Persuasive Essay On 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.

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.

Animal research has served a vital role in the scientific community for many centuries and continues to do so.

Since the discovery of disease, medical professionals have been looking and testing for cures. When looking for a cure or treatment for a disease you go through a series of steps. These steps are full of possible treatments, looking at your progress through a microscope, and then finally testing your possible treatment on live animals. I believe that this step is crucial to finding treatments because although the possible cure works perfectly in a petri dish may in fact be poisonous to living people. Animal testing for medical research is also impacts the effectiveness of prescription medication and even it finds treatments for animal ailments.

There are about 17 to 70 million animals used each year for experiments in the US laboratories. These animals are taken from breeding services or kidnapped from their owners. Agencies in the US such as the National Institutes of Health and Department of Defense fund many of these experiments. Today, there are other options other than putting animals through suffering. Even though the animal welfare act is in place, animal experimentation goes against animal rights because animal testing is unreliable, cruel, unnecessary, and weak testing for science.

Animal testing isn’t something that’s new and unheard of, it has been around for centuries. Using animals for research testing is not only being done in the U.S but also all over the world. What many people don’t understand is that these tests don’t just involve cute, little mice and a maze with a block of cheese at the finish line, it is long days of just sitting in a small cage with little food waiting to be chosen for the next terrifying and painful experiment. It is a harmful and cruel way of testing medicines, surgeries, and other products, to see if it may or may not be safe to use on humans. Unnecessary animal testing is killing thousands of animals every year, it is time to use alternatives for testing purposes instead.

It is estimated that 25 million animals are used to conduct product testing for human use. These product testing’s can range from the shampoo we use to our medicine. There are many alternatives to inhumane and cruel tests done on defenseless animals. Banning the testing of products on animals in the U.S. would end the suffering and wrongfulness towards animals.

There are many animals around the world that suffer every year from testing of cosmetic products. Animals ranging from rats, guinea pigs, rabbits and even dogs are violently mistreated in the process. Several tests are used on them to examine chemicals necessary to create products utilized everyday by people from all around. The public needs to be informed of the kind of abuse these innocent animals undergo and what should get done in order to end this cruelty. Together as a society, we can save the lives of thousands of innocent animals.

“Animals that develop toxic injury of disease during testing experience significant pain”(stokes). This is why so many animals are dying because they just have such a hard time dealing with the pain and suffering. “ Estimated 2,000 new chemicals and thousands of other chemical products undergo safety tests with animals to determine whether the substance is toxic, lethal, or causes allergic reactions”(Stokes). There are just so many strong and harsh chemicals going into this little animal's body and it is so unsafe for them. “A 1950’s sleeping pill caused 10,000 babies to be born with severe deformities and was tested on animals” (Newswire, “pros and cons”) This just goes to show that animal testing takes a while to reach the goal and is not always accurate. “ Seventy million animals are used in this manner in the U.S. every year” (Collin 1273). Animals are being hurt everyday and it is out of their control and it's even unfair because they do not have a

Many animals live in a locked cage for hours, frightened to death for not knowing what kind of pain they will have to endure next. All they can do is wait in their cramped cages, hoping the experiment won’t be as bad as some of the other animals they see being killed in front of their very eyes. This is the type of life that animals being tested on in laboratories have to endure. We should all prevent animal suffering and deaths by abolishing testing on them in labs.

First of all, animal testing is immoral and atrocious. According to the ‘US Department of Agriculture (USDA), in 2010, 97,123 animals suffered pain during experiments while being given no anesthesia for relief.’ From this, we can notice that a lot of animals are agonized and deteriorated. In addition, the environment of laboratories where animals live are extremely poor. For instance, all animals are locked up in small cages and animals’ limbs are chained tightly in severe cases. These examples show how animals are treated barbarously and forced by humans. Therefore, animal testing should be regulated and should keep safe of the animals in order to make the test less immoral.

Animals and humans are biologically different from each other, so results from animal experiments can’t be applied accurately to humans. Other than cosmetic companies needing insurance for their products, scientists and research use animal experimentation to collect data to use for medicine and vaccine purposes as well. With the inability to conduct reliable and plausible data, animal testing is useless. According to Christine Stevens, “Misleading results from experiments and tests using the “wrong” animals [biological differences are incapable to be compared to human anatomy due to inaccuracy] mean that the hundreds of thousands of death were worse than useless. They have cluttered the scientific literature with false conclusions virtually

Many people have opinions on animal testing. Whether or not we, as humans, should test medicines and treatments on non-human subjects has been argued for many years. Scientists should test medicines and treatments on animals because it helps them understand how diseases work and how they react with medicines.

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.

It is absurd to test poor animals for the benefit of a woman’s desire to make