Argumentative Outline
Thesis Statement:
Although animals are an important part of humans lives, they deserve rights from exploitation and suffering caused by humans for the purpose of testing, entertainment, and human consumption.
Animals deserve rights to be free of testing.
Animal testing is unethical.
Each year over 100 million animals are killed in the United States. They were killed for biology lessons, medical training, experimentation, and testing for chemical, drug, food, and cosmetics. https://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-experimentation/animals-used-experimentation-factsheets/animal-experiments-overview/ The U.S. allows animals to be burned, shocked, poisoned, isolated, starved, drowned, addicted to drugs, and brain-damaged. All experimentations are allowed and pain medicine is not required.
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Most, in which, endure great amounts of suffering caused by mistreatment, neglect, and abuse from factory workers. Animals raised for the purpose of food have the least amount of protection of any animal class in North America, and 95% of animals in research facilities are excluded from the Animal Welfare Act (AWA), which also gives just only minimal protection to the other 5%. People tend to claim they are animal lovers and are against animal cruelty but yet they buy products that include animals in some way, like food or accessories, which pays other people who abuse, exploit, and mistreat animals. Animal cruelty needs to be rid of completely with the help of animal rights, which will then teach the human race about actions that are morally wrong to do against animals. While animal rights do exist, they do not protect all animals in all cases and are sometimes overruled in court. Although animals are an important part of humans lives, they deserve rights from exploitation and suffering caused by humans for the purpose of testing, entertainment, and human
Not only are these animals being deprived of a normal life, they are having their freedom stolen from them. Some of these animals belong in the wild, like the monkeys. They weren't meant to be taken from the wild and put in cages and experimented on everyday. These animals have their children taken from them. And their well being. Nothing deserves this kind of torture and torment. It's not right in fact it's just cruel.
Every day, animals such as rabbits, chimpanzees, and mice take part of medical experimentation. “Chimpanzees share 99% of their DNA with humans, and mice are 98% genetically similar to humans. The United States and Gabon are the only two countries that allow experimentation on chimpanzees.” (The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada). What people don’t understand is that these animals contribute to medical discoveries regarding human health. Animals should be used for medical experimentation because they contribute to many cures and treatments that have saved lives, their genetic material appears to be similar to those of humans, they are similar to human beings in many ways, animals are the only organisms other than humans who we can experiment on, and the animals themselves benefit from the result of animal testing.
Aleesha Bender Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about the society of animal testing. Central Idea: I will discuss the history behind animal testing, the advantages of animal testing, and the disadvantages of animal testing. Introduction I. Attention: Bonzo is a 2 month old, Rhesus Macaque breed monkey. He was born in an experimental laboratory, and after just a few short days of being born he was ripped away from his mother’s arms into the hands of the experimenters who would now be his only family.
According to The Principles of Humane Experimental Technique, published by William Russell and Rex Burch in 1959, there are 3 important principles when it comes to animal testing and research. These principles: reduction, refinement, and replacement are typically known as the “3 R’s.” Reduction is meant to minimize the number of animal used in experimental procedures, refinement aims to limit the animal’s exposure to pain, and replacement is designed to use non-animal options whenever possible. While the problem with animal testing is constantly brought to people’s attention, the number of animals used for research is still increasing to this day. It is questionable whether these principles sufficiently reflect the development in our knowledge about animals and their emotional capabilities, the interest of these animals, or the harm that corresponds. It also raises serious questions about the success rate of the predicted outcomes of animal testing.
When evaluating animal’s rights, common questions that come up are: Do animals have instrumental value only? Do they have rights? Do we owe them any moral respect or concern at all? Is it morally permissible to experiment on animals, to raise and kill them for food, to cause them unnecessary pain and suffering? Do
Throughout the world, right under the human nose, millions of innocent and helpless, animals are being tortured and murdered. They are used for product testing as well as to put into products without consumer knowledge. These defenseless animals are deprived of respect and are victimized to an extent where it becomes unbearable to watch. There are many organizations that are trying to fight for animal rights. However, these organizations struggle with is because there is no legislation in the United States to combat animal testing. Even though it is not against United States regulations, animal testing should be outlawed because of its harmful and cruel effects.
