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CON EVIDENCE – WAVE 1A NIMAL TESTING TOPIC

Con Evidence

Resolved: Animal testing for scientic andcommercial purposes should be banned

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Medical Advances

Animal testing is invaluable. The Pro team would sentence millions of people to

death instantly

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Frankie Trull, science advocate and president of the Foundation for iomedical

!esearch "F!#, says, $An immediate end to animal research in the %.&. would be a

death sentence for millions of people around the world,$ "-e tol7 Ne!"!ee#. 8'f you(veever taken antibiotics, had a vaccine, had chemotherapy, an )!', a blood transfusion,

dialysis, an organ transplant, bypass surgery or *oint replacement, you have been the

beneficiary of research that started with lab animals.$

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Medical Advances

1e are not advocating needless violence, testing should only be done when necessary

to solve diseases

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Antibiotics, insulin, vaccines for polio and cervical cancer, organ transplantation, 3'4

treatments, heart5bypass surgery 5 it reads like an A to 6 of medical progress. ut these

ma*or advances have something in common7 they were all developed and tested using

animals.

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Medical Advances

2uring brain tumors that kill :,/// people a year in the %.&. wouldn;t have been

possible without animal testing

Frankie Trull, president of the Foundation for iomedical !esearch. “Ani2al Te"tingan7 It" Gi9t" To ;2an". April

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Medical Advances

Animal testing is necessary for medical advancements


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Medical Advances

Primates have lots of similarities that are beneficial for medical testing and

advances


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Medical Advances

Animal testing is key to solving diseases and in*uries that ruin or end people;s lives


In 9at+ animal research has contributed to C/ per cent of 8obel pri+es for physiology ormedicine. 1ithout it, we would 5 medically speaking 5 be stuck in the =ark Ages.'t is not only drugs and vaccines. ;"t la"t !ee#+ researchers in Seattle anno;ne7 t-at t-ey-a7 used an electronic brain implant to enable a monkey to move its paralysed limbs, adiscovery with the potential to allow severely disabled people to regain movement.

' challenge anyone who has followed the tragic case of =aniel James, who committed

suicide after becoming paralysed in a rugby accident, to try to stop research in the %Don spinal in*uries, some of which involves rats.

Far from being ashamed of this kind of research, we should be proud of our scientists,

whose work offers hope to those suffering from incurable disorders.


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Medical Advances

Animal testing is still finding cures and making medical advances. 't is ://

necessary for research.

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%elps Animals

:G< of the worlds chimpan+ees and gorillas have been wiped out by Ebola.

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%elps Animals

4accines save animal lives and human lives. Ebola has killed :G< of gorilla and

chimpan+ees and spreads to humans through contact with infected animals.

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'n the last two decades, Ebola has been responsible for several catastrophic great ape

population declines+ !3ite" &ia G-ai o9 t-e ane Goo7all In"tit;te o9 Cana7a. A" ane=a2le+ G-ai ite" an Ivo3y Coa"t -i2anHee o22;nity 3e7;e7 abon likely led to the three secondary epidemics in humansK

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)tilitarianism

=eontology locks us into a deadlock when value conflict, the only way to resolve

them is utilitarianism

lngmar Person, :C, L;n7 'nive3"ity. T-3ee Met-o7" o9 Et-i"/ a 7e

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)tilitarianism

)oral truth does not e-ist, theorists are only blindly following cultural bias

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universal principles that we all ought to follow when interacting with our fellows. Anat;3ali"t 9ollo!ing in t-e t3a7ition o9 Davi7 ;2e 7enie" t-at ";- 3inile" e=i"t. e "ee"-i2"el9 a" a "ienti"t e=lo3ing t-e

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Dela8

Animal testing is the best of man8 bad options9 An end ouldbe great; but is not possible no9


Those who ob*ect are entitled to refuse treatments that have been developed through

animal tests 5 even if that means re*ecting virtually every medical treatment that e-ists.%;t t-ey 7onJt -ave t-e 3ig-t to 9o3e t-at oinion on t-e 2ao3ity+ !-o e=et an7 yea3n 9o3ne! an7

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Ebola

Ebola has killed over :/,/// people in the recent outbreak in west Africa

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Ebola

Ebola is one of the worst deaths, causing people own immune systems to attack their

body as they slowly bleed to death

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A*: Cruel and inhumane

Protections and regulations already e-ist to limit animal testing as much as possible.

FranNoise arrO5&inoussi and avier )ontagutelli. $3anoi"e %a334Sino;""i lea7" t-e&eg;lation o9 &et3ovi3al In9etion" Divi"ion at t-e In"tit;t Pa"te;3 in Pa3i"+ an7 !a"a!a37e7 t-e Noreduced to the lowest possible level, is outweighed by significant progress in terms of

knowledge on human or animal health. !egulation imposes that ethics committees

include members concerned by animal protection and not involved in animal research. In3e"on"e to t-e ECI+ the European 2ommission has underlined, in a statement issued on <June /:0 RHS, that animal e-perimentation remains important for improving human and

animal health. At the same time, it is committed to promoting the development and

validation of non5animal5based approaches, and to enforcing the application of the

rules by all players, including the research community. E;3oe -a" t-e3e9o3e i2le2ente7one o9 t-e "t3ite"t 3eg;lato3y 93a2e!o3#" 9o3 t-e 3otetion o9 ani2al" ;"e7 in 3e"ea3-.


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A*: Rights

)oral rights are inviolate, you either have a right, or you don;t regardless of where

you are or what time you are in. 'f animals have rights then there is no time when

humans have not been blatantly violating those rights.

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A*: Rights

There is no right or wrong without humans. 1e cannot call a lion hunting an

antelope immoral because morality does not apply to non5rational sub*ects.


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A*: Rights

To truly by rational and respect the moral views of others you must allow each

person to make their own determination about the morality of animal testing


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A*: Rights

2laiming that animals belong to the same group as humans and thus have rights is a

slippery slope argument and is not logically valid


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A*: Rights

The gulf between humans and animals is much larger than the similarities. The

burden of proof should be on the Pro team to prove that animals should receive

moral consideration.


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A*: &E*A

PETA doesn;t care about animals, they kill the B of the animals they receive

8athan J. 1inograd, the director of the national 8o Dill Advocacy 2enter an7 t-ea;t-o3 o9 9ive

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A*: &E*A

PETA advocates causing e-treme fear and death when a clearly better alternative

e-ists


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A*: &E*A

PETA only wants to kill animals.


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A*: Alternatives

2omputations advancements can;t replace animal testing.

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A*: Alternatives

Animal testing has problems, but there are no alternatives

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A*: )tilitarianism

%tilitarianism imposes ridiculous obligations like murder for the greater good


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A*: )tilitarianism

%tilitarianism has several irreconcilable problems that make it a bad moral

standard


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A*: )tilitarianism

'ncluding animals in utilitarian calculations may suggest human e-tinction


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