Persuasive Essay Against Animal Testing

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated” (Mahatma Gandhi). Scientists have been using animals for biomedical research for centuries. They provide a source to get information scientists can not get without harming humans. A lot of debate is spread about whether it is good or bad. Animal experimentation is a controversial topic because it is helpful to humans, but it is also cruel and inhumane.

Somewhere, in the United States, an animal is in terror. It cowers fearfully as scientists hold it down, and a doctor grips a massive, sharp needle next to its neck, ready to inject the animal with a lethal dose of a new, experimental drug. The animal is one of 26 million other creatures facing the same, painful, fate annually (The Hasting Center). Animal testing is the downfall of humanity, a practice of humans testing chemicals, drugs, and cosmetics on animals. Animal testing is an atrocity that is an unnecessary and dangerous ordeal to the subjects being tested on. The fact that it is cruel, is highly inaccurate, and that there are many other ways to achieve the results being pursued all

Imagine being locked up in a cage having chemicals rubbed, injected and force fed into you. Over 1,000,000,000 animals per year suffer rashes, cuts, burns, infections, loneliness and even death. This is due to animal cruelty or testing. It should be illegal to test on animals. You should be able to adopt an animal after the lab is thru with it.

For centuries humans have dedicated their time and research to animal experimentation. A large number of these animals are being utilized and taken from their homes involuntarily. They are abused, mishandled and harmed for our own benefit to create products such as cosmetic supplies, vaccines, and medication.

According to a 2017-18 National Pet Owners Survey conducted by the American Pet Products Association about 85 million families in the United States own a pet. In most homes pets are treated like a member of the family. But what if that family member was legally allowed to be burned, shocked, poisoned, starved, or forced to become addicted to drugs for research? Most people would be heartbroken and outraged! But that is what does happen to the millions of animals that are used in animal testing in the U.S. every year. Animal testing is wrong because it is cruel and inhumane to the animals and because animals make poor test subjects for testing on products or drugs that will be used for humans.

Just in the United States, “there are about 26 million different species, from dogs to birds, being used every year for medical and science related testing” (“Animals in Science / Research”). Throughout the process of testing, “monkeys are addicted to drugs, cats are deafened and have holes drilled into their skulls, sheep and pigs have their skin burned off, and rats have their spinal cords crushed” (“Animals in Medical Experiments”). As a result, animals face cruel conditions and have no way of fighting back. Although medical testings on animals may cure the deadliest diseases such as cancer and tuberculosis, the abuse and mistreatment these animals face while testing medicines should be deemed inhumane, and such practices should be banned in the United States.

Over one million animals are burned, immobilized, poisoned, and tortured in US labs every year (DoSomething.org). Animal testing is considered a very controversial topic that evolves to protesting rather large companies, and also leads to boycotting a specific brand that is known to test on animals. Animals should not be used for testing products because it is cruel to the animals, there are now new ways to test products, and animals are very different from humans so they are not accurate results.

The same wide range of emotions that humans have. More than 100 million animals continue to be locked alone inside metal/iron laboratory cages, burned in painful tests, force-fed toxic chemicals, subjected to crippling surgeries, infected with viruses, traumatized in psychological experiments and deprived of nearly everything that makes life worth living (feelings). Countless rats and mice are still being burned and poisoned in unreliable and archaic chemicals and personal-product tests, even though modern non-animal testing methods are more accurate, fast and economical. A big part of the problem is that the interests of these animals are unfairly written off because of their size, but—like humans—they wince when they’re hurt, giggle when they’re tickled, care deeply for their young and don’t hesitate to rescue their friends, and even strangers, when they’re in distress (feelings they have). When it comes down to it, animal testing is cruel and unusual punishment toward animals. With all the inventions we have, there has got to be a way to make something that can test toxicity or potential dangers of medicines. We also do not know how these medicines could affect us because some medicines affect us in different ways than animals

100 million is the estimated number of animals that are killed or harmed every year by humans in the name of research. These animals are bred for testing. Animals in labs live very stressful and unnatural lives in confinement. We are biologically similar to those animals tested. While some people believe that is fine to do animal testing the truth is that it's not okay to test on animals because of the painful protocols they put animals through, the daily lives they live can kill them, More than 100 million animals are killed every year. (article 2)

Animal Testing has been a huge controversy in the past years. Some believe that testing is necessary in reaching medical breakthroughs to find cures for a majority of diseases. Unfortunately, animal testing leads to the suffering and death of millions of animals, and that's why most are against it. Many wonder, “How similar are our genes to an animal?” Luckily, not all products used today are tested on animals. Which comes to show that there are ways to avoid using animals for biomedical research and research for everyday products.

Ninty two percent of drugs tested on animals immediately fail when first tried on humans. Each year 100 million animals are killed in labs for biology lessons, and experiments made off of curiosity. The animals get force feed, forced inhalation, low food and water, long periods of physical movement, burns and other wounds to study how they heal.

Hurt, injured, abused, starved, that is how animals are treated in testing new products, like Tylenol, and even the hair products you had to have. So is it enough to waste animal lives for that toothpaste, even your hair conditioner!? My reasons to oppose this heinous act are, animal abuse, alternative ways, and the results show no!

Animal testing is bad because it is cruel and inhumane, animals are different from humans, it’s wasteful animal testing, the welfare act is being violated, and it’s a waste of government money. Why are we allowing animals to be tested on if it’s cruel, wasteful, and is irrelevant? What purpose if there for animal testing? There are other ways to experiment tests meant for humans, according (Save the Animals: Stop Animal Testing), a well-known cosmetics and bath-product company based in London, develop their products that "use natural ingredients, like bananas and Basil nut oil, that are safe to humans, that are established as healthy. It’s a better way to create products than

Animal testing should not be used in cosmetic industries as a source of experimentation because it is unethical and inefficient. It is a cruel way of trying to find results that are not even always trustworthy. Everyone has a different reaction to different chemicals so why even bother animals for testing? Also different species can respond differently when exposed to the same chemical so animal testing can be inefficient. The results from animal tests can be quite variable and difficult to interpret therefore it may not be applicable to human beings. Thus, consumer safety still cannot be guaranteed even after these gruesome tests which are totally unethical. It is also unethical to torture and end the lives of these animals each year for our own luxury. Everyday cosmetic industries are using defenseless animals very cruelly just to carry out some most often useless tests. Instead they should use other alternatives which has been proved to yield better and accurate results than tests involving animals.

“Mice are mice, and people are people. If we look at the mouse to model every aspect of disease for man, and to model cures, we are just wasting our time” - Dr. Clif Barry. Testing on animals can be dangerous for the animal that is being tested on. The amount of money that is sent to laboratories in the U.S.A. is outrageously high. Animal testing is not only terrible, but is unreliable more than half the time. Animal testing should not continue to be legal.