Animals vs Alternatives
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Many people say that dogs are a mans best friend. Stories pop up from all over the world about dogs and other pets willingly giving their lives for their human companions. In reality any animal can be a best friend, especially when that best friend saves thousands lives through animal experimentation. Some people say that those animals didn't have to give their life. In her article, Why We Don't Need Animal Experimentation, Ms. Peggy Carlson said, "Nearly everything that medicine has learned about what substances cause human cancer and birth defects has come from human studies." Science has discovered many different alternatives to animal experimentation. A few of the alternatives are epidemiology, human subjects, computer cell models, and autopsies. Taking a look at some of these alternatives in depth it is easy to see where humans will not benefit from them as much as they would animal experiments.
Epidemiology is one faltering alternative...