What are some pros of animal testing?
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While we hate to think of those cute little animals being exposed to various materials, the alternative in many cases is to test them on humans.  There are, however, alternatives to animal testing of some kinds of materials.  There are synthetic membranes which react the same as  human or animal tissue with respect to testing of the corrosivity of a material.  These synthetic membranes cannot simulate the reaction of human or animal tissue to certain medicines or other non-corrosive materials.  In those instances, animal testing is the only choice before human testing.  Better an animal should suffer the ill effects of a test material than a human.  If you disagree, would you volunteer to be a test subject for an unknown medicine if the ill effects could possibly be debilitating or fatal?  Or would you prefer that the Dr. prescribe a medicine that could not be tested because animal testing was outlawed?
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Don't worry. you can buy a physiology book. then buy a dead animal,  then anatomise it. just do it ,  success belong to you.  good luck!
380996
This answer involves you selling your body and drugs.... but legally.   There are many medical studies that require guinea pigs to test drugs for side effects before they are released to the public.  Sometimes this can pay pretty well and it doesn't take much time.
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I don't think we should test such paltry things as beauty products on animals.  I don't think we should use animals for research of any kind UNLESS we can show that it is a study that will possibly save or extend human life, and that no human beings are willing to participate in the testing.  Any animals used for this purpose should be put into a state of sleep or made insensitive to pain.  They should be rewarded with everything they like best.  They should be given names, and these names should be listed on the products for all people benefitting from these tests to read.
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The biggest animal rights group in the world right now is probably People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. You might want to check out their site and the sites of their critics. Try http://www.petakillsanimals.com for some startling facts about PETA. Also, any good book on animal rights/welfare in your school's library will address the criticisms of the animal rights movement.\n\nA handy tip: remember that animal right and animal welfare are not the same thing. When you think animal rights, think PETA. When you think animal welfare, think SPCA.\n\nGood luck with your term paper!
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We unarguably need to increase animal testing.  I think everyone can easily agree on this.
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Depends how much he was getting paid.\n\nSeriously though, i'd think it was a bit odd. But then again, better testing on people than animals?
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~Advantage:  you can't kill people.\nDisadvantage:  Animal rights groups hound you all the time.\nAdvantage:  testing on machines gives artificial results\nDisadvantage:  You've got to feed them, shelter them and keep them somewhat clean.\nAdvantage:  It's fun\nDisadvantage:  It would be more fun with people.\nAdvantage:  You don't have to pay them.\nDisadvantage:  You can't make them work for you to get the next fix or treatment.\nAdvantage:  When one succeeds, one can cure cancer in rats.\nDisadvantage:  Too many rats.\nAdvantage:  If (when) they die, you toss them in the oven or on the scrap heap.\nDisadvantage:  Using people, you could party at the wake.\nAdvantage:  With animals, you can breed new samples with the same genetic make-up.  Thanks to the Reconstruction Congress, you can't breed people anymore.\nDisadvantage:   Rats tend to breed like, well, ... rats.  Too many specimens can spoil the soup. \nAdvantage:  You can sell unused dogs, cats, rats and monkeys to Chinese restaurants.\nDisadvantage:  Oversupply of Chinese meats might run the horse steakhouses out of business.\nAdvantage:  One might discover miracle cures which could cure countless diseases and prolong life indefinitely.\nDisadvantage:  One might discover miracle cures which could cure countless diseases and prolong life indefinitely.
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In preclinical testing, the pharmaceutical company would be testing the compound for desired effect using an animal model.\n\nTake an antidepressant. They would have a potential chemical that they felt would be a good antidepressant. They would first tes it on rats to see if it had the predicted effect on the chemistry of the brain. Tis is step one of preclinical testing. To determine mechanism of action. Step 2 is dosage and toxicity. This is done to measure the effects on organ systems and look for side effects at high doses. \n\nOnce these are done, and the medication shows promise in animal models and has proven to be relatively safe in animal models then clinical testing may begin if the FDA approves it.\n\nIn clinical trials there are 3 phases:\n\nPhase I toxicity, i.e. checking if it hurts healthy people. Healthly volunteers take it or a placebo and report seide efects and they are closely monitored for problems.\n\nPhase II efficacy, i.e. if it does any good in patients with the condition. The target audience or population is given the medication or placebo to see if it truly works on them.\n\nPhase III long-term side-effects. In some medications this is shortened or skipped by the FDA. It should catch things liek the heart problems associated with celebrex, etc.
