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Good Afternoon ladies and gentlemen my name is (_________) and me and my group are here to tell you not only that animal experimentation is bad, but why so.

First of all Animals have the right to be treated as beings of value in themselves, not as the means to human ends; this principle must be applies in order to guarantee the end of cruelty to animals. The application of this principle means that animals should never be experimented upon whatever the potential gain for humanity. To infect monkeys with the AIDS virus or to expose rodents to toxic chemicals and radiation is simply not acceptable, whatever the supposed benefits.

Secondly surprisingly few breakthroughs have been made as a result of animal experimentation - its advocates have overstated its achievements greatly. There has been a catalogue of errors and failures in animal testing, which its advocates simply forget; did you know as many as half the drugs that have been approved in the US and the UK after animal......

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