Arguing Against Animal Experimentation

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...Psychological Association support the use of animals in psychological experimentation (Vonk 1167; Shapiro 1167). People protect and respect the rights of the mentally handicapped. They should be able to extend the same protection and preference to animals. Those who reason that giving rights to animals would interfere with the resolution of human problems are flawed in their thinking. Man has created the countless problems for its own species due to the disrespect for other species and the environment (Vonk 1167). The question of whether animals are sentient is important for those who use animals in research or the production of clinical products (Staff 1789). I, for one, believe that they are. Vivisection has been practiced since the beginning of scientific medicine, in ancient Greece and Rome. In the second half of the nineteenth century experimentation on living animals became a quintessential part of physiology as an institutionalized profession (LaFollette PG). According to estimation by the American Medical Association, biomedical researchers use between 17-22 million animals each year (LaFollette PG). A sufficiently large...

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