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Some people argue that all experimentation on animals is bad and should be outlawed. However, others believe that important scientific discoveries can be made from animal experiment. Can experimentation on animals be justified? Are there any alternatives?

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There is an old and endless discussion about animal experiments that divides opinions among the population. Whilst some people argue that it is not necessary, others still believe
that is
 crucial for scientific discoveries.
However
, I don’t agree that testing in
animals
 is justified and I believe there are alternatives to
this
. One popular example of the use of animal experimentation is the cosmetics industry. To test whether a cosmetic is safe
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consumers, they use
animals
 as the primary testers.
This
 kind of test causes a lot of suffering to the
animals
, which live in a cage until the day they die suffering
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inimaginable
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unimaginable
 pain. , these experiments are not justified and there are even industries that have never tested
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animals
. Healthcare manufacturing is another example of animal experimentation.
It is clear that
 animal tests had a crucial role not only in the development of the new drugs
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 but
also
 in the evolution of it. Rare and chronic diseases
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 benefited and many people live better today because of those drugs.
For instance
, we can cite the discovery of the industrialised insulin which was tested in rabbits in order to treat a severe chronic disease called diabetes.
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 tests have importance in the process of new drugs, with the advance of
techonology
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technology
,it is not necessary to be done in
this
 way anymore. The industries now have a wide range of resources that can be used in order to test and make their products safe
to
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 the population.
For example
, the use of data science and biomedicine. In conclusion, industries
such
 as
comestics
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cosmetics
 and healthcare are used to testing their new products in
animals
, but with the new technologies we have nowadays,
this
 is not justified.
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