Do we really need a new loo cleaner?

Would you kill for another shampoo? More than 2.7 million live animal experiments were authorized in Great Britain in 2002 alone. I ask is this a fair price to pay for a clean toilet? Around the world, animals are used to test products ranging from shampoo to new cancer drugs. But sometime these drugs are not assured to be safe as animals are under so much stress that it can affect the results of the test.

Others say that “almost every medical treatment you use has been tested on animals including anesthetics to prevent human pain and suffering during surgery; without animal testing these drugs could not been used safely.” Also that “Operations on animals helped to develop organ transplant and open-heart surgery, surgical techniques like these would not have been developed as easily without animal testing.” Scientists claim there are no differences in lab animals and humans that cannot be developed into new tests creating a more reliable result.

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Animals are still used to test items like cleaning products, which benefit less to humans than medicines or surgery. Successful alternatives include test tube studies using human tissue cultures, statistics and computer models these could even give a more accurate view of what would happen to a real human and with out animals suffering for it.

Human life has greater intrinsic value than animal life, argue people that are for animal testing. Millions of animals are killed for food every year; if anything; medical research is a more worthy death. Few animals feel any pain as they are killed before ...

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