhumane.
Topic: animal-testing

People who are against testing on animals believe the benefit to companies and the public does not justify the cruelty and harm done to the animals while those who support animal testing argue that testing on animals is necessary in order to make advancements in the medical and research world. Claude Bernard who is known as the father of physiology, states that experiments on animals are entirely conclusive for the toxicology and hygiene of man, (Hajar, 2011) Bernard concluded that the effects of these experiments have the same effects on humans as they do on the animals used for testing, which not always results in positive side effects.