Persuasive Essay: Animal Testing In The United States

These animals used in tests are usually bred in captivity. They can’t be sent into the wild or into homes as they would not be able to cope or survive. Some of these animals are euthanized using a gas that is inhaled and results in rapid death.

They are forced to inhale chemicals, deprived of food and water, burned, gassed, poisoned, force fed, deliberately injured, covered with makeup that irritates their skin and killed. All these different experiments cause the animals to experience dreadful pain and it immensely decreases their quality of life.

“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.

Have you ever been watching your favorite television show, and all of the sudden a failed drug commercial comes on? An example of this could be Vioxx. How would you like to know that this was tested on animals? If you are unaware Vioxx caused over 100,000 people to suffer severe heart attacks. Yet Vioxx was extremely successful in the animal test trials. Doesn’t that show you how different us animals and humans are, and how pointless this dangerous routine is? Now how do you feel to know that animals are also being killed everyday because of animal testing? In one test run on average of the LD50 test, more than 50 percent of the animals die. The LD50 test is a test that forced 60-200 animals to do this. How would you feel if a rabbit, like a pet you own, was getting force fed this? Nowadays scientist limited this test to 6-10 animals, but that’s just this test. I still believe no animal, should die this way whether it’s cosmetic, medical, or everyday chemicals like paint. (Added the ways I meant.)

Furthermore, animals that are used the most in these experiments range from rabbits, mice, guinea pigs, and rats. These poor warm-blooded creatures are tortured and are manipulated such as testing for new drugs and being infected with diseases, injected with poison to measure the toxicity, chemicals that irritate and burn skin. Many animals don’t survive the prolonged exposure to these tests. With many dying before the experiments are ever over. Animals that do survive these harsh tests are ironically killed at the of the research.

Animal testing is a rampant controversial issue in today’s society. Safety tests are conducted with a massive range of chemicals, including: new drugs, vaccines, cosmetics, household cleaners, and packing materials. Approximately 4 million animals have been/will be used in safety tests. Tom Regan, a philosophy professor at North Carolina State University states: “Animals have a basic moral right to respectful treatment… This inherent value is not respected when animals are reduced to being mere tools in a scientific experiment.” Animals that are used in these safety tests are subjected to tests that are often painful or cause permanent damage or death, and they never have the option of participating or not. There are plenty of reasons for understanding

Imagine you are a rat. You are pulled out of your families cage and onto a cold metal table held there firmly by a strong white glove. He pulls out a vial and its has this weird looking liquid inside. You hear the sound of plastic being ripped off of something he holds whatever it is above the vial. Slowly he extracts some of the liquid from the bottle. He pulls you closer to the strange thing that has the liquid in it. You try to escape but quickly he jabs a the needle into your back you squeal in pain. The guy with the white gloves sets you pack in your cage with this smirk on his face. A couple days go by and you are terribly sick. The next day you fall asleep, your family tries to care for you. But its no use you end up dying. That’s what happens to animals that are being tested and some of the tests fail, it’s not the only way for a cure, and it is costly. Animals should not be tested on!

The subject to animals used in experiments are exposed to harsh cruelty such as, force feeding, forced inhalation, distraught, long periods of physical restraint, burns and other lesions to study the remedial process, the infliction of pain to study its effects and remedies, and killing by carbon dioxide suffocation, neck-breaking, beheading, and animals are agonized with pain during experiments with no anesthesia for relief (Ben, 2010).

What is animal testing, it is any scientific experiment or test in which a live animal is forced to undergo something that is likely to cause them pain, suffering, distress, or lasting harm. About 26 million animals are used every day for scientific and commercial testing in the United States.

I believe that animals should not be tested on for cosmetic purposes or anything for that matter, because they are living beings. These animals feel pain, they know terror, they express love, and they fear hate. To say that a person’s looks are enough reason to terrorize a living, breathing creature, is beyond horrific. I strongly believe that animals are pure. Animals do not terrorize for financial or spiritual gain. Animals do not kill in nauseating numbers for Food, clothing, or cosmetics. These animals deserve a voice, and now they have one. Animal rights activists have spread their beliefs in music, with a very powerful message. We will not take this unjustified terrorism any longer.

I strongly agree with the con side of the Article(animals shouldn't be used for testing) for the simple reason that they are alive as well as feeling pain. People are too. It needs to stop,as long as it doesn’t, it only turns People into bigger monsters. It’s also a big waste of money on inaccurate experiments that waste animals’ lives.

Many of these inhumane experiments lead to death for many of the cases. Animals are exposed to having to inhale toxic fumes, having a hole drilled in their skull, having their skin burned off, or having to have their spinal cord crushed (PETA). Others are left unable to move on restrained devices for hours, but that is not all, “ They are deprived of everything that is natural and important to them—they are confined to barren in cages, socially isolated, and psychologically traumatized ” (Collins, PETA). This statement indicates animals are being forced to live in the harshest conditions without their needs being met. In other words, their life is taken over and become another simple object to be tested

Imagine a supposed cure was found but was not tested on humans. We later find out that this cure instead slowly killing the human taking it. This is what would happen if we take away our ability to experiment on animals. In recent years, this topic has become quite the controversy. Many animal conservationists believe that this sort of practice is unethical and is only doing harm to the animals. Others believe that animal experimentation is actually benefiting us and that we should continue to use it. As proven in the past, animals can actually help us in many situations. Lab animals should be experimented on for scientific and medical purposes in the United States.

Animals such as dogs and rabbits are forced to confined cages and isolation before enduring unethical methods of torture. Methods include poisoning, drilling through bones, burning, and more.

Observation and experimentation are how we as humans have been able to learn more about ourselves and the world and universe we live in. One of the most common methods of experimentation is animal testing. However, there are controversies surrounding animal testing. There are some that believe animal testing to be cruel and overdone, advocating for the eradication of the practice and further reliance alternative research methods. Groups like People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and other animal rights advocates fall in this category. There are some that believe animal testing to be an invaluable resource and should continue, such as some scientists and research groups. However, there appears to me to be a consensus that is closer to the middle: the belief and understanding that while there are benefits to animal testing, there are flaws in the practice and there should be changes to increase its efficacy while we simultaneously explore alternate testing methods. Many scientists and the National Institute of Health (NIH) subscribe to this idea. I aim to explore the benefits, problems, and implications of animal testing in order to reach a more informed conclusion about a position that is most validated by the information I have used.