How are animals used in cosmetics and food research?
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yes.. very often.. they use them for a lot of eye make ups to see if it is an irritant
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Some cancer research centers test on animals and the resulting products have extended the lives of cancer patients.
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An animal that has been frequently used in laboratory testing due to it's biological likeness to humans.\n\nsee also...\n\nhttp://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761560421/Rhesus_Monkey.html
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This product is manufactured and is marketed in europe and africa this is used in getting extract and using is several anti viral drugs preparations in veternary medicines and also used in human to increase the sexual appetite in the male.
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since most vets have studied mammals, they understand many conditions of the human body. however, it is not legal. they are licensed for the care of animals. the majority of their training has been specialized towards non-human animals. as you may know, many new drugs are first tested on animals before used in volunteer research studies with actual humans. if the drugs don't work as desired on the animals they never make FDA approval for use in humans. even so, many drugs that do well in rats and monkeys still do not produce the desired effect in humans. and in response to what someone else said about animals using the same medicines... it is true they use the same drugs to treat many conditions, however, the reason they cost less is because they are not produced under the same level of standards as for human consumption. so if you wouldn't eat dog food, then you shouldn't take dog medicines either.
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Well, firstly I think you need to define what you mean by "experimentation". Most of the people who have posted answers seem to have assumed that it refers specifically to experiments involving drugs, other chemicals or invasive techniques.  Maybe that's what you're assuming too, but there are many other fields of science that use animals for experiments to find out about their behaviour or ecology.  Some of these studies might involve wild animals, captive bred lab animals or wild animals caught for the experiment.  So now someone might think "well, ok but it's just the cruel medical experiments that make animals suffer that we are wanting to consider".  But it isn't that simple.  Some behavioural experiments might involve, food and water deprivation, handling stress, allowing animals to fight and injure / kill each other.  And similarly, a lot of medical and neuroscience research is carried out in such a way that the animals involved have a reasonable quality of life and a relatively humane and painless death.  So banning ALL experimentation on animals (except small rodents and insects) would clearly damage our ability to learn about our world, the ecosystems in it, the diseases that kill us and a whole range of other important things that science is currently investigating.  However, the other side of the coin is that allowing an open slather on all animal research would clearly expose many animals to cruel, painful procedures that yield only superficial gains for humans and for animals (tests of allergies to cosmetic products springs to mind as an example of cruel research yielding little gain).  What I'm trying to illustrate here is that, like most moral and political issues, animal experimentation is complicated and contains a lot of grey areas.  There is no one answer that is correct and appropriate for all situations.  You must way up the cost to animal (in terms of pain, distress and quality of life) with the potential benefits of the research (progress in disease treatments, better understanding of ecology and environment, for example).  And of course not everybody will agree on how costs and benefits would way up.  Imagine some experiments that work in such a way that for every monkey who dies (humanely) an extra person will be saved by the treatment.  Would you consider that reasonable?  What if the monkey died a painful death instead of a humane one?  What if it were ten monkeys to every person saved, or a hundred monkeys?  What if it were a thousand people each monkey could save? What if the monkey couldn't save anyone's life but could just prolong the lives of sick people for a while? What if it wasn't a monkey, but a cat or a rat?  What if there were other research options available, but they might take 6mths longer, or six years longer before the treatments are available?  Even if everybody was considering all the same aspects, people would differ in where they draw the line between reasonable and unreasonable.  So for this complicated issue, maybe the best "bill" is one that provides guidelines and instructions on how research should be evaluated, but leaves the decision of whether or not each particular experiment goes ahead up to a group of relevant people who understand the costs and benefits and can make an informed decision.  I hope this helps you have an interesting discussion in class.
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It allows people to see the internal structures of animals to help them gain an understanding of the human body and its functions (in a school environment) BUT...this same thing could be accomplished with a very graphically intense computer simulation as well.\n\nIn medical research it allows researchers to determine how diseases function, how to stop them, what impact various things have on living tissue, etc.
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animal by products are what is left after the processing is done on the slaughtered animal. in butchering a steer, all of the edible beef is quartered and sent for additional cutting, the head, tail, hooves, excess trimmed fat, blood, lungs, intestines and other organs are the initial by products. these become either specialty products for use in human foods like the tongue, and the liver. what is left, like in the blood, is used to make fertilizer and other products. the hooves are boiled down to make glue and gelatin, the hide is used to make leather. by products are used to make cat and dog food. recently it is forbidden to use any brain and spinal chord products for animal feed consumption i believe due to concerns over bovine spongiform encephalitis, or mad cow disease.
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You answered your own question about stem cell research. I encourage you to learn more. \n\nRegarding replacing animal testing, you are comparing 2 completely different things. A stem cell is a cell. It has the functionality of a cell. It is unique because it can be treated with a variety of biochemical processes to cause it to differentiate, but it will never function as a whole living system. \n\nWhen a vaccine is studied, for example, the creators must know how the vaccine interacts with every system of the body. Sure, you can demonstrate in a petri dish that the vaccine binds flu virus. Great. That's the FIRST step! But how do you know it won't bind the interior surface of the lung in a living body? how do you klnow how it is working? How do you know what systems in the body improve its function? How do you know that 3 days after vaccination there can be an allergic reaction in people with impaired immune systems becasue the incidence of CD4 cells in the airways can cause asthma (this is a hypothetical case, BTW, used to illustrate the complexity of the issue)? The only way to know is to test it in a living body. Period. \n\nHere is a very good web site debunking the popular myths surrounding animal research: \n\nhttp://www.huntingdon.com/index.php?currentNumber=4.9&currentIsExpanded=0\n\nBy the way- two facts most people do not know:\n1) Animal research is much more strictly regulated than human\n2) At all reputable research facilities, the use of every animal used in testing must be justified to government regulatory agencies, and to a representative of public interest\n\nThe use of animals is governed by groups of people dedicated to making critical, and tough, ethical decisions, weighing risk vs benefit, and carefully assessing every proposed study. The benefit to human and animal health and well-being  is alwasy considered very carefully in each decision.\n\nI encourage to learn more about this topic, and continue to ask thoughtful questions.
