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Animals in Medical Testing The use of animals in research has been key in the development of drugs and treatments, for human and animal illnesses. Vivisection, which is the practice of experimenting on animals, was first utilized by the ancient Greeks who cut the throat of a pig in order to understand swallowing. To study the beating heart, they cut into a live pigs chest (altweb.htm). These ancient experiments had no intention of making …

…and well being of people and animals. As much as I and everyone else would like to see alternatives to animals in experimentation, the technology is just not available at the moment. I still think it is sad that animals suffer and die for our own sake, but the only actual alternative is to test on humans which is more sad. These are some of the sacrifices we must make if we want to improve.