... fact that we, humans, have the world as it is today gives us some credit. The new life-saving technology, mass communication abilities and anti-dotes to once incurable diseases allows us to live the fast track cosmopolitan lifestyle that we lead...however, the fact that we have these luxuries has a lot to do with animal testing. How did we find these cures to fatal diseases? Yes, through testing the medicines on innocent animals. Another argument for vivisection is that only approximately 5% of medical research is done on animals, if we look at these figures more closely we realise that 5% is a staggering figure. In 1998 in the UK a staggering 2,659,662 experiments were conducted on 2,593,587 animals. Since 1990 the number of experiments on genetically manipulated animals in Britain has risen by 827%, making this the most rapidly expanding area of animal experimentation in the UK. These horrific figures ...

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