Against

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• Against
• Animal Testing
• By Tsuefue Moua
• Section 621

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History

• Animal testing can be traced to the times of
  Aristotle.
• He, among others, were famous for dissecting pigs
  and live stock to gather information about the
  body.
• Product testing, using animals, started in the
  late 1920s.
• Began when a woman, using Lash Lure mascara, went
  blind and eventually died from the product.
• In 1938, the FDA passed the Federal Food, Drug,
  and Cosmetic Act in order to protect the public
  from incidents like this.
• In the mid 1920s, 70 of dogs used to find the
  treatment for diabetes was useless.

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QA

• How are animals tested?
• The Draize Test
• Method of dropping chemicals directly into the
  eyes of an animal to see the effects on the
  cornea. Usually confined in a cramp cage and
  given no anesthesia . Tests can last up to 18
  days while having the animals eye lids open
  during the whole process. Most animal die in the
  process of escape.
• LD50
• Use to determine the toxicity levels of a
  product. Animals can be either force feed through
  a tube, have their throats cut open, force into
  the rectum or vagina, gassed or even injected
  into the skin and blood vessels. 50 100 of the
  animals will die after they test due to the
  chemicals they are injected with.

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QA

• How are animals tested?
• Useless Acts
• Undercover reports from PETA, an organization
  helping to stop animal testing, have shown that
  many researchers experiment on animals because
  they didnt have anything else to do.

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QA

• How are the animals treated during the tests?
• All animals in labs suffer from various amounts
  of pain, many die within seconds of some
  experiments.
• Many are locked up in cages that prevent them
  from moving for weeks and some are locked away
  for years!
• Dogs are beaten brutally and many times
  researchers cut their vocal cords off to keep
  them quiet.
• Lab animals are sometimes tested WITHOUT any form
  of anesthesia.
• In order to tell what animal had what products,
  they sometimes scar the animals, either by
  cutting marks into them or burning them.

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QA

• Is using animals really worth it?

• Sometimes, but countless researchers and
  scientist have concluded that using animals to
  test products can be misleading.
• Hundreds of products are pulled off the shelves
  each year because of misinterpret information.
• Animals are no way related to humans.
• The cost of using animals are higher than their
  alternatives.
• Also less reliable.

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Alternatives

• Eytex
• A test tube procedure that gives better results
  than the Driaze test for eye irritations.
• Skintex
• A test tube procedure that detects skin
  irritation.
• EpiPack
• Uses cloned human tissue to detect chemical
  reactions on the skin.
• Neutral Red Bioassay
• Culture human cells used to detect toxicity
• Testskin
• Skin cells used to read skin irritation.
• TOPKAT
• Computer that detects everything a chemical can
  do to the human body.
• Ames Test
• Detect carcinogens.
• Agarose Diffusion Method
• Test for toxicity in artificial body parts.

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Statistic
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References

• "Alternatives." Hot Topics. 17 Aug 2004. BBC. 10
  Nov 2007 lthttp//www.bbc.co.uk/science/hottopics/a
  nimalexperiments/alternatives.shtmlgt.
• Animal Testing. 2007. PETA. 10 Nov 2007
  lthttp//www.petatv.com/gt.
• Geari, Justin. "Animal Testing Product Testing
  General information." Geari. 14 Nov 2007. 10 Nov
  2007 lthttp//geari.org/index.htmlgt.
• Stevens, Karen. "Animal Testing Alternatives."
  All For Animals. 2006. AFA. 10 Nov 2007
  lthttp//www.allforanimals.com/alternatives1.htmgt.