Imagine yourself... Locked inside a cage without any control of your life
You can’t choose what you eat, or where you liveYou can’t even know whether it’s day or night.
You don’t know where your life will end upEven though you have committed no crime?
Welcome to the life of a laboratory animal. Isolation and misery.
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ANIMAL TESTING
ANIMAL TESTING
G e n e r a l Vivisection
The use of animals in experiments
Animals are used to test products from shampoos to cancer treatments
For medical/ cosmetics/ science research
Mostly mice, rats and rabbits
W h a t ’ s h a p p e n i n g ?
115 millions animal are experimented on and killed in laboratories in the US
8 million in painful experiments
At least 10% of the lab animals do not receive painkillers
After the experiment, surviving animals are killed
Beliefs in animal moral rights decrease in age, with the highest support from 18 to 29
S a y Y e s ?
Necessary for the advance of biological research
Human is ‘superior’ to animals
Moral rights aren’t applied to
animals
To save human, animals sacrifice
o r N o ?A crime Animals do feel pain Human evolved from animals Right to live as a subject of nature Not reliable
1655, physiology Edmund O’Meara argued: "the miserable torture of vivisection places the body in an unnatural state.”
400 different methods that can
effectively replace animal experiments
= > Experiments can be achieved
without abusing animals
Experts Experts
Imagine one of your family member is in pain and suffering from a threatening
disease
They have committed no crime
DILEMMADILEMMA
So far…
Ethical dilemmaUntil we have better solutions, we must use animal
testingMake sure minimum of suffering
Conclusion
Make a better worldMake a better world
Bibliography
• http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2008/1013/1223680463658.html
• http://www.geocities.com/paws_n_tails/AnimalTestingFacts.html
• http://www.buzzle.com/articles/animal-testing-facts.html
• http://www.animalport.com/animal-testing/animal-testing-facts-figures.html
• http://www.animaltestingfacts.zoomshare.com/• http://www.stopanimaltests.com/AnimalsinLabs.asp
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