topic selection

The topic I chose for this essay has to do with animal experimentation. More specifically animal testing in the medical field. I want to look into how ethical it is and how people view it. I have always had a hard time supporting animal testing. I have always grown up with pets and I just care about animals and I believe that they have rights as well. I have done research about animal testing in the cosmetics industry. The only reason that many companies test on animals is because it is required to sell anything in china. I don't buy makeup from company's that test on animals for any reason. This is something I am very passionate about, I am wondering if it more acceptable in the medical field. I know that medicine is different than makeup because we are trying to find cures and things that we don't already know about. However I am wondering if there is a better alternative solution to it.

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This is the link to my first article that I found. This one presents both sides of the argument. One of the main points that supports my side is that testing on animals doesn't give us an accurate guess of what a treatment will do to humans. We are so anatomically and genetically different from animals that it does us no good except telling us how a treatment affects the animal. The other side of this argument is that there is nothing that we can use to replicate the complexity of the human body except for another living thing.

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Here is the second article. This one talks about the different laws that are in place and the loopholes and inconsistencies of them. It also talks about recent studies bout how much animals can feel pain and distress. It talks about all of the countless ways that animals are abused and all of the things they are deprived of to eliminate confounding factors in the experiments. It also mentions how testing on animals is a poor representation of how a treatment will affect humans.