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Ya why not? If you really think about humans have been modifying plants and animals for a long time.  When we first tilled the soil and intentionally planted a seed that nature didn't put there and we first slaughtered an animal we raised for that soul purpose, we have been modifying nature.  Now its just so that we can have healthier food in more quantities.\n\nSome current applications of plant biotechnology include:\nDeveloping plants that are resistant to diseases, pests, and stress\nKeeping fruits and vegetables fresh for longer periods of time which is extremely important in tropical countries\nProducing plants that possess healthy fats and oils\nProducing plants that have increased nutritive value\nProducing soybeans with a higher expression of the anti-cancer proteins naturally found in soybeans\nDeveloping a whole range of higher value added feed\nOther applications such as lignin modification in trees that will make possible much higher fiber extraction rates in the paper and pulp industry\nProducing new substances in plants, including biodegradable plastics, and small proteins or peptides such as prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines\n\nAnimals \nIncreased resistance, productivity, hardiness, and feed efficiency \nBetter yields of meat, eggs, and milk \nImproved animal health and diagnostic methods
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~ genetic engineering of food, especially for third world countries, and replacing lost vitamins, minerals, etc.\n~ DNA fingerprinting, DNA polymerase, for crime scene investigations\n~ Scientists are now able to clone virtually anything to improve the desired characteristics. For example, genetically engineered animals like pigs are now being tried out to include omega 3 fatty acids for all those meat lovers. (Pigs have more omega 6 fatty acids originally.)\n~ There are so many more values of genetic engineering. You need to do some research on this. Try looking on the web, or in your school textbook (i.e. Biotechnology Unit). It is a hotly debated topic, so its scope is extremely wide. \nGood luck!!! :)\n\n*ANON*
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Culturing animal cells and tissue is used as a replicable way to test drugs and to examine pathways.  The theory of this technique is that cells or tissues grown in culture are good models of the animal itself.  We can grow whole sheets of muscle cells, which form functional, twitching masses; neuronal cell cultures which grow processes and form functional synapses, etc.
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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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a perfume can be made by synthesising an organic compound the same, or similar to a natural compound which has an attractive smell, these can then be mixed with other such molecules to create a blend.  They are then put in an alcohol based volitile solvent for application.\n\nAlternatively natural compounds can be used by solvent extraction of them from the plant/animal.
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Biotechnology in one form or another has flourished since prehistoric times. When the first human beings realized that they could plant their own crops and breed their own animals, they learned to use biotechnology. The discovery that fruit juices fermented into wine, or that milk could be converted into cheese or yogurt, or that beer could be made by fermenting solutions of malt and hops began the study of biotechnology. When the first bakers found that they could make a soft, spongy bread rather than a firm, thin cracker, they were acting as fledgling biotechnologists. The first animal breeders, realizing that different physical traits could be either magnified or lost by mating appropriate pairs of animals, engaged in the manipulations of biotechnology. \n\nWhat then is biotechnology? The term brings to mind many different things. Some think of developing new types of animals. Others dream of almost unlimited sources of human therapeutic drugs. Still others envision the possibility of growing crops that are more nutritious and naturally pest-resistant to feed a rapidly growing world population. This question elicits almost as many first-thought responses as there are people to whom the question can be posed. \n\nBiotechnology is “any technique that uses living organisms or substances from those organisms, to make or modify a product, to improve plants or animals, or to develop microorganisms for specific purposes
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It is often alledged that all forms of animal testing could be replaced by other means. However other means are often left vague.\n\nThere are computer simulation techniques to try to select appropriate molecules but all they do is whittle dosn the list of probable compounds which might work. Some of them are int he public domain (look at http://www.grid.org/download/gold/download.htm) soem are complex private modelling tools.\n\nBut they are not comprhensive. I have friends who work for the Pharmaceutical Industry * medics, all without exception say there is no way they would trust a new compund that hadn't been tested before use. They are open about how it can be tested, but make the point that the human body is a complex mechanism, it cannot be simulated by computer, nor by cellular level trials. sometimes the side effecxts (and most compounds do have side effects) are seen in other parts of the body than expected, or can\nbe more severe than predicted.\n\nI don't think there is anyone who would condone testing of cosmetics and beauty products on animals (which are relativel easy to test on human volunteers, after all skin cells can be effectively tested, but pharamceutical compounds?\n\nThere may be a day when such compounds can be tested entirely in a computer, but I don't think its any where near there (yet). Simply we do not have enough information to create a realistic simulation model. Even so I'd still be very reluctant to be the first user of such a compound.
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It is depended on following matters.\n1) The purpose of testing.\n2) The advantages and disadvantages to the animal.\n3) The effectness to the equilibrium of global environment.