Persuasive Essay On Animal Testing

Many people are not aware of how large animal tests and experiments have become throughout the United States and the world. Based on statistics from 2013, 1.04 million animals have been used in experimentation throughout the United States. This statistic is not including the over 100 million mice and rats used in experiments. In Canada, 3.33 million animals are forced into painful experimentation. While 128,873 animals are exposed to torture above the pain tolerance threshold of non-anesthetized conscious animals. Animals should not be forced into this extreme level of pain, especially without anesthetics. No human would be put under this amount of pain and it is inhumane to expect innocent animals to endure the pain. 4.12 million animals face

In the United Kingdom, 25% of all animal testing is done in just six universities. These universities are the University of Cambridge, the University of Edinburgh, King’s College London, the University College London, the University of Oxford, and the Imperial College London. When asked to comment on the immense amount of testing being completed within the colleges, most colleges commented by saying that animal testing is needed in order to make advances in medicine and technology (A Quarter of All UK Animal Testing Is Done in Just Six Universities). It is a common occurence for companies to withhold the information on whether they are involved in animal testing and whether citizens’ money is going towards their testing. Companies try to withhold this information in order to protect their image. Harvard Medical School demonstrated how horribly wrong animal testing can become. Harvard Medical School faced a fine of around 25,000 dollars for their mistreatment of their primates in their New England Primate Research Center in Southborough, Massachusetts. Harvard Medical School conducted 11 violations, including dehydrated monkeys and monkeys dying due to begin tangled in chains left in their