Animal Testing Argument

Vivisection is described in the dictionary as:

The practice of performing operations on live animals for the purpose of experimentation or scientific research (used by those opposed to such work). Vivisection literally means the 'cutting up' of living animals, but has now become more generally used as the term for all experiments on living animals (in vivo) as many animal experiments, such as toxicity tests, will not involve surgical procedures.

Vivisection is used in laboratories across the world as a 'humane' way of testing products on animals before they are sold to the public. I am strongly against this barbaric excuse of scientific research as it contradicts all that has been worked for in today's world...the right to equality, whatever the situation whether human or animal.

One argument for is that humans are more important than animals. This, I'm sorry, seems utterly absurd. To classify a race that causes wars, mass deaths and in-tolerance to other creeds as more important than animals who cause little damage to the world seems naive.

However, the fact that we, humans, have the world as it is today gives us some credit. The new life-saving technology, mass communication abilities and anti-dotes to once incurable diseases allows us to live the fast track cosmopolitan lifestyle that we lead...however, the fact that we have these luxuries has a lot to do with animal testing. How did we find these cures to fatal diseases? Yes, through testing the medicines on innocent animals.
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Another argument for vivisection is that only approximately 5% of medical research is done on animals, if we look at these figures more closely we realise that 5% is a staggering figure. In 1998 in the UK a staggering 2,659,662 experiments were conducted on 2,593,587 animals. Since 1990 the number of experiments on genetically manipulated animals in Britain has risen by 827%, making this the most rapidly expanding area of animal experimentation in the UK. These horrific figures allow us to see the full extent of the suffering that animals endure each day in labs across the UK. ...

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