Animal Testing Persuasive Speech

Imagine being isolated in a small cage and being tested on with nothing to help the pain, that’s what lab animals go through every day. We have been testing on animals since the early 1900’s, but it’s time we put down the scalpel and put away the cages. In today’s time we have the technology to test on computerized patient simulators that are more accurate than animals. Animals don’t have a choice to be experimented on, and humans need to help stop that. Animal testing should be illegal because it causes unnecessary pain, is no longer logical with technological advances and is causing ptsd as seen in humans after going to war.

Making animal testing illegal will stop the torture and unnecessary pain that’s brought to animals. According to animal rights, “The only U.S. law that governs the use of animals in laboratories—the Animal Welfare Act—allows animals to be burned, shocked, poisoned, isolated,
Now we have patient simulators that are basically non living humans. These human simulators are being used to teach emergency surgical procedures, mimic illnesses, and injuries that all come back with more positive results than animals. These “patients’ bleed, breath, convulse, die, and talk just like a real patient. The FDA states that 92% of animal tested products have failed in human trials, or had to be relabeled. If we can use these computers we can prevent less fails and be saving time as well as money. Unfortunately over half of all animal tested products have to be discontinued or replaced because of the side effects that happen in human trials. We are already testing on people so why not skip the unreliable step of animal testing and move right into human trials. There will always be someone who is the first human to be tested on, no matter how many animals we test on first. We have no excuse to be testing on animals with our technological advances and willing humans to test