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1. The DNA of some animals is highly similar to humans -

many kinds of medicines for the animal are also suitable for humans. Such as chimpanzees it's DNA similarity between humans about 98.6% to 99%, also Bonobos DNA similarity between humans up to 99.6%. This proves that the accuracy of animal experiments is a pledge. If animal experiments is been banned, the laboratory just only can use hire volunteers to carry out experiments.

2. The price of animal is cheaper than volunteers -

The price of the animal is cheaper than volunteers, a volunteer who participated in the experiment was paid about 18,000 dollars above and it just not calculate the cost of the volunteers in the experiment. In this situation, the experiment cannot have many funds to continue experimenting.

3. Animal testing for safety testing of new drugs, agricultural and industrial chemicals, foods and food ingredients. -

Animals are quite similar to humans. Animal testing can determine the toxicity of things before selling or serve by humans. If the product doesn’t been tested and the product that produces surely will harm humans, it will cause humans to have a big epidemic, the scientist also has to take a longer time to research vaccines. In the period researching vaccine, many humans maybe will die.

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4. Animal testing always use small animals and animals that give birth fast -

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Scientist always use small animals and animals that can give birth fast for doing animal testing also experiment such as mice, fish, rabbits, hamster, guinea pigs. This animal use because they can give birth more than one and they give birth fast, one reason also to maintain the population of animals. If scientist use rare animals for experiment, then all animals in this world is facing extinction. Whereas in volunteers, some experiment is based on age and some experiment such as cancer has to take short time to research vaccine to save life, volunteers growth is too slow and how can easy get a volunteers? If they agree for become a volunteers, is their family members agree him?

1. Medical Advancement  Research done on animals can save countless human lives. It has already led to the discovery of insulin and hepatitis C; vaccines against polio and hepatitis B; and procedures such as open heart surgeries, coronary bypass surgery, and heart transplantation. Many animals, especially primates, share about 90% of their genetic make-ups with humans, so experimenting on such

animals can give scientists a good idea about possible reactions in the human body. Further, new medicines can help animals too, since breakthroughs in veterinary medicine have also occurred due to animal experimentation.

Introduction Yes to say that animals testing is for effectiveness of new medicinal products, and testing the human health or environmental safety of consumer and industry products. Animal testing help scientist for to ensure vaccine are safe such as vaccine of the rabies, Avian Influenza，tetanus, SARS, etc.it is need to test on genetically modified mice to ensure that the vaccine doesn’t make the virus worse. The vaccine that first made is not suitable to all people maybe it will make virus worse and let death rate become uncontrolled. The School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College, said, “The way you reduce that risk is first you show it does not occur in laboratory animals.” For my opinion, animal testing should not be banned

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Animal testing contributes to life-saving cures and treatments. -

The California Biomedical Research Association states that nearly every medical breakthrough in the last 100

years has resulted directly from research using animals. Animal research has contributed to major advances in treating conditions such as breast cancer, brain injury, childhood leukemia, cystic fibrosis, multiple sclerosis, tuberculosis, and more, and was instrumental in the development of pacemakers, cardiac valve substitutes, and anesthetics. 2)

Animal testing is crucial to ensure that vaccines are safe -

scientists racing to develop a vaccine for coronavirus during the 2020 global pandemic need to test on genetically modified mice to ensure that the vaccine doesn’t make the virus worse. Nikolai Petrovsky, professor in the College of Medicine and Public Health at Flinders University in Australia, said testing a coronavirus vaccine on animals is “absolutely essential” and skipping that step would be “fraught with difficulty and danger.”

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Researchers have to test extensively to prevent “vaccine enhancement,” a situation in which a vaccine actually makes the disease worse in some people.Peter Hotez, Dean for the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College, said, “The way you reduce that risk is first you show it does not occur in laboratory animals.”

2. There is no adequate alternative to testing on a living, whole-body system 除了在活的全身系统上进 行测试之外，没有其他适当的选择 -

A living system, human beings and animals are extremely complex. Studying cell cultures in a petri dish, while sometimes useful, does not provide the opportunity to study interrelated processes occurring in the central nervous system, endocrine system, and immune system. Evaluating a drug for side effects requires a circulatory system to carry the medicine to different organs.

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Conditions such as blindness and high blood pressure cannot be studied in tissue cultures. Even the most powerful supercomputers are unable to accurately simulate the workings of the human brain’s 100 billion interconnected nerve cells.

3. Animals are appropriate research subjects because they are similar to human beings in many

动物是合适的研究对象，因为它们在许多方面 与人类相似 ways. -

Chimpanzees share 99% of their DNA with humans, and mice are 98% genetically similar to humans. All mammals, including humans, are descended from common ancestors, and all have the same set of organs (heart, kidneys, lungs, etc.) that function in essentially the same way with the help of a bloodstream and central nervous system. Because animals and humans are so biologically similar, they are susceptible to many of the same conditions and illnesses, including heart disease, cancer, and diabetes.

4. Animals themselves benefit from the results of animal testing. 动物本身会从动物测试结果中受益 -

Vaccines tested on animals have saved millions of animals that would otherwise have died from rabies, distemper, feline leukemia, infectious hepatitis virus, tetanus, anthrax, and canine parvo virus. Treatments for animals developed using animal testing also include pacemakers for heart disease and remedies for glaucoma and hip dysplasia.

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Animal testing has been instrumental in saving endangered species from extinction, including the black-footed ferret, the California condor and the tamarins of Brazil.

5. Animals often make better research subjects than human beings because of their shorter life cycles.

由于动物的生命周期较短，因此它们通常比人类成为 更好的研究对象。

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Laboratory mice, for example, live for only two to three years, so researchers can study the effects of treatments or genetic manipulation over a whole lifespan, or across several generations, which would be infeasible using human subjects. Mice and rats are particularly well-suited to longterm cancer research, partly because of their short lifespans.

6. Some cosmetics and health care products must be tested on animals to ensure their safety. 某些化妆 品和保健品必须在动物身上进行测试以确保其安全性 -

The Food and Drug Administration endorses the use of animal tests on cosmetics to “assure the safety of a product or ingredient.” China requires that most cosmetics be tested on animals before they go on sale, so cosmetics companies must have their products tested on animals if they want distribution in one of the largest markets in the world. Manufacturers of products such as hand sanitizer and insect repellent, which can protect people from Zika, malaria, and West Nile Virus, test on animals to meet legal requirements for putting these products on the market.

Firstly, we think that animal testing should not be banned. Animal experiments have always been a controversial topic. Many people think that animals should have their power and should not sacrifice themselves for the sake of human beings. So, some cosmetics companies boasted that they did not use animal experiments, and some even organized demonstrations on the streets in order to resist animal experiments. By contrast, many companies around the world use animals to test their products, even some countries require products that have been tested in animals to be sold to customers. They believe that products that have been tested in animals are safer and more secure. In my opinion, animal

testing should not be banned because using animals for experiments is cheaper and there is no way to simulate human pregnancy.

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experimentation is not humane and will bring a lot of indelible pain to animals, let’s think in a different way. Because science and technology are not developed enough, animal experiments can bring many benefits to human beings, many other methods such as artificial organs or computer simulation cannot do it. We are equal to animals, but animal experiments can bring benefits not only to humans but also to animals. There will be a day when animal experiments will be banned, but at the present level of science and technology, it is still impossible to do so. as a result, we believe that animal testing should not be ban so that we can save more humans and also animals if we could get the cure for all the disease faster and more efficient. besides, animals also gain benifits when the experiment is on going and there are also laws that will protect the animals from being abuse.

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