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Persuasive Essay Against Animal Testing

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Did you know over 100 million animals are burned, crippled, poisoned, and abused in US labs every year? Innocent animals are torched and severely hurt for the safety of humans. They do not have a voice to speak, so we must help them. Animal testing is totally immoral, it is very time-consuming, expensive, and it can even end up killing the animal.
Animal testing is very cruel and immoral. It violates an animal’s basic rights, and experiments conducted on them result in extreme and even torturous pain. Every year, tens of millions of animals are used in laboratory settings to gauge the toxicity of newly developed chemicals. Researchers subject rodent to burns, electric shocks, or painful experiences, in order to examine how similar traumas could affect humans. …show more content…

For example, "A skin allergy test on animals can take weeks and cost between $4,000-$7,000 per testing group." According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) spends an estimated $12 - $14 billion on testing annually. A non-animal skin allergy test will only take 3-4 days to complete and only end up costing less than half of animal tests. These tests are more humane and yield more accurate results. Animal testing can even injure or even kill the animal. Many rats, mice, guinea pigs, rabbits, and other animals suffer from being burned and poisoned in painful tests. FDA Neurologist Aysha Akhtar, described an animal testing facility, “Their bodies are burned, mutilated, and scarred. Animals who have their heads crushed, grip their faces and convulse as blood pours out of their noses.” Martin Wasserman, wrote for the Baltimore Sun in March 2014, “They’re scalded by chemicals on their skin and eyes, shoved into tubes no larger than their bodies and forced to breathe noxious

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