Persuasive Essay On Animal Testing

Imagine yourself caged, maltreated, and cruelly abused. How would you feel? This, my friends, is what many animals feel when they are put in research labs to be tested on medications and beauty products. Animals should not be used for scientific research because it is animal cruelty, it puts animals at risk, and animals suffer just like humans. To begin with, testing on animals is animal cruelty. According to animal-testing.procon.org, “Discriminating against animals because they do not have the cognitive ability, language, or moral judgment that humans do is no more justifiable than discriminating against human beings with severe mental impairments.” This explains that animals don’t have the same characteristics and features as humans have. Animals are helpless without a human to protect them. They also don’t have the mental abilities to talk, speak, and think like a human can.

According to nap.edu/read/10089/chapter/3, paragraph 1, “The approximately 260 million people in the United States keep about 110 million dogs and cats as pets. More than 5 billion animals are killed in the United States each year as a source of food.” This piece of evidence explains how people mistreat animals. Cruelly abuse them and making them suffer. Eating dogs and cats is gross, even though the chinese call it a cuisine. Keeping an animal as a pet is a big responsibility and some people just don’t take that responsibility. That is why some dogs and cats you see are so mean and rude because the owners don’t treat them with love and passion that you're supposed to treat a