Although animal testing has provided many benefits in creating human products and medications, it is morally wrong to experiment on innocent animals for human benefit. Attention to animal use in scientific research has risen dramatically over the last century. English utilitarian philosopher, Jeremy Bentham, brought attention to the ethical and scientific reasons as to why testing on animals is wrong as quoted in the following passage:
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Some of these diseases include polio and diabetes. However, cures and treatments for these diseases have come at a cost of hundreds of animal lives. According to Michael Bliss, the author of The Discovery of Insulin, two medical students from the University of Toronto used dogs to discover the correlation between insulin and diabetes. They would remove the pancreas of many dogs and inject its hormones into diabetic dogs. They found this treatment to be successful. However, the treated dogs would be sacrificed for another experiment and the other dogs died within a week of having their pancreas removed. (Bliss