A Rhetorical Analysis Essay On Animal Testing

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For my Rhetorical Analysis essay I decided to use a article called "Animal Experimentation"(2014) as my controversial topic to write about. This article is controversial to me because, there are many people around the world that believe that animal testing should not be okay. Also, many people think that the animals should have rights just like us which I do not disagree with. Then there are those people who believe that animal testing should be okay because, these animals aren't rare or endangered species they also believe that the testing has no side effect that could cause harm on any of the animals which leaves me to believe that the article is very effective in the eyes of people due to that fact that the author goes into detail about …show more content…

The reason I agree with the author is because, she showed facts and quotes about what some of the scientist that work on these animals think when they are working such as when she quoted "The only thing I care about, is whether the monkeys will show characteristics that I can publish. I never feel affection for them. I don’t like animals at all. I despise cats. I hate dogs. How can you like monkeys?" (as cited by H. Ruesch in "Slaughter of the Innocent", 1983, page 52. ) which you can see why it helps her article to be more effective on animal experimenting being wrong. Also she had added a true story about how one of the professors that were testing on a monkey tattooed the work CRAP onto it's forehead all of these helped me to see why she believes that animal testing shouldn't be allowed. To me this author seems to be manipulated by emotion just because she had told so many stories that broke my heart and made me cry just thinking about what is happening to all of these innocent animals. Another reason I believe that she manipulates through emotion is because, she makes people realize all that these animals are going through just because scientist think that animals have the same feelings and reactions that us people

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