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INTRO
DEFINITION 1
AGD: According to the Humane Soc iety, 50% of animals used in
testing die within 3 weeks of the initia l test. Between testing on
products, medicine, and for educatio nal purposes, 25 million of
animals live in small laboratory cages a nd are deliberately
sickened over the course of weeks, months, or even years--and
then killed. Thesis: We're goi ng to discuss the major problems
regarding animal cruelity. Road M ap: Im going to talk to you today
about how prevalent animal cruelty is in America, what is being
done about, and how we can take a ctions to stop it.
TERM 2
TOPIC 1: EXPERIMENTS/FACTS
DEFINITION 2
Companies that test on animals- Johnson&Joh nson: Includes products like Acuvue
contacts, Aveeno, Clean & Clear, Listerene, Neutrogena-- Proctor and Gamble: r.
Clean, Old Spice, Herbal Essences, Frebreez e, Downy Animals in the classr oom:
Each year in the U.S., an estimated 20 millio n animalsincluding mice, rats, cats,
worms, frogs, rabbits, pigs, dogs, sheep, an d fishare used in cruel, outdated
teaching exercises. Roughly half of them are killed and used for dissection
Medical testing-Studies in Journal of the Ame rican Medical Association and the
British Medical Journal have repeatedly conclu ded that because of the
fundamental biological differences among sp ecies, animal tests do not reliably
predict outcomes in humans. These same studies have also concluded that the
overwhelming majority of animal experimen ts fail to lead to medical advances
that improve the health of humans and, in f act, are often dangerously
misleading.
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TOPIC 1 CONTINUED
DEFINITION 3
o The FDA itself estimated in 2006 th at 92 percent of drugs that
pass animal testing fail in human clinic al trials. o March 2009-HSUS
undercover investigator speak volum es. This, coupled with hours
of dreary boredom, is the life that mo re than 1,000 chimpanzees in
US laboratories are forced to endures ome for over 50 year
Charities o American Cancer Society, March of Dimes, American
Heart Association, and other charitie s put a portion of their money
raised to experimentation on animals
TERM 4
TOPIC 2: GOVERNMENT INVOLVMENT
DEFINITION 4
Animal Welfare Act requires that minimum standards of care and treatment be
provided for certain animals bred for commer cial sale, used in research,
transported commercially, or exhibited to the public. -The Animal Welfare Act
does not cover farm animals used in cloning or agricultural research.Dolly, the
first cloned farm animal, born in 1996, lived for a mere 6 years fraught with
serious health problems. She was the only successful birth out of 277 attempts
involving 13 surrogate mothers. cloned anim al products are now on store
shelveso Approximately 95% of the animals used for research aren't afforded
even the minimal protections of the Animal Welfare Act. o PETA members
flooded Congress with more than 50,000 le tters demanding changes to the EPA's
Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program, whic h was designed to kill tens of
thousands of animals, and our scientists are hard at work trying to change this
program. o Tax money going to programs
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TOPIC 2 CONTINUED
DEFINITION 5
Lawsuits o PETA fought the Center for S cience in the Public
Interest's request to the Food and Dr ug Administration (FDA) that
a natural plant-based sweetener be tested on animalsand won. o
Brands are not completely honest wi th their advertisements
Uncaged Campaign: Herbal Essence s got caught falsely
advertising that they dont test on an imals on their packaging -- it's
an International Company can do the tests outside of the United
States
