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Animals are living, breathing, and moving organisms just like humans. They have brains, feelings, and even families. So why is it that we use them for our testing? Hair-care products, make-up, and many other products than men and women use in their everyday lives are tested on animals, such as rats or mice. Animal testing is morally wrong and should be illegal. After reading Tom Regan’s essay, “The Case for Animal Rights,” Carl Cohen’s essay, “The Case for the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research,” and Jacqueline Tresl’s essay, “The Broken Window: Laying Down the Law for Animals,” the realization occurs that even testing on animals to find cures is wrong. Using animals as test subjects is both morally and ethically unsound. Regan states is his essay, “there are, I know, people who profess to believe in animals rights but do not avow these goals. Factory farming, they say, is wrong – it violates animals’ right – but traditional animal agriculture is all right. Toxicity tests of cosmetics on animals violates their rights, but important medical research – cancer research, for example does not.” I was that type of person. Why, as humans, do we think that we have the right to infect these animals with diseases and give them hundreds of different drugs trying to cure it? The same goes for cosmetic researching. How has the human race come to thing that it is far more superior than any other animal on earth. I used to think that animal testing for medical reasons was okay. That it was all right to use animals as test subjects if it would better the quality of life for humans. What about the quality of life for the animals? Now all I can think of, if animal testing betters the quality of human life, why aren’t we testing humans to better the quality of the animal’s lives?
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