Persuasive Essay On Animal Testing

Libby, one of 250 dogs and cats rescued from Professional Laboratory and Research Services, comes home to her rescuer longing for attention.. but is too scared to even stand up. Libby was sick with hookworms, tapeworms, and rotted teeth. Pharmacy companies paid the laboratories to infest dogs and cats with worms, fleas, and ticks, then force feed them or smear their skin with toxic chemicals in tests. Peta’s investigators recorded workers as they kicked, threw, and dragged the animals. (Peta.org)

Right now, millions of mice, rabbits, primates, cats, dogs, and other animals are currently locked inside cold, barren cages in laboratories across the country, waiting for the next terrifying and painful procedure that will be performed on them.

The cause of this is because, animal experimenters and scientists want us to believe that if they gave up their archaic habit, sick children and other disease and accident victims would drop dead in droves. But the most significant trend in modern research in recent years has been the recognition that animals rarely serve as good models for the human body. We believe this is a tradition. The only reason people are under the misconception that animal experiments help humans is because the media, experimenters, universities and lobbying groups exaggerate the potential of animal experiments to lead to new cures and the role they have played in past medical advances. Scientists say that if we didn 't have animals, we’d have to test new drugs on people. The fact is that we already do test new drugs on people. No matter how many animal tests are undertaken, someone will always be the first human to be tested on. Because animal tests are so unreliable, they make those human trials all the more risky. The Food and Drug Administration has noted that 92 percent of all drugs that are shown to be safe and effective in animal tests fail in human trials because they don’t work or are dangerous. PETA and its affiliates fund the development of many of these non-animal methods, promote their use to governments and companies around the world, and publish research on their superiority to traditional animal tests. And of the small percentage

… We all drank the Kool-Aid on that one, me included. … The problem is that [animal testing] hasn’t worked, and it’s time we stopped dancing around the problem,” he continued. “We need to refocus and adapt new methodologies for use in humans to understand disease biology in humans.” (PETA)

“ Animals help in the fight against cancer “ Since President Richard Nixon signed the Conquest of Cancer Act in 1971, the “war on cancer” in the United States has become a series of losing battles. Through taxes, donations, and private funding, Americans have spent almost $200 billion on cancer research since 1971. However, more than 500,000 Americans die of cancer every year, a 73 percent increase in the death rate since the “war”