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Should we use animals for scientific tests? - Coggle Diagram
Should we use animals for scientific tests?
Argument #1: Animals have to go through agony when being used as a test with a high chance of death.
Over 100 million animals are killed worldwide just because of laboratory tests.
Animals could be exposed with toxic ingredients that could lead to many different health issues and lots of pain.
Animals could be injected with something that could harm them for life or being force-fed: forecd to eat something against their own will
Argument #2: Animals have a different biology than humans.
When the results fail it wastes time and resources and possibly an animals life.
Because animals have a different biology than humans results will differ between different species and humans
90% of drugs that are tested on animals fail in human trials
Thesis statment
Animals are not the same as humans so the tests done on them will not be as same for a human and most of the time they will have to go through suffering and pain for probably inaccurate results
History and Background
During Medieval times, animal testing continued in Moorish, Spain conducted by an Arab physician.
During the Renissance era animal testing continued to grow through the 18th and 19th century.
Animal testing was first practiced in Aristotle and Erasistratus in Ancient Greece.
Hook
Quote: Societies that lack respect for animals eventually lose respect for human beings.- Wayne Gerard Trotman.
Joke: What do you call a chicken laid on a roof? An eggroll!
Argument #3: Animal testing is wasteful, expensive and time consuming.
Animal testing requires housing, medical care, and staff which ultimately cost high amounts of money.
Some animal tests can take weeks, months ,or even years to get normally inaccurate results.
Some tests can cost millions and millions of dollars to complete when most of the time the drugs fail in human trials.
Specialized Info
there are 4 different types of animal testing: Toxicology Tests, LD50 Tests, Biomedical Research, Cosmetics Testing
Mice and rats make up 90% of all laboratory animals