How does animal testing effect vegtarians?
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Many people both Vegetarians and Non-Vegetarians avoid products that have been tested on animals.Animal rights groups try to expose such companies.Such as People for Ethical treatment of animals.Animal testing is extremely cruel and uneccessary.
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The advantages are many. Here are a few:  Unless you eat organic meat, you are consuming hormones and antibiotics--which is one reason antibiotics are becoming much less effective in disease control. Vegetarians are much less likely to have high cholesterol which contributes greatly to heart disease. Vegetarians have fewer problems with constipation and have a lower incidence of colon cancer, possibly in part because meat takes much, much longer to digest and remains in the colon for quite a while. Vegetarians do not have to worry about the effects of mad cow disease, or getting e-coli from undercooked chicken or countertops improperly washed after handling chicken. Of course, vegetarians can also take satisfaction in the fact that their life is not being sustained by the death of another creature. Also, I believe the parasite you refer to comes from undercooked pork. As for general physical condition, vegetarians have to work out and get exercise, just like everyone else. Hope this helps.
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I think they offer the perfect solution to one of society's more pressing moral problems.\n\nHuntingdon Life Sciences and its associated companies are constantly under attack for their use of animals in scientific research. Obviously, the experiments conducted on the animals, while essential to medical and scientific research, are often painful and result in the death of the animal. Another problem is that, while guinea pigs, chimpanzees or dogs share certain physical and biochemical similarities with humans, they aren't exactly the same.\n\nStreet beggars fill the gap admirably. Physically and biochemically they are identical to human beings, without actually being human. There are plenty of them and there is absolutely no reason to care about what happens to them. If we finish experimenting with one and dispose of it afterwards, we can just go and get another one. There are plenty to go around.\n\nThough it's of no concern, this also gives their life some purpose, in that they will save a chimpanzee or a rat from having to suffer. This is certainly of far, far greater value to society than their current role.
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No! \n\nFarm personnel, including owners, managers, and farm workers should be educated on the risk of adverse and fatal human effects associated with the use of common equine veterinary drugs such as Xylazine and Acepromazine\n\nhttp://www.cdc.gov/Niosh/face/stateface/ky/03ky134.html
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http://www.bact.wisc.edu/Bact370/effectsofmut.html\n http://www.bact.wisc.edu/Bact370/effectsofmut.htm\n http://www.biology.ewu.edu/aHerr/Genetics/Bio310/Pages/ch13pges/ch13note.html
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I believe that testing on animals for medical reasons is an unfortunate necessity. We all want advances in science to cure terrible diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Cancer, HIV etc, and without the use of animals for this purpose we will never be able to achieve this.\nAnimal testing will continue until a new model could be found. The use of Cell and Tissue culture is used for drug testing, but medicinal drugs are not allowed on the market until animal testing has been completed. This is then backed up with human testing once the drug is deemed safe. This does fail, and people can get hurt (eg thalidomide) but without the animal testing these cases would occur more frequently. \nAlso laboratories for testing on animals have to work to highly stringent guidelines, and are frequently checked by officials that the animals are not being mistreated. In the UK at least.
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It all depends on how much different you expect the results to be between the experimental group and the control group. I am on simvastatin and have gone periods drinking more green tea. Have not watched my HDL levels closely enough to compared effects. \n\nI use statcalc in EpiInfo to run sample size calculations and find that is easy and accurate. I think that would work for your experiment and your question.
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the advantage of Ame's test is to stop cruelty and save the lives of the animals.
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There have been tests that suggest it MIGHT cause problems in rats...but the amount they consume is huge, we probably wouldnt eat the comparable amount (weight for weight) in a life time!  So you're OK :D
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I've been reading up on this new research as well. I'm really excited about it and am curious to see how well it works in human trials. Unfortunately, it wouldn't be the first time something looks promising in lab animals but fails miserably in human trials.