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Usually, new drugs are developed through methods involving a test tube and isolated proteins and/or DNA. Would you like to be the first to try a new drug? It can be very dangerous.\n\nIn order to try to maximize safety from side effects, we test these drugs on human and/or animal cells in culture, then with animal models to see if there are potentially serious side effects we don't expect. Phase III clinical trials finally test the drugs in limited doses on human subjects.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_rights\n\nhttp://www.ifaw.org/ifaw/general/default.aspx?splash&oid=3
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Moral values or professional values?  Ethically: honesty would be the most important by far- Modesty or at least the ability to admit when you are wrong ( so you dont cling to a hypothesis against the data), generosity-this leads to collaborations and sharing of data, which accelerates the process of discovery; kindness, so that you design the experiments with the wellfare of the animal in mind.\nAs far as the professional values go: Open-mindedness for examining data and coming up with correct conclusions; logical thinking..that;s obvious; intuition, for those many times that verbal and mathamatical thinking fail you; conservation, to design experiments that use the least amount of material, time, and animals (or whatever test material or subject is being employed); sexiness, by this I mean the excitement or current interest level of the public or scientific community, so that you can obtain grants for your research; delayed gratification, because often it takes years to answer the question; patience, both for the time it takes through trial and error, and the training of students in a very difficult and demanding career; judgement, so that you choose the *most* important question to be addressed, and apply the proper proportion of effort; discipline, because the work requires extreme care and attention to detail, you must be able to ignore some very interesting questions so that you can apply yourself to finishing others, and not get scattered into a thousand directions; a sense of proportion, so that you don't lose your life in your work and can maintain some sort of balance; a sense of humor, because most experiments fail, most students make incredibly obvious mistakes, at least part of the time you are going to be rejected for grants or manuscripts because a reviewer didn't understand the point, etc.  Thats probably enough of a list
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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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Australian philosopher Peter Singer made the case for an end to animal experimentation with his 1975 book, Animal Liberation. Coinciding with his book was the comprehensive and sensitive research of such ethologists as Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, who suggested that primates were capable of a full spectrum of emotions, including love, sorrow, jealousy, humor, and deceit. These animals also learned to communicate with humans by using over 300 learned signs in American Sign Language. Studies with other species produced\nsimilar results.Concerns about animal cruelty have led to the search for alternative methodologies. Of great promise in this regard is computer simulation technology. As early as 1996, psychology students were able to study “shaping” and partial reinforcement in operant conditioning, by using a computer-created “virtual rat” named Sniffy. Commensurate with such technological developments and their refinements, statistics have shown a slow but consistent yearly decline in animal experimentation through 1999.
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It's much easier to start with Vet Techs at Research Facilities on University Campus. Animal research these days is more about curing diseases and genetics, so there's no animal testing with products you'll have to worry about. But whatever the case, depending on the size of your university, you may be able to get an internship right there on campus. They are in great need of help. Try asking your Administration if there is, and if they can put you in contact with the Animal Resources dept. on your campus. They will be able to help you find an internship whether they have an opening for you or not. Hope that helps!
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It has been proven numerous times that animal testing is pointless, because more often than not, when tests of a product are performed on humans, the results are very different that they were when the tests were performed on animals, so the animals were tortured by souless people for no reason.\n\nMurderers, rapists and child molesters should be used for testing.  At least then they could actually be giving back from the society that they took from, instead of just enjoying themselves in prison.
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Would you like me to stick one of your family members in a cage and shave them bald, smear untested goop on them just to see if they break out in a rash? Or hey lets just inject them with stuff and see what happens.. I wouldnt do it to a human and I dont want it happening to animals either... ther has to be a more humane way of testing things.. if it costs more or takes longer then fine I can pay more or I can wait.