Persuasive Essay On Animal Abuse

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The abuse that animals endure at human hands is heartbreaking, sickening, and infuriating. Animals are just as delicate as humans, so why not abuse us too? Animal lives should be just important as ours. No animals should be killed or abused for testing, entertaining, clothing, or hoarding. Every year, millions of animals are being killed and torture for testing. Animal testing is one the most beyond cruelty against animals. It is estimated about 7 million innocent animals are electrocuted, blinded, scalded, force-fed chemicals, genetically manipulated, killed in the name of science. By private institutions, households products, cosmetics companies, government agencies, educational institutions and scientific centers. From the products we use every day, such as soap, make-up, furniture polish, cleaning products, and perfumes. Over 1 million dogs, cats, primates, sheep, hamsters and guinea pigs are used in labs each year. Of those, over 86,000 are dogs and cat. All companies are most likely to test on animals to make patients feel safe and are more likely to trust medicines if they know they have been tested on animals first (PETA, N.D, page 1). These tests are done only to protect companies from consumer lawsuits. Although it’s not quite true, Humans and animals don’t always react in the same way to drugs. In the UK an estimated 10,000 people are killed or severely disabled every year by unexpected reactions to drugs, all these drugs have passed animal tests. Animal testing is often unpredictable in how products will work on people. Some estimates say up to 92 percent of tests passed on animals failed when tried on humans (Procon.org, 2014, page 1). Animal testing can’t show all the potential uses for a drug. The test results are... ... middle of paper ... ...t initially harm the animals, but are only trying to help. It is considered abuse by which the owner fails to provide food, water, sanitation, and veterinary care to the animal (PETA, 2014, pp. 1). Most hoarders keep an unusual number of pets because they suffer emotion distress of a tragic event that has happened in his or her life. Animal hoarders don’t realize the suffering they put their animals through until it’s too late (Animal hoarding, N.D., pp. 1). The animals do, however suffer from lung disease, pulmonary disease, along with many other diseases (Hoarding, 2014, pp.1). Obsessive hoarding consumes time, money, and emotion of the person. Victims of this disorder won’t ask for help in which they are afraid that they are going to be accused or judged by their actions. They rarely seek treatment unless they are motivated to do so (The pet issue, 2012, pp. 5).

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