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The Animal Experimentation Controversy

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?By animal experimentation, also referred to as animal research or animal testing, human’s quality of life has been improved significantly. Animal research, which has been the center of controversial topic all over the world, conducted for the guarantees of the safety of daily commodities such as man’s medicines, cosmetics, shampoos, and toothpastes. According to Ian Murnaghan, animal experimentation is thought necessary for human’s health or well-beings, meaning that many members of public or scientific communities agree with using animals for testing. The reason is that a lot of medical treatments vaccines insulin HIV drugs and more were made by animal experimentation. However, showing photographs or videos of animal experiments would make publics shocked. About 200 to 225 million laboratory animals are used for the experimentation and killed by scientists under the name of research every year in the United States. “People have power over animals, so they use animals to help their own species” (Catheter and Mouse; Animal Welfare). Animal experimentation brings many disadvantages such as ineffective result, cruel act, and immense expense to both human and animals; therefore, animal experimentation should be abolished. One of the most important disadvantages of animal experimentation is that it does not give human informative results. This is because there are very obvious biological differences between human and animals. For example, when conducting animal experiments, scientists usually use rats or mice on which 85 percent of experiments are conducted, yet human are very different from rats or mice. In contrast, scientists argue that they have better models chimpanzees than rats or mice. However, according to Dr. Andre Menache, who is a veterinary surgeon, human share about 98.4 percent of DNA with chimpanzees. 1.6 percent of difference seems to be a tiny difference, but that tiny difference between human and chimpanzees tu

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