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Is Animal Testing Ethical? - Coggle Diagram
Is Animal Testing Ethical?
Argument 1
: Violation of Animal's Rights
Animal rights are violated when they are used in research
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Animal rights are supposed to be
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it should gain something positive or prevented from experiencing negative thing
it is permitted to do something
it should not be prevented from doing or not doing something
Counter-Argument:
Benefits to human outweighs the harm to animals.
Many advancements in modern medicine relied on animal testing
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Hepatitis B vaccine - Chimpanzee
Insulin - Dog pancreas
Refutation:
Animal studies do not reliably predict human outcomes
Nine out of ten drugs that appear promising in animal studies go on to fail in human clinical trials
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Artificially induced illnesses in animals don’t get human diseases and conditions
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Argument 2
:The pain and suffering that experimental animal is subjected to is not worth any possible benefits to humans.
Evidence 1
Animals are sentimental beings.
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Animals exhibit pain in comparable ways to humans
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Evidence 2
LD 50
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The Draize test
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Argument 3
: The testing of products on animals is completely unnecessary because viable alternatives are available
Computer Aided Drug Design (CADD)
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In-vitro human immune system
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Conclusion
Restate thesis statement
Humans cannot justify torturing and killing animals to conduct laboratory experiments in the name of improving their lives
Animals should be treated with respect and dignity
Introduction
Thesis Statement
Animal testing is unethical because it violates animals’ rights, it causes pain and suffering to experimental animals, and it is unnecessary as other viable alternatives are available
Hook
Every year, over 100 million animals are burned, paralysed, poisoned, and tormented in laboratories across the United States.
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General Info
Examples of animal testing
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History of Animal Testing
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What is animal testing
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