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Animal Rights & Animal Experimentation

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages — Jacques Deval.

Animal rights are the rights that protect animals from abuse and other forms of cruelty. Some of the main areas of concern for animal rights include: using animals for medical and veterinary research and training, testing cosmetics on animals, killing animals for their fur or skin and using animals for entertainment purposes. Animal experimentation is a problem because animals are abused and executed through the acts of vivisection, thousands of drugs with side-effects to humans have not been predicted by animal testing, and the United States government pays billions of dollars a year to companies that perform these procedures.
Vivisection experiments fall into three general categories: animal testing, experimental research and dissection and practice surgery. Animal testing is the attempt to test the toxicity of drugs and other......

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