Persuasive Essay: Animal Testing Should Be Banned
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Animal Testing Should Be Banned
THESIS: Testing on animals should be banned to protect them from the painful procedures.
I.
Cruel living conditions
A. Cages
B. No freedom
C. Stress
II.
Inaccurate results
A. Different body systems
B. Side effects
C. Costly
III.
Administering pain
A. Painkillers not required
B. Purposely hurt
C. Allowed by law
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Lacey Satterfield
Ms. W. Howard
12 Eng.
20 November 2013
Animal Testing Cruelty
“Imagine living inside a locked closet without any control over any aspect of your life
.
You can’t choose when and what you eat, how you will spend your time, whether or not you will have a partner and children, or who that partner will be
.
You can’t even decide when the lights …show more content…
Most never experience fresh air or sunshine
.
Few facilities provide outside caging, those of which receive limited and infrequent amounts of time outdoors
.
Small cages, lack of enrichment, loud noises, and bright lights are all known to create stress within the animals
.
Studies show that mice are capable of empathy and become more stressed when witnessing other mice in distress
.
In 2009, an undercover investigation revealed monkeys spinning around and around in their cages, biting open wounds, mutilating themselves, and ripping out their own hair, all because of the chronic psychological distress they must endure
.
The term used for this is “stressinduced psychosis” ( www . neavs . org )
.
They are subjected to being infected with diseases, poisoning,
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burning, brain damage, and blindness
.
They experience continuous mental and physical suffering due to the boredom, confinement, fear, and emotional stress
.
( www . neavs …show more content…
Tissue cultures, crash test dummies which have internal sensors, and models of human immune systems are just a few of the alternatives
.
Animals that are used for testing purposes must be fed certain amounts and a specific type of food, all depending on what tests are being tested on them at the time
.
They have to be given shelter during the testing
.
This causes large expenses due to the creation of artificial environments
.
Also, each time a test is performed on an animal
.
(Nakate)
U
.
S
. law allows animals to be burned, shocked, poisoned, isolated, starved, drowned, addicted to drugs, and braindamaged
.
No matter how painful the experiment may be painkillers are not required
.
Animals suffer through these tests and are then thrown back into their cages without anything to stop the pain and hurt
.
They are injected with diseases that they would
Animal Testing Should Be Banned
THESIS: Testing on animals should be banned to protect them from the painful procedures.
I.
Cruel living conditions
A. Cages
B. No freedom
C. Stress
II.
Inaccurate results
A. Different body systems
B. Side effects
C. Costly
III.
Administering pain
A. Painkillers not required
B. Purposely hurt
C. Allowed by law
Satterfield 2
Lacey Satterfield
Ms. W. Howard
12 Eng.
20 November 2013
Animal Testing Cruelty
“Imagine living inside a locked closet without any control over any aspect of your life
.
You can’t choose when and what you eat, how you will spend your time, whether or not you will have a partner and children, or who that partner will be
.
You can’t even decide when the lights …show more content…
Most never experience fresh air or sunshine
.
Few facilities provide outside caging, those of which receive limited and infrequent amounts of time outdoors
.
Small cages, lack of enrichment, loud noises, and bright lights are all known to create stress within the animals
.
Studies show that mice are capable of empathy and become more stressed when witnessing other mice in distress
.
In 2009, an undercover investigation revealed monkeys spinning around and around in their cages, biting open wounds, mutilating themselves, and ripping out their own hair, all because of the chronic psychological distress they must endure
.
The term used for this is “stressinduced psychosis” ( www . neavs . org )
.
They are subjected to being infected with diseases, poisoning,
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burning, brain damage, and blindness
.
They experience continuous mental and physical suffering due to the boredom, confinement, fear, and emotional stress
.
( www . neavs …show more content…
Tissue cultures, crash test dummies which have internal sensors, and models of human immune systems are just a few of the alternatives
.
Animals that are used for testing purposes must be fed certain amounts and a specific type of food, all depending on what tests are being tested on them at the time
.
They have to be given shelter during the testing
.
This causes large expenses due to the creation of artificial environments
.
Also, each time a test is performed on an animal
.
(Nakate)
U
.
S
. law allows animals to be burned, shocked, poisoned, isolated, starved, drowned, addicted to drugs, and braindamaged
.
No matter how painful the experiment may be painkillers are not required
.
Animals suffer through these tests and are then thrown back into their cages without anything to stop the pain and hurt
.
They are injected with diseases that they would