Animal Testing

What is Animal Testing?

Dictionary Definition of Animal Testing is the following:

the use of non-human animals in research and development projects, esp. for purposes of determining the safety of substances such as foods or drugs

My Definition of Animal Testing is the Following:

It is the use of an non human and is performed in a series of tests and experiments, some get hurt really badly and other die. It is usually used for medical reason or to premote prodcuts.

Facts about Animal Testing:

In the United States every year there is about 115 million animals that are experimented, tested and killed. (“Animal Testing”) That is a lot of animals that we loose every year just so that we have household cleaner and so that woman can look their best when they put make-up on.
Fact! You can not even get an accurate count on how many animals are experimented, tested and killed because the government says that rats; mice, etc. do not count.



Facts on the History of Animal Testing Animal Testing has been around for many years now. The first known case of animal testing was first descovered as early as the third and also the fourth centuries by the Greeks. There was also a man named Galen that was in the second century Rome that was doing animal testing on animals like pigs and goats. This man was known as the "father of vivisection". Vivisection is also known as cutting up of living and breathing animals. Animal Testing has played a role for many years now in numerous differnet cases. For example in 1796 Edward Jenner took out pus from pox infected cow to inoculate James Phipps against smallpox.

References:

Tybanks. Animal Testing: Pros and Cons. 2005. 14 June 2006

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Unknown. Geari. 21 June 2006 <http://www.geari.org/alternatives-to- animal-testing.html>

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Emily Highley
eghigh01@moreheadstate.edu