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Argumentative Essay On Animal Testing

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Kayla Hopkins
Ms. Gonzales
English 801A
6 December 2017
Animal Experimentation Animal experimentation is very cruel and inhumane and must be stopped, but some people argue that it is a better method then testing on humans. More than 100 million animals are killed each year in laboratories for biology lessons, and chemical, drug, food, and cosmetics testing. Of the people that think it’s bad to test on animals, they believe that some substances may never be used for anything useful. Of the people that think it’s okay to test on animals, they believe that it contributes to many cures and treatments that save many human lives. To start off, people that think it’s bad to test on animals believe that some substances may never be used therefore, they believe that animals are just dieing in vain because no direct benefit occurred. It’s bad because these animals are receiving tests for substances for human use that will never actually see public consumption and use. Alka Chandna writer from The Korea Times says that, “The U.S. Food and Drug Administration reports that nine out of 10 drugs that test as safe and effective in animals are found to be either unsafe or ineffective in humans. Drugs that effectively treat artificially induced cancers in mice and strokes in monkeys, for example, don't work in humans. Part of the reason for this failure is that all animals are different ― genetically, anatomically, metabolically and so on ― and results obtained from tests on other animals simply can't be reliably applied to us.” We as people can never compare ourselves to animals or any living thing because we aren’t genetically the same and therefore it puts us humans at risk because there could be something wrong with the medicines and prescriptions and cause problems for us in our bodies. It sucks for the animals that have to go through all this because some scientists in the laboratories doing research do believe that we are the same as animals and some tests might actually work. But unfortunately they don’t always and therefore, animals die because of these

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