Persuasive Essay On Animal Testing

Unethical, cruel, and disturbing. These are just a few words that come in mind when Society thinks about animal testing. The animals used in laboratory tests and experiments are put through hours and hours of painful and traumatizing tests daily, doing this is wrong and should not be done. What is this country doing to stop this torture? They are doing absolutely nothing. There are a few organizations such as, People for the Ethical Treatments of Animals and The Humane society of the United States (humansociety.org) are working together to end this terrible outrage, but a few groups of people will not make a big impact on this matter. This nation needs to come together and see the truth behind these crimes. Animal testing needs to be stopped because animals have a wide range of emotions that are the same as humans, the tests performed on animals are not reliable or efficient, and there are many alternatives that can be used that would save many animals lives.

Animals can have emotions and feel pain. According to “dictionary.com”, an animal is “any member of the kingdom of the kingdom Animalia, comprising Multicellular organisms that have well-defined shape and usually limited growth, can move voluntarily, actively acquire food and digest it internally, and have sensory and nervous systems that allow them to respond rapidly to stimuli.” The definition clearly states that animals have a sensory and nervous system and they respond rapidly to stimuli. If an animal can respond to stimuli, why wouldn’t they be capable of having emotions? Some Scientists argue that animals cannot experience the same type of emotions that humans do, however recent research has shown that animals respond to the environment as humans do, reacting emotion...

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...motions. Monkeys are addicted to drugs and have holes drilled in their skulls, sheep and pigs have their skin burned off and rats have their spinal cords crushed. Tiny mice grow tumors as large as their own bodies, kittens are purposely blinded, and rats are made to suffer seizures. In Archaic medical training courses, pigs and dogs are cut open and killed and cats and ferrets have hard plastic tubes forced down their delicate throats. Most of these barbaric experiments are funding by the federal government using the public’s taxes dollars. So we are wasting precious dollars on cruel experiments. All of this is unethical, cruel, and disturbing which is only a few words to describe animal testing. This why animal testing is wrong so think about all those animals that are suffering before you buy make-up, medicine, and bathing products that have been tested on animals.