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Animal testing Intro Animal testing should be discouraged because of animal rights, it has not been perfected, and it’s expensive. Animal testing is cruel and unfair punishment to innocent animals. “Some government mandated tests kill more than 2,000 animals every time they are conducted. And not a single one of these animal tests has ever been formally proven to be relevant to or able accurately predict human health effects” (U.S Government Testing Programs). People do animal testing for many different reasons, but the main reason is for money and potential fame. People who do animal testing are scientist and universities. “The pharmaceutical industry and the national industries of health spend billions of dollars annually on medical research techniques that have been rendered obsolete by technology advances” (Overton1). Animal testing is used to try to find cures and help perfect cosmetic products. Animal testing first started in the mid 1600’s, it was a first not very popular but later caught on with the public. “Animal experimentation is on of the most controversial issues that confront the animal right movement” (Animal Experimentation). Animal testing is being done at major universities, scientist labs, and in high school class rooms. There are two types of animal testing, cosmetic and animal research testing. Some scientists do animal experimentation because they believe that they can find cures for diseases and help more perfect their cosmetic products. Scientist use animals to do testing because there genetic makeup is similar to humans. Scientist “alters an animal’s gene by finding and transferring the segment of DNA that codes for the disease from another organism. They then are injected into a fertilized egg so that they become part of the animal’s genome” (Animal Research and Testing).Cons- Introduction