Is animal experimentation necessary? Are there any alternatives?

Animal protection organisations are expanding throughout the globe and with that, animal experimentation is being questioned and becoming a relevant issue to be discussed. While scientists argue that using animal models is crucial for scientific advances, activists defend that there should be some alternative for

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cruel practice. It's common sense that animals

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be explored for any kind of activity. With evolution, humans developed the capacity to overpower less evolved

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creatures, but

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use those acquired

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the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment

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as intelligence) to

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to do something different.

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, some lines of research demands that animals

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as rabbits, mice or even dogs are used in order to make an important discovery. An example would be new cancer treatments that

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to be tested on a live organism before it's employed in human beings.

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is absolutely necessary since we can't give people a potentially hazardous drug without testing its safety beforehand. Of

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course, there

is a chance of causing damaging side effects on the laboratory animals as well, but it's a case of choosing the lesser evil. Other industries

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as beauty and cosmetics

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tests their products on animals. As most of the vegan and cruelty-free cosmetics do, there is an alternative which is using ingredients that were already tested and approved for human use. But sometimes, as mentioned before, testing on animals is essential for the development of an important product.

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, researchers have developed tissues that

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human skin and other organs and could be used to decrease the amount of tests performed on animals. In conclusion, even if the majority of people believe that animal experimentation should be banned, science still has to evolve for that to be possible. Right now, what can be done is try to abolish tests on animals in every situation that it is not absolutely necessary and increase research

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