Using Animals for Testing: Pros Versus Cons. By: Ian Murnaghan BSc (hons), MSc - Updated: 13 Sep 2019| *Discuss There are many pros and cons to the practice of animal testing.
Unfortunately, neither seem to fully tip the scale to a side that pleases everyone – including the general public, government and scientists. Animal Testing 101. Right now, millions of mice, rats, rabbits, primates, cats, dogs, and other animals are locked inside cold, barren cages in laboratories across the country.
They languish in pain, ache with loneliness, and long to roam free and use their minds. Instead, all they can do is sit and wait in fear of the next terrifying and painful procedure that will be performed on them. The stress, sterility and boredom causes some animals to develop neurotic behaviors such incessantly spinning in circles, rocking back and forth and even pulling out their own hair and biting their own skin.
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