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Persuasive Essay Against Animal Testing

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“Each year, more than 100 million animals are killed in U.S. laboratories for biology lessons, medical training, curiosity-driven experimentation, and chemical, drug, food, and cosmetics testing” (www.peta.org 1). Household and cosmetic products are known mostly for testing on animals. Some companies use animal testing as a way to determine if their products are safe for human use. Companies should not test their products on animals because there are more effective methods, too many animals are harmed in the process, and it's more beneficial to the consumers and animals. Animal testings are scientific experiments or tests in which live animals are forced to face products that can cause them pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm. Companies …show more content…

Multiple species and a large number of animals are often used to avoid mistakes, 25 percent of the tests fail because no side effects appear (Feder 1). The experiments are clumped together because of the high costs and concerns about reliability, the main reason why there is a shift away from tests on animals. “Experimenters force-feed chemicals to animals, conduct repeated surgeries on them, implant wires in their brains, crush their spines (www.peta.org 1). Laboratories are purposely harming the creatures to see if they can find the cure to a mistake that they have created. Animals are being forced down and have chemicals shot in their skin, mouths, ears, even in their eyes, and this can result in rashes, burns, tumors, and more. “In toxicity testing, animals used in chronic toxicity and carcinogenicity studies receive the test substance daily, seven days a week, for up to two years with no recovery periods (www.neavs.org 1). This shows that the harm done to these animals are inhumane, they are treated like objects and not living creatures. “Many, if not most, animals die before the end of the study with the exception of chimpanzees, animals who survive their use in research and testing can be killed after the study is completed (www.neavs.org 1). The animals are being disposed of like trash, they are objects only for a certain amount of uses

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