To what extent is the use of animals acceptable in scientific research
Animal testing for scientific research is controversial. On one side, animal rights activists argue that it is cruel and inhuman to use defenseles animals to test drugs and cosmetics. On the other side, scientists point out that animal testing is the only way to discover if a drug or a cosmetic is safe for us. But to what extent is the use of animals acceptable in scientific research?
Animals should be allowed to live freely and no one should take that away from them.
Many people fight every day against animal testing. They argue that animals are mistreated: force-fed, deprived of food and water or injured in several ways. In 2016 the United States Department of Agriculture published a study revealing that 820’812 animals suffered pain during testing and weren't given anesthesia. They included primates, cats, dogs, rabbits, pigs, hamsters.
An alternative to animal testing could be in vitro testing, which consists in analyzing cells through glass equipment. It could be even more effective than animal testing, since you could directly analyze human cells. In addition, in vitro experiments would be less expensive.
Animals and humans may have different reactions to the same chemical.
According to Understanding Animal Research, a not-for-profit organization in the UK, 94 % of the drugs that were successful through animal testing failed in human clinical trials. A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) in 2013, found that 150 human tests for drugs supposed to reduce inflammation all failed although they were successful in animal tests.
On the other hand, thanks to animal testing, new drugs have been developed against important diseases, such as malaria, smallpox, polio and tuberculosis. Animal testing also brought an important progress in the research against breast cancer and brain injuries.
To protect animals, laws have been put in place. The Animal Welfare Act regulates animal research since 1966 in the United States. They organize special and regular inspections in research laboratories by veterinarians.
Animal research is one of the rare ways to find out if a drug is safe or not. Furthermore, animals have a very similar genetic structure to humans.
Finally, animals can sometimes even benefit from testing. If vaccines hadn’t been tested on animals, millions of them would have died from distemper, tetanus, anthrax and many more terrible viruses.
In conclusion, animal testing has to be used only if there is no other solution left. Animals are living beings and not commodities.
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 7.0 286% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 1.00243902439 898% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 15.0 6.8 221% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 8.0 3.15609756098 253% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 17.0 5.60731707317 303% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 57.0 33.7804878049 169% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 3.97073170732 151% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2191.0 965.302439024 227% => Less number of characters wanted.
No of words: 408.0 196.424390244 208% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.37009803922 4.92477711251 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49433085973 3.73543355544 120% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80845348956 2.65546596893 106% => OK
Unique words: 230.0 106.607317073 216% => Less unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.563725490196 0.547539520022 103% => OK
syllable_count: 678.6 283.868780488 239% => syllable counts are too long.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.45097560976 117% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
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Article: 4.0 4.33902439024 92% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.07073170732 187% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.482926829268 207% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 10.0 3.36585365854 297% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
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Sentence length: 15.0 22.4926829268 67% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
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What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
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Sentence topic coherence: 0.118337636017 0.103423049105 114% => OK
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Essay readability:
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flesch_reading_ease: 47.79 61.2550243902 78% => OK
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flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.3012195122 100% => OK
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gunning_fog: 8.0 10.9970731707 73% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.0658536585 72% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum four paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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