Persuasive Essay On Animals

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For thousands of years scientist have been performing vivisections on animals to find information on new chemicals, drugs, and vaccines. Vivisection is when scientist perform dissections among living animals mostly for the purpose of educating and retrieving information. Experimenting on animals has become the tool that has helped us comprehend the body functions of an animal and how a disease transforms the bodily functions, but over the years it’s caused animal rights activists to question the usefulness and the sincerity of using animals for this purpose. Although animal research has been helpful in the past, it is morally wrong in the sense that experimenting on animals is not the only way to collect information. There are other alternatives …show more content…

AIDS is a disease of the immune system increasing chances to receive infections, tumors or cancer caused by transmitting it through blood, blood products that enter the bloodstream, contaminated needles, or sexual contact. 98-percents of the chimps have a similar type of DNA as humans do, so scientists assumed the transmission process would be the same. Unlike humans the chimpanzees did not develop AIDS when being infected with the HIV virus. Though the genes between humans and chimps seem the same there is one difference specifically in the immune system that explains why chimpanzee are not affected by AIDS or Alzheimer 's disease, and that’s because chimps have a DNA section 10,000 bases long that humans don’t have that is similar to a retrovirus which is when a group of viruses insert a DNA copy of their haploid chromosomes in a …show more content…

They say “the new technologies, such as software models that mimic the human body and stem cells extracted from embryos or grow from skin cells will reduce or eliminate that need for animal testing”(Animal Testing pg1 para 5). Health director Dr. Elias Zerhouni admits that experimenting on animals to help humans has been a failing disappointment and says “we have moved away from studying human disease in humans. The problem is that animal testing has not worked, and it is time we stopped dancing around the problem… We need to refocus and adapt new methodologies for use in humans to understand disease biology in humans” (PETA “Alternative To Animals Testing” pg1 para

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