Animal Experimentation:

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Animal Experimentation Wasted Money, Wasted
Lives
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Animals are nothing more than unconscious
machines. Lacking consciousness, they lack reason
or language. Descartes felt that an animals cry
was akin to the squeaking of a clock that needed
oiling.
Rene Descartes French Philosopher
Vivisector (1596 1650)
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Testing of Cosmetics Household Products
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Testing of Companion Animal Food
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Funded by Charities
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Life-Saver Charities Helping without Hurting
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The Government Gravy Train Taxpayer-Funded
Cruelty
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Columbia Cruelty
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Video
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Ethical Arguments against Vivisection Animal
Rights
Atrocities are not less atrocities when they
occur in laboratories and are called medical
research. You do not settle whether an experiment
is justified or not by merely showing that it is
of some use. The distinction is not between
useful and useless experiments, but between
barbarous and civilized behavior. - George
Bernard Shaw
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Ethical Arguments against Vivisection Animal
Welfare

• Enriched environments
• More space
• Better veterinary care
• Mandatory use of pain relief before, during, and
  after invasive procedures
• Also

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Ethical Arguments against Vivisection Limited
Resources
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Animal Experimentation The Scientific Consensus
Changes
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• The history of cancer research
• has been a history of curing cancer
• in the mouse. We have cured mice
• of cancer for decades, and it
• simply didnt work in humans.
• Dr. Richard Klausner,
• National Cancer Institute

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• Clinicians and the public often
• consider it axiomatic that animal
• research has contributed to the
• treatment of human disease, yet
• little evidence is available to
• support this view.
• From the article, Where is the evidence that
  animal research benefits humans?
• British Medical Journal (Feb. 2004)

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Whats the Goal?
Hey what about me??
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Studies conducted on mice and rats found that
46 of chemicals found to be cancer-causing in
rats were not cancer-causing in mice.
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Penicillin
How fortunate we didnt have these animal tests
in the 1940s, for penicillin would probably have
never been granted a license, and probably the
whole field of antibiotics might never have been
realized. - Sir Alexander Fleming (scientist
credited with discovering penicillin)
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• FDA (August 2004) Only 8 of drugs that pass the
  animal trials are introduced to the marketplace

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• Pharmagene Laboratories
• Physiome Sciences
• TOPKAT
• Corrositex
• Artificial Human Skin
• National Cancer Registry

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