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Article: COLUMN: Animal testing cruel, unnecessary practice
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- December 2, 1999
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Lisa Bhungalia
University Wire
12-02-1999
(The Lantern) (U-WIRE) COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Being the last week of the quarter, I must dedicate my final column to my furry imprisoned friends, the animals of research testing. Many arguments have been proposed, declaring that animal testing is necessary for the progress of medicine. This argument I am not addressing. The argument I am concerned with considers those animal experiments which are frivolous to human health.
Every year tens of millions of animals are killed by vivisection, the practice of experimenting upon live animals. A good number of these experiments practicing vivisection, "often do not even purport to be linked to human health," ...