The Animal Experimentation Experiment

Animal Experimentation
Story about someone who worked in the animal testing lab and their experience. “One method for mice, referred to by the hair-raising euphemism ‘cervical dislocation,’ involves breaking the animal 's neck, sometimes with your bare hands. For very young mice, you cut off the heads with scissors, or the aforementioned guillotines. Science!”(cracked.com).
Animals should not be treated in any circumstances like this.
Animal experimentation should be outlawed because there are other alternatives. Onto

I. Animal experimentation began about 150 years ago.
A. What animal experimentation is

…procedures performed on living animals for purposes of research into basic biology and diseases, assessing the effectiveness of new

The first experiment on animals began many years ago.
1. “The 'modern ' era of animal research started about 150 years ago with the rise of physiology as a science” (understandinganimalresearch.org.uk).
2. “Although Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928, it was not until ten years later that it was tested, first in animals, and then subsequently in humans”( animalaid.org.uk)
C. There are multiple animals that are used for animal experimentation.
1. “…but the most common include mice, fish, rats, rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, farm animals, birds, cats, dogs, mini-pigs, and non-human primates (monkeys, and in some countries, chimpanzees)” (hsi.org).
2. “It is estimated that more than 115 million animals worldwide are used in laboratory experiments every year” (hsi.org).
3. “…mostly rabbits, mice, and rats, are subject to tests that assess the safety of cosmetic, personal care, household products, chemicals, medical devices, and their component ingredients”( aavs.org).
4. “Chimpanzees are the closest living relatives of humans, sharing 96 percent of our DNA, and the chimp genome has become a powerful source of new information about human biology and evolution” (ic.galegroup.com).
D. The Animal experimentation act has a small impact on the

Experimenting on animals may have a negative effect on them.
A. The problems animals go through when being tested
1. “Aside from the ethical issues they pose—inflicting both physical pain as well as psychological distress and suffering on large numbers of sentient creatures”(hsi.org).
2. “Drugs such as aspirin and paracetamol, commonly used to treat people, are highly poisonous to cats” (animalaid.org.uk).
B. The after effect after being tested on
1. “…they are confined to barren cages, socially isolated, and psychologically traumatized” (peta.org).
2. “Until they are killed at the end of the experiment – which could last days, weeks, months or even years – their lives are marked by pain and fear” (animalaid.org.uk).
III. The funds of testing animals effect the government in a couple of ways.
A. Different examples about how the funds of animal experimentation effect the government.
1. “NIH budgeted nearly $30 billion for research and development. (15, 16) In addition, many charities” (peta.org).
B. Explain the cost of animal testing
1. “Trying to mirror human diseases or toxicity by artificially creating symptoms in mice, dogs or monkeys has major scientific limitations that cannot be overcome”