Should Vivisection Be Made Illegal?

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Should Vivisection Be Made Illegal?

        Vivisection is experimentation on living animals for scientific research. This experimentation can involve animals being burnt, crushed, sliced, electrocuted, tortured with drugs or poisoned with toxic chemicals. Vivisection has been carried out ever since the time humans developed knives. Governments have a very difficult decision on whether to ban vivisection or not. This is because humans can benefit from it but sometimes at the expense of an animal. The use of animals in testing cosmetics and cosmetic ingredients is now banned in the United Kingdom. This does not include research on drugs.

        One point that people become stressed over is that too many animals are being killed,

 Of the 2.7 million experiments carried out in 1999, over eighty five per cent were mice, rats and other rodents.”

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Less then one per cent were dogs, cats, horses and monkeys. This does not sound like much but in fact it was 5,933 dogs and 3,191 monkeys,

        “Every second of everyday of every year an animal dies in an experiment in the United States.”

        Thousands of animals are being killed and animal researchers understand people are concerned and say the conditions are being improved enormously. There are in fact very tight laws to control the use of animals.

        Most of the major advances in the last century would have been impossible without animal research. Anaesthetics, insulin, polio vaccines, penicillin and ...

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