Persuasive Speech On Animal Testing Because It Is Cruel And Inhumane

General Purpose: To Persuade

Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience to act aganist animal testing because it is cruel and inhumane.

Introduction

(Attention Gainer) Forgiving, Friendly, and small. This is why Ebbie and 39 other beagles were choosen to be test subjects for medications, cosmetics, and household products research in Spain. Most dogs end up being euthanized, but these 40 beagles were given a second chance at a new life when they were rescued and put into loving homes. These animals touched grass and felt free for the first time from their life confined to a cage. Many dogs have their vocal chords taken out, so that they don 't bark when they are injected with harmful chemicals. (Chase, 2013).

(Reason to Listen) Unfortunatly

(Preview Main Points) I will first talk about how animals are tested on to give us the products that we use everyday. Second, I will speak about why animals are chosen to be test subjects, then lastly about how we can help end animal testing.

Body

(Main Point # 1) Cruel and inhumane practices are used on animals to test products that we use everyday.

(Sub-Point # 1) According to The Humane Society International, animal testing is the process of using living animals for research purposes. Much of this research is done for common human use such as medicine, cosmetics, shampoos, cleaning products,pesticides, contact lenses, and diapers. Most of these research facilities will tell you that the pain the animals feel during testing is considered “mild”, but still have the potential to cause pain, suffering, and even death for the animals. Common procedures include forced exposures to chemicals which is done by injections. Animals are also inflicted pain with wounds so that either their healing or stress level can be studied. At the end animals are killed or are used in other experimentations. The number of animals that have been tested on should be reported, but 90% of the animals used in testing here in the United States are not represented on government statistics (Rowan,

The Animal Welfare act was created in 1996 and it 's main purpose was to establish a licensing system for animal dealers and laboratories that use dogs, cats, hamsters, guinea pigs, rabbits, or non-human primates. This was also done in Great Britain in the 1960 's which was used to calm the debate of using animals in science. This act is the only federal law in the United States that is regulating the treatment of animals in research. Some say that this isn 't enough to protect the animals in testing labs. David Favre states that, "This is a federal law of limited purpose and scope." He goes on to say that, it does not deal with all species of animals, as do most state anti-cruelty laws. Instead, the law focuses upon several very specific activities that have been shown in the past to be potential areas of animal abuse and that have a nationwide aspect to them (Favre,