Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Animal Testing

By definition, animal testing, also known as animal experimentation, animal research, and in vivo testing, is the use of non-human animals in experiments. Worldwide it is estimated that the number of vertebrate animals—from zebrafish to non-human primates—ranges from the tens of millions to more than 100 million used annually.  I believe that animal testing is a good thing.  However, I do not believe it is always a humane act.  The reasons I think that animal testing could be a good thing is for medical procedures that will eventually be used on humans.  Also, I think that testing new products on animals rather than humans is definitely okay.  However, when people take it so far as to torturing animals in order to achieve a futile goal, I do not believe in this process at all.  I believe that animal testing should strictly be used for the betterment of understanding in the medical field in order to help humans... and that's it!


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