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A 3 page paper that begins with a very recent example of how animal testing is helping totally paralyzed persons to communicate. The paper comments on how some people are misinformed about animal testing and discusses two of the laws governing the use of animals in research. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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purposes has a long history and while such testing may have been cruel a long time ago, it no longer is. Without animal testing, we would not have thousands of
medications and treatments for almost any disease, condition or illness you can name. A very recent example was illustrated on the program "60 Minutes" broadcast on August 9, 2009. Neuroscientists
have developed a way to connect the brain (through the skin on the scalp, not invasive) of a completely paralyzed person to a computer so that the patient can spell
out a word and it appears on the computer screen and is spoken by a computer voice. In another case, a patient has an implant that allows her to communicate
with the computer, moving the icon to emails, etc. A monkey was used to develop these remarkable achievements that will provide a means of communication and even movement of paralyzed
limbs in the future. Animal rights activists and protestors are misinformed and philosophically and ideologically out of touch with how animals are protected and the myriad of laws that
govern their use. Animal rights activities view the life of any living creature as equal to the life of a human (Foundation for Biomedical Research, 2009). A good argument can
be made for that ideology with some animals but "Virtually every major medical advance of the last century has depended upon research with animals" (Foundation for Biomedical Research, 2009). Testing
new products, medications, etc. on humans is illegal and unethical. Treating any animal cruelly is also unethical. However, there are so many laws governing such research and testing that animals
are now treated very, very well in the laboratories. If any research program violates any of the myriad of regulations, they can be charged both criminally and civilly. Under the
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