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ANIMAL TESTING

BY: Avery Hardy and Kristen Fischer

Background

Approximately, 26 million animals are used to test and develop medical treatments, determine the toxicity of medications, check the safety of products designed for humans every year in the U.S.

Proponents: animal testing has helped the development of countless life saving treatments for both humans and animals and there are strict regulations prevent the mistreatment of animals in labs

Opponents: animal testing is cruel and inhumane to experiment on animals and there are other alternatives methods

Con

Pros

It's cruel and inhumane

there are alternatives to animal testing

animals anatomic, metabolic, and cellular different from humans

Some drugs that were tested on animals and passed aren't always safe

could mislead research into ignoring potential cures and treatments

95% of those animals aren't protected by AWA

animal testing has helped to many life saving cures and treatments

Animals benefit from the result of animal testing

they are good research subjects because they're similar to humans in many ways

Animals are treated humanely, both for the sake of the animal and the reliable test results

Allows researcher to study the subject over long periods of time and look at a whole body system

CONCLUSION

SIDE B

SIDE A

We side with the idea that there are other humane ways of conducting research than animal testing.

Also there were many pros listed that didn't seem like very valid arguments and more like opinions that they tried to pass off for facts.

https://connectusfund.org/16-integral-pros-and-cons-of-animal-experimentation

https://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-experimentation/animal-testing-101/

Regulations

For animal testing in the U.S. there are regulations by the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) that defines "animal" as "any live or dead dog, cat, monkey, guinea pig, hamster, rabbit, or other warm blooded animal" AWA excludes birds, rats and mice bred for research, cold-blooded animals, and farm animals

AWA also requires each research facility develop an Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) to "represent society's concerns regarding the welfare of animal subjects"

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