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What does Animal Testing do to animals?

I am doing a report on it and i need some info. *What it does to animals *Pics *Products that are animal tested *anything tnx

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1. What grade? Some of this stuff is hard to see.
2. So go do your homework. Look under "vivisection" or "PETA."
3. Animal Testing is a polite term for Torture. Cosmetics are tested on rabbits, for example. In order to make sure a product is safe, chemicals can be rubbed into the rabbit's eyes to see if it causes infection or blindness. Lab Rats. We've all heard that term but have no idea what actually goes on in the lab. Dogs are used labs as well, which disturbs some individuals more than what happens to rats. Monkeys have their heads shaved and their skulls opened in order to use probes on their brains, to see how the limbs react to certain stimuli. Pigs are deliberately burned to test certain treatments for human burn victims. Well, enough. Not a topic I care to think about. Many products are animal tested. Most of us shop around, trying to find the ones that aren't. Swiss Herbal supplements and Clinique cosmetics, to name just two. Good luck with your report.
4. Go to Peta they probly have some good info. Sorry but i want write about it without crying or throwing up. The lady that wrote about it made me cry. :( STOP ANIMAL TESTING!!!!!!!!!!! :(
5. I hate to burst anybodies bubble here but ALL products used on humans ARE or HAVE BEEN tested on animals at some point in their development.......because it is FDA ( and most civilized countries ) regulation. It is impossible to purchase a product to apply to humans that has NOT been tested on animals at some point. If you wish to reduce animal testing then buy products that have already been tested and approved, the testing is over and done and no NEW testing is required. Animal testing in the health industry will continue forever or until humans quit getting sick and there is not a damn thing anyone can do about it. No one in their right mind would suggest testing a new chemical drug to cure disease on a 3 year old child nor could they stand idly by and watch that child suffer and/or die. It's called REALITY....get used to it.
6. visit peta's website
7. Animal testing saves ANIMALS' LIVES, as well as human lives- at least, when it is done in a legitimate manner. The groups which PETA wants to ban are the people and organizations which do things like spray hairspray into a rabbit's eyes to see what the effects are going to be on the animal. That is NOT the kind of animal testing and research I am thinking of or talking about. What I am referring to is research like that which led to the discovery of insulin, which, as you know, has probably saved as many as a BILLION lives worldwide, including the life of PETA's current president, Newkirk. THAT kind of research is something we need more, not less, of. Insulin was discovered by Drs. Banting and Best, who used dogs as their animal model. Dogs get diabetes too, as do cats, and the researchers' choice made perfect sense at the time. Dr. Banting, the senior researcher, named the new hormone insulin because of where it is produced in the body- in the Islets of Langerhans in the pancreas. His and his partner's discovery won them both a Nobel Prize in medicine, and he was later knighted. But the biggest gain came in the form of millions of lives which were saved worldwide, and from diabetes going from being a killer ( most patients who developed it prior to the discovery of insulin usually died of kidney failure or infections and gangrene) to being a serious but manageable condition. These two researchers did their work in the 1920's at the University of Toronto in Canada, long before PETA was ever founded or came into being. To say that they were wrong to use dogs in their research, when so many millions of lives have been saved, is to do them and all of medicine and science an insult. To put this another way, the fact of the matter is that we NEED our animal friends- life on Earth would be impossible without them. There are many, many other medicines which have been developed and tested on animals, without the cruelty that PETA is so famous for depicting. Some of the most important of these include vaccines ( including the flu shots people get each winter) and drugs for cancer and heart disease. Ulcer drugs like Tagamet were also discovered through animal research- and the animals themselves have benefitted from this. ( Incidentally, Tagamet's discovery also led to another Nobel Prize for the researchers who did the work on it.) Even ordinary over the counter medications like aspirin have been tested on animals with great benefits to both them and to people. Animal research isn't ALL bad. It doesn't always result in animals dying horrible deaths- very often, the animals actually go on to lead healthy lives. If you want to find out more about how animal research actually benefits animals, try going to the websites of some of the animal welfare organizations, such as the Morris Animal Foundation. Good luck.