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Charles Magel Animal Testing Rhetorical Analysis

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Charles R. Magel said? Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is, "Because the animals are like us." Ask the experimenters why it is morally okay to experiment on animals, and the answer is, "Because the animals are not like us." Animal experimentation rests on a logical contradiction. Animals are living creatures that have feelings just like a human being. Animals are not like us on the physical part, but that doesn’t mean that we have the right to kill, hurt or even experiment with them. If you ever had a pet or knew someone related to you who had a pet, they’d probably always be talking about how kind, sweet, beautiful, and lovely their animals are. Animal are even used to test products such as Shampoos, …show more content…

Magel said? Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is, "Because the animals are like us." Ask the experimenters why it is morally okay to experiment on animals, and the answer is, "Because the animals are not like us." Animal experimentation rests on a logical contradiction. Animals are living creatures that have feelings just like a human being. Animals are not like us on the physical part, but that doesn’t mean that we have the right to kill, hurt or even experiment with them. If you ever had a pet or knew someone related to you who had a pet, they’d probably always be talking about how kind, sweet, beautiful, and lovely their animals are. Animal are even used to test products such as Shampoos, perfumes and cosmetics. Those products aren’t like the ones we use, they have different types of chemicals and they try them on the animals to see if it will affect us. Animals testing should not occur because killing an animal is not helping us It’s messing up the world. Animals aren’t something that we could manipulate they are living creatures that have feelings just like us. Humans wouldn’t like to be in cages or laboratories right? Animal testing is cruel because scientists do many horrible tests on the animals. For instance, they leave the animals in cages where they can’t even move their body. The scientists don’t even care if the animal dies. Scientists torture the animals by force feeding, force inhalation and by not feeding the …show more content…

So they believe that is a better benefit to risk an animal life than a human life. The World Medical Association Declare of Helsinki states that human trials should be preceded by tests on animals. But the real truth is that the drugs that they use on the animals aren’t necessary safe for us , for example the 1950s sleeping pill thalidomide, which caused 10,000 babies to be born with severe deformities. Scientist tries it on pregnant mice, rats, guinea pigs, cats, and hamsters, but it did not result in birth defects unless the drug was administered at extremely high doses. In conclusion animals testing should not be done because animals are like human beings, they feel, they live, they eat so why would we want to kill animals for any type of testing when we could try it on a human being that might want to let the scientist try it on them. The animals have the right just like anyone else to have a life, a animal can’t speak, but that doesn’t mean that we could take over that and do whatever we want with them. Animals are like us just and just like them, we would not want to be in a cage dying just to try something that might not even

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