Animal Experimenting
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Nicole Katalbas Mr. Troy Burns English 101 7 Feb. 2007 Curiosity Killed the Cat The British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) estimates that 100 million animals are experimented on around the world annually (Graft et al 1). Vivisection is defined as the act or practice of performing experiments on living animals. For hundreds of years, dating back to the time of the Romans, researchers practiced vivisection. In the earlier years of vivisection, medical professors would cut open animals in demonstrations for students attending medical colleges. It was a familiar practice for a scientist to cut into an animal without the use of anesthetic ("History"). The animal would lie there on the dissection table, howling and helpless as the doctor opened up parts of its body for his students to examine and on which to take observations. Today, many different companies that produce an extensive range of products, from pharmaceuticals to...