Testing animals has been going on since 500 bc. Testing on animals is extremely wrong and not a good procedure to do. Animal testing is done on 26 million animals a year. Because so many animals are tested on each year, more money is wasted than the government researches dollars, many animals have died over the years. 87% of the studies have killed animals
Ninety two percent of experimental drugs that are safe and effective in animals fail in human trials because they are too dangerous. Animals are being put in situations like this with little to no help. An estimated 26 million animals are used every year in the United States for scientific and commercial testing. Animal tests are used for everything from drugs to makeup. The majority of medical treatments you have used were, at one point, tested on animals.
Animal experimentation has notably advanced the medical field since its beginnings nearly two thousand years ago. Modern surgeries, antibiotics, and vaccines have been discovered and put into effect to better the lives of humans worldwide and increase our life expectancy by thirty years. However, animal rights activists argue that tests are not accurate or reliable due to angularities. Morality continues to toy with the minds of the public. Religious organizations, like the Catholic Church, approve of animal testing when it is used to improve the means of health treatment, but the experiments must be as humane as possible. Along with this, the Catholic Church does not consider the cosmetic industry to be included in the realm of health treatment.
The AWA (Animal Welfare Act). The animal welfare act regulates the care and use of animals in labs. It is the ONLY law in the United States that regulates the treatment of animals in exhibition, research, transport, etc. The AWA was signed law in 1966. Labs that use mice, rats, reptiles, amphibians, and birds are exempted from the law. Animals that are protected under this law can still be tortured and hurt. People still go against the system. From 1966-2008 changes have been made to support. There are certain animals that are being bred for commercial sale. What is the use of having a law that protects the animals in our world but it really does not do anything. Humans as a whole should act more accordingly to what the law says. We need to make the
In today’s humanity, multitude amounts of animals are mistreated and eradicated during animal testing. Because testing on animals has become a law throughout the world, a lot of scientists have not realized the immortality that has been put upon the animals. Is it fair to test cosmetics and potential carcinogens on animals? During each year, millions of animals are tested on for biomedical research, chemical testing and training (Lee Bowman 2011). Testing cosmetics and chemicals on animals is catastrophic because it is abusive, detrimental and carcinogenic.
Imagine being a rabbit; a vertebrate and warm blooded species. Hopping around an open field and eating all greens. All of sudden, you were captured by an unknown human. You start to rattle around your cage figuring out how to escape. About “twenty-five million and 30 million” animals are exploited in experiments; “half are only used through education” (Donna 7).
Testing on animals for pharmaceutical products is happening all over the world with not much talk about it. “For drugs and biologics, the focus of animal testing is on the drug’s nature, chemistry, and effects (pharmacology) and on its potential damage to the body (toxicology)” (FDA, “ Why Are Animals . . .”). A lot of people read on the label time and time again “Product Tested on Animals” not knowing just how cruel some of these testing methods actually are. “Vaccine testing in particular consumes an estimated 2.5 million animals every year because vaccines are often produced by weakening, inactivating, or detoxifying a virulent microorganism or toxin. Each batch of the finished product is then tested on animals, causing them pain, suffering,
Throughout history, animals have repeatedly been used for testing for biomedical research, food, transportation, and as a companion. Animal experimentation has played a significant role in leading to new findings, human advantages, and many medical advances that have helped us in the past decades (i.e., several diseases). While most argue that animal testing is necessary, others say it should not be accepted and causes suffering to innocent animals because the balance between the rights of animals and their use in medical research is a delicate issue with huge societal assumptions. However, the pros outweigh the cons, as scientific experiments on animals are necessary to advance medical and biological knowledge. Animal testing is, and will be, a critical stage for the medical and biological research.
Using Animals for testing is wrong and should be banned. They should be entitled to the rights we have. Every day humans are using defenseless animals for cruel and most often useless tests. The animals cannot fight for themselves therefore we must. There should be stronger laws to protect them from laboratory experiments.