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Persuasive Essay On Animal Testing

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Sarah Azmal Azmal1
Ms. Capone
Technology Topics
5 October 2016
Should animals be tested on ? Today there are problems occurring whether it could be people dying, no cure, need more supplies of something. Testing animals is an necessity, people will think of it as brutally killing and or using the animals. But that’s not really the case, testing animals is just testing products on a rat, which is then being helpful to people all around the world. Testing on animals help contribute to many life saving cures and treatments. Which then lead to animals being a better testing subjects than humans because of their shorter life …show more content…

For an example the California Biomedical Research Association states ” that nearly every medical breakthrough in the last 100 years has resulted directly from research using animals.” Now testing animals doesn't mean they are just killing the animals for fun they are working hard on animals to find out many cures to help people all around the world. Another example would be that there are vaccines that are being created /made by people and to make sure it’s safe they have to test it on something .Now here is where the animal testing taking place , without the lab animals there won’t be any cures and many people would start getting sick and may likely be dead . “The polio vaccine, tested on animals, reduced the global occurrence of the disease from 350,000 cases in 1988 to 223 cases in 2012. With vaccines a lot of lives would be …show more content…

Which is good because with all these animals it comes with a price in testing them. Only a few number animals are being used for the research, which therefore means it is a small price to pay for advancing medical progress. “People in the United States eat 9 billion chickens and 150 million cattle, pigs and sheep annually, yet we only use around 26 million animals for research, 95% of which are rodents, birds and fish.” also since people eat more pigs than chickens lab researchers use more chicken approximately 340 chickens for every research

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