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Filmed by PETA, Covance primate-testing lab, Vienna, Virginia, 2004-5. [1] Non-human primates make up 0.3% of research animals, with 50,000 being used each year in the United States, according to its Dept of Agriculture, and 10,000 in the European Union, |
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There are 10 summaries on Animal testing.
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 Animal Experimentation Summary
49,277 words, approx. 164 pages
 “Experiments are performed on animals that inflict severe pain without the remotest prospect of significant benefits for humans or any other animals.” —Peter Singer “Virtually every medical innovation of the last... summary from source:
 Animal Experimentation Summary
30,905 words, approx. 103 pages
For the past three decades, there has been widespread debate over the use of animals in medical science and product testing. Heartrending images of caged monkeys awaiting vivisection in government laboratories and rabbits with skin lesions where... summary from source:
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 Animal Rights Summary
20,170 words, approx. 67 pages
IN 1987 JENNIFER Graham's high school classmates dubbed her the "frog girl." People throughout the United States soon knew Graham, a fifteen-year-old tenth grader at Victor Valley High School in California, by the same name. Graham made headlines across... summary from source:
 Animal Rights Summary
2,359 words, approx. 8 pages
It is only recently, and in response to their perceived mistreatment by humans, especially in processes of industrial agricultural production and scientific research, that rights have been ascribed to animals. The concept remains contentious,... summary from source:
 Animal Rights Summary
2,048 words, approx. 7 pages
The opinions regarding animals and their rights greatly vary. To some, animals have no rights and are merely a form of property that exists only to fulfill human needs. To others, they are creatures that can be used or owned by people, but which also... summary from source:
Animal Experimentation Summary
1,715 words, approx. 6 pages
The use of animals in medical and other research has been a staple of modern scientific progress. In the early twenty-first century, biomedical research in the United States involves the use of several million animal subjects (mostly rodents) each... summary from source:
Animal Testing Summary
1,118 words, approx. 4 pages
 In order to more completely understand biology, researchers sometimes conduct experiments on animals. Animal experimentation has a lengthy and productive history in biological research, especially in biomedicine. For example, the organ transplant... summary from source:
 Animal Rights Summary
1,099 words, approx. 4 pages
Recent concern about the way humans treat animals has spawned a powerful social and political movement driven by the conviction that humans and certain animals are similar in morally significant ways, and that these similarities oblige humans to... summary from source:
 Animal testing Summary
10,426 words, approx. 35 pages
Animal testing or animal research refers to the use of non-human animals in experiments. It is estimated that 50 to 100 million vertebrate animals worldwide[4][5][6] — from zebrafish to non-human primates — are used annually and either... 
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