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Kelly Scegrua

Why Lab Animals are Still Used | LiveScience - 0 views

  • Most of the anger is against those rare studies involving monkeys, because they are so much like us, or dogs, because their man's best friend, or rabbits, because they are so darn cute.
  • motivated people who use animals in their research because they want to help humans and because they have no non-animal alternative.
Kelly Scegrua

Animal Testing Is Bad Science: Point/Counterpoint | PETA.org - 0 views

  • Studies published in prestigious medical journals have shown time and again that animal experimenters are often wasting lives—both animal and human
  • medical historians report that improved nutrition, sanitation, and other behavioral and environmental factors—rather than anything learned from animal experiments—
  • The fact is that we already do test new drugs on people.
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  • someone will always be the first human to be tested on.Because animal tests are so unreliable, they make those human trials all the more risky
  • 92 percent of all drugs that are shown to be safe and effective in animal tests fail in human trials because they don’t work or are dangerous.
  • half are relabeled because of side effects that were not identified in animal tests. 
  • prescription drugs kill 100,000 people each year, making them our nation's fourth-biggest killer.
  • The only U.S. law that governs the use of animals in laboratories—the Animal Welfare Act—allows animals to be burned, shocked, poisoned, isolated, starved, forcibly restrained, addicted to drugs, and brain-damaged
  • pain-killers are not even required. 
  • Because the Act specifically excludes rats, mice, birds and cold-blooded animals, more than 95 percent of the animals used in laboratories are not subject to the minimal protections provided by federal laws
  • scientists have used human brain cells to develop a model "microbrain," which can be used to study tumors, as well as artificial skin and bone marrow. We can now test irritancy on protein membranes, produce and test vaccines using human tissues, and perform pregnancy tests using blood samples instead of killing rabbits
  • Today, one can even become a board-certified surgeon without harming any animals.
  • In the United Kingdom , it's against the law for medical (and veterinary) students to practice surgery on animals.
  • They believe it is acceptable to harm animals because they are weaker, they look different and because their pain is less important than humans’.
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ASPCA | Animal Testing - 0 views

  • Most other animals stay in their cages all the time except when they are being used in experiments.
  • They can become tremendously lonely
  • 1.4 million animals counted by the USDA
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  • that are used in research do not feel pain from the experiments.
  • no way of knowing how many rats and mice do not feel pain in research.
  • 489,262 animals that were used in research last year
  • ) were used in research that was either painful, distressful
  • 103,764 of the animals made to feel pain were not given anything
  • 100,000 animals were made to feel pain and fear in 2002
  • ittle pain now will prevent a lot of pain later.
  • e animals are only used in one experiment,
  • more than a hundred years to help prevent cruelty
  • The Act requires that animals receive veterinary care; adequate, clean food and water; protection from the elements and extreme temperatures; and adequate, clean housing. The Animal Welfare Act also covers animals in zoos, aquaria, and circuses, as well as animals transported to and from places overseas. Any place that wishes to do research on animals must register with the USDA
  • For example, much of the beginning work showing the link between smoking and heart disease was done by seeing how many people who smoke have heart attacks and strokes versus how many people who don't smoke.
  • Replacement - Whenever possible, we should replace living, feeling animals with other things like tissue cultures and computer simulations.
  • We should use as few animals in an experiment as we can. We should be very careful to be sure that experiments on animals are necessary.
  • Edward Jenner, the man who created the first vaccination ever, developed it on humans. The father of genetics, Brother Gregor Mendel, explored inheritance very peacefully in pea plants.
  • Currently, 14 states have passed laws making it illegal for animals in shelters to be sold for research.
  • It is illegal in all 50 states for stolen animals to be sold or used in research.
  • unusual for an animal in the lab to live out its full life
  • Scientists must have stronger reasons to do research on animals now than they used to if they want the IACUC to let them do the research.
  • IACUC, which stands for Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees.
  • Scientists are now able to do experiments without animals that they couldn't do before.
  • For example, skin cells can be kept alive in a dish and studied without hurting the animal beyond first taking the skin cells
  • Improving the lives of animals used in research.
  • The Animal Welfare Act mostly addresses refinement.
  • concerned voices of caring people who are not themselves scientists
  • (not including mice, rats, and birds—no one knows how many of these animals are used in research
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