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Darren Tinklin 11R English Coursework Animal Experiments Many animals are poisoned, scalded, burned and even turned into drug addicts or alcoholics. They are given diseases such as cancer or arthritis and they are crippled, blinded starved and even brain damaged all for us. Some of the experiments done are useless and teach us absolutely nothing. What goes on? Animal experimentation is also known as vivisection, which the dictionary defines as 'Painful treatment of living animals for the purpose of scientific research.' The government defines an animal experiment as a 'procedure' which is 'likely to cause pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm.' Sometimes anaesthetic or painkillers are given, but often only for a small part of the experiment because researchers don't want the results to be affected by painkilling drugs. I don't think this is acceptable because it puts animals through a large amount of pain sometimes even for no reason. Most of the experiments...

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