Pros/facts about animal testing

1. Pros/facts about animal testing Randy Barnes, Matthew Moiczek, and Ryan Evans

2. Pros: Animal Testing • Animal testing can lead to medical advances that may not have been discovered otherwise. • Animal testing does not just benefit humans it also benefits other animals as well. • Another reason for animal testing is that other testing methods aren’t advanced enough.

3. The argument about animal testing. • The argument is that animals need more respect to their life, but we put more value on the human life. • So how are we going to give their lives more respect?

4. Facts. • The advantage’s of animal testing have and always will out weigh the cost. • The reason scientist mainly use animal’s for testing is that animals are a lot like humans.

5. Pros. Cont • Animal testing also helps to ensure the safety of drugs and other things humans come in contact with.

6. Figures. • Rats, mice, and other rodents make up 85% of animals being used • Birds- 6% • Cats, dogs, horses, and primates are responsible for less than 1% • Fish- 8%

7. Types of animal testing. • Animal testing isn't all bad it can just consist of ringing a bell when it’s time to feed your dog. • He’ll get used to the bell at supper. • Then when you ring the bell and don’t feed him he’ll start slobbering.

8. Personal choice. • Your personal choice is your choice but give it a thought… • On whether or not you would like to be laying in the hospital with something wrong with you, they have just found a cure for it, and the doctors tell you it was found by using animal testing. • Would you refuse the treatment?

9. Sites. • http://www.aboutanimaltesting.co.uk/using-animals-testing-pros-versus-cons.html • http://www.soulcast.com/post/show/83190/Animal-Testing---the-pros-and-cons • http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/animals/using/facts.shtml • http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/animal-testing--the-facts-and-the-figures-554941.html