Animal Rights

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controversial issue
like animal research and experimentation my views vary. A few years ago I felt
that any research or experimentation on animals was inhumane and unjust. However
after maturing and becoming more aware of the world, I now feel as though there
are definite ‘goods’ that come from animal research that can not come from doing
tests on humans. This view is by no means one sided. I also feel that there are
some things being done to animals that just should not happen, such as the
testing of cosmetics. In other areas of animal rights like dissection in the
classroom I think that as long as the animals died naturally it is fine to use
them to further a students education along with human cadavers. Of course, I
hope that
animal dissection can become a thing of the past with the advent of new
technologies. On the topic of hunting I have had a first hand experience. The
deer population where I live grew out of control a few years ago and as a last
resort the town decided to ...

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them to wound experiments, radiation experiments and studies on the
effects of chemical warfare.(PETA, 2) Organizations such as PETA are also
opposed to cosmetic testing on animals due to experimenters spraying, injecting,
and feeding cosmetics to animals which cause labored breathing, blindness and
death in some cases. These organizations argue that cosmetics have already been
tested on animals in the past why continue doing the same tests. Due to the
protests of The Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing in 1981, Avon and
Revlon have stopped using animals in their research.(Comptons, CD) Experiments
and research on animals such as the LD50 test and cosmetic tests are, according
to ...

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