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Pros of Animal Testing\n- makes sure product is safe before selling it to people\n- avoids having to test on people\n- allows scientists to research new medicines, vaccines against \n   disease etc.\n- by looking at animals, can understand people better\n\nCons of Animal Testing\n- animals are mistreated in the labs\n- conditions they live in before being used for testing are also bad\n- many of the experiments are cruel and can be painful\n- curiosity doesn't give people the right to abuse other living \n   creatures\n- doesn't even advance science all that much
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GGT has to do with protein synthesis. In terms of steroid use, they increase synthesis. Just a side effect.
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I've already shared with you my views on this matter. Would you be surprised if I told you they haven't changed since this morning? Eating commercially raised cattle, pigs, etc is bad for them and worse for us. They have their final revenge when we die of atherosclerotic heart disease. Oh well, what goes around comes around as they say.
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i AM ALL FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS, BUT I EAT MEAT.  Personally I feel that how the meat was produced (ie how the animal lived its life) is a bigger issue.  Factory farming in my view is unnatural and cruel. Chickens and pigs seem to be the worst affected (beef in the U.S ), the are intensively reared in cramped conditions. For this reason I only eat meat from known sources, which is free range .  I avoid eggs from battery hens because they are kept in a cage for their entire lives , and the eggs don't compare to good freerange egggs the difference is unbeleivable. Luckily beef is not intenseviley farmed in my area and very good quality.  Look up groups like 'compassion in world farming for more' info
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Lots of good answers so far. I'm Vegan, and I've lost heaps of fat from my starting weight. I started out just deciding to go veg, and once I did, i found i had heaps more energy, which helped me build will power to do more exercise, and it spiralled up. before veg, I'd been spiralling down into the gutter for years, and although recently I've come to an impasse regarding my weight loss (my weight has stablised, but i'm still a little overweight), before I started I was obese, depressed and lethargic. Now I'm more alive than ever.\nGoing Veg*n is not just about human health. The 4 other most common reasons for people becoming veg*n are the environment, human rights, animal rights and animal welfare, but I won't go there. Check my sources if you want more info.\nAlmost every reputable medical or scientific study ever conducted has said that to improve health, one should increase vegetable intake, and reduce animal intake. In other words, go veg*n, and go veg*n. losing weight and fat are not be the only positive reasons for going veg*n either. You can reduce your risk of contracting almost every disease, illness, ailment or condition known to man, as the single most common cause of all physically unhealthy situations are dietic related. What you put in you get out.\nask any spokesperson of the animal consumption industry to provide hard evidence that their products are good for health, and compare their response with that of the corresponding spokesperson for the vegetable matter with similar nutritional value. I DARE YOU! there is a safer, healthier, enviro-friendlier, more compassionate, usually more efficient, and usually cheaper veg*n alternative to every animal product that exists today, from prawns to steak, from leather to wool.\nWhen you decide to go veg*n, speak to people who have been veg*n for some time, particularly those who still appear healthy. Some veg*ns are deficient in vital vitamins and protiens, and this lacking is the primary reason new veg*ns revert after a short time. I appear healthy and normal, and I'm in my 6th year of being Vegan, which means no meat, egg, dairy, honey, animal clothing or tools, and I've just finished undergoing a round of pathology tests by doctors that prove all my bodily functions are better than normal in all cases, especially cholesterol and blood-sugar levels. \n\nDo you lose weiht when you become veg*n? YES!, I WENT FROM 115 KG TO 90 KG IN LESS THAN 3 YEARS, I'M NOW HOVERING AT 80 AND PLAN TO BE AT 75 BY CHRISTMAS. I STAND 175 CM TALL AND AM NOW 24.\nGO VEG ASAP!
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B is right (over A) because "raised" presumes less than  cultivated. Bred is used for animals, mostly.
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moratorium on geEnvironmentalists and food security activists in India have renewed calls for a moratorium on genetically modified (GM) foods and crops after rats reportedly secretly tested with GM corn diets by the U.S. agribusiness and biotech giant Monsanto developed blood and organ abnormalities. its taotally banon GM  food