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A 4 page paper providing an overview of ethical issues concerning animal rights & testing. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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target institutions and companies that refuse to give up testing (From what I read, at least 550 have agreed to stop). One of PETAs most recent targets is Gillette,
which, in 1993, used 2,304 animals to test its toiletries (Foster, 1995). A particularly horrible practice--the Draize test, involving repeated exposures of rabbits eyes to toxins--was drastically scaled back
after a public campaign led by one activist named Henry Spira (Foster, 1995). Medical experimentation has often served the needs of a "publish or perish" principle,
rather than any scientific end, and much of it is duplicative. An emerging health emphasis on prevention, rather than treatment, will likely reduce our nations dependency on drugs and high-tech
medical fixes, and the resulting need to test new drugs and procedures on animals. Some alternatives to animal testing--including cell and organ cultures, computer and mathematical simulations, and human placenta
and clinical studies--are gaining ground. Computers are also aiding in the exchange of scientific information, which minimizes duplication of research (Singer, 1995). Unfortunately, the
Animal Welfare Act, updated in 1986, does little to protect animals from experimentation or reduce their numbers, and only requires that they be "humanely" treated, a concept open to broad
interpretation. Military experiments on animals have resulted in cats being shot in the head, monkeys force-fed LSD and pigs burned with blowtorches (Audette, 1990). Animal
experimentation is big business, and has suffered only minor setbacks from the century-old anti-vivisection movement. Every year, an average of 25 million animals--85 percent of them rats and mice--die in
U.S. experiments. Of these, 500,000 to one million are killed simply to test cosmetics and to comply with federally required product safety laws (which do not, however, specifically mandate animal
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