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A 4 page research paper that examines the issues surrounding alternatives to animal testing. Examination of why researchers should consider alternatives to animal testing in laboratories show that the arguments against this practice are persuasive and backed up with empirical research. These arguments state that (1) animal testing is often simply an entrenched procedure, which is continued due to tradition and law, rather than its efficacy; (2) successful alternative methods for testing have been discovered, which makes it logical to assume that further alternatives could be formulated; (3) animal testing is expensive as compared to alternative methods; (4) alternative methods are produce faster results, and (5) animal testing is cruel and, therefore, immoral. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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knowledge of science (Coghlan, 2002). Many people have come to view this use of animals as unethical, while others argue that animal testing is the only truly adequate way
to test the safety of new products and medicines. In addition to taking the philosophical high ground, examination of why researchers should consider alternatives to animal testing in laboratories show
that the arguments against this practice are persuasive and backed up with empirical research. These arguments state that (1) animal testing is often simply an entrenched procedure, which is continued
due to tradition and law, rather than its efficacy; (2) successful alternative methods for testing have been discovered, which makes it logical to assume that further alternatives could be
formulated; (3) animal testing is expensive as compared to alternative methods; (4) alternative methods are produce faster results, and (5) animal testing is cruel and, therefore, immoral. In many
cases, scientists and researchers continue to employ animal testing because that is "the way that its always been done." According to Coghlan (2002), a good example of this sort of
bureaucratic mentality is the "lethal dose 50" test for acute toxicity demanded by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This test has researchers expose groups of animals to successively higher
doses of a chemical until half the group dies. Even though other countries abandoned this practice years ago in favor of alternative methods for measuring toxicity, the EPA only abandoned
this practice reluctantly in 2000 (Coghlan, 2002). Rather than acquiesce to the growing public opposition against animal testing, the US Animal Welfare Act of 2002 downgraded rats, mice and
birds to "non-animal" status so that they would not be protected by the legislation (Coghlan, 2002). According to Michael Balls, the head of the European Centre for the Validation
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