Cruelty on Animal Testing
Should animal testing be legal or illegal? Animal testing in scientific labs can hurt the poor innocent creatures. I think that testing on animals should be illegal. I’m going to be telling you the different reasons why I prefer animal testing is illegal. “Animal testing is wrong and it is cruelty to animals. Each year about five million dogs, cats, rabbits, monkeys, and other animals die in lethal dose tests performed in many states of the United States” (mega essays). Every year, an animal dies in an experiment in the United States. Can you imagine how many of these poor creatures die every day all around the world? Scientists and researchers cruelly experiment on the innocent lives of non-human animals. Animal experimentation is not only cruel, horrific, and heartbreaking it is also useless. “Ninety-four percent of animal testing is done to determine the safety of cosmetics and household products. That only leaves six percent for medical research. The saving of one life cannot be justified by the killing of another” (Stop Animal testing). During the lethal dose tests the experimental are forced into the animal’s throats, or pumped into their stomachs by a tube. This causes death by stomach rupture or from chemical dosage. Another way that animals are experimented is by injecting under their skin, often applied to the eyes, and inhaled through a gas mask. Animals are living, breathing creatures, similar to us that deserve to be treated with respect, and loyalty. Hundreds of animals die daily of scientific research. People seem to find this acceptable but if the same number of humans were to die at the same time, wouldn’t it be considered tragic? Animal experiments can be beneficial and help to find cures for some diseases. However, the number of successes is very small. It could be due to differences between species or due to illnesses that have been placed in the animals intentionally. Humans don’t catch diseases in that way. Therefore, it
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