Argumentative Essay On Animal Testing

Animal Testing by Erin Davis
Persuassive Essay
Sociology Spring 2014

Imagine your pet, or if you don 't have one, imagine someone you know who has one and loves them. Imagine the love and happiness that animal brings to you or someone you may know. Now create a mental thought of a lab and that animal being tested on. Being pricked, poked, and helplessly crying. How does that make you feel and how does that sound to you? Animal testing is a process that 's crucially unfair and partially of the time done inhumanely and for what reasons? Products such as make-up, hair products, and medicine that 's bogus from the beginning. Animals are silent victims and unlike us humans, they don 't have a voice to
say yes or no to what happens to them. They are living creatures too and testing on animals for products that have nothing to do with them or items they can 't even use needs to stop. Animals should have rights.
Unlike humans they can 't speak up. They have to have someone be their voice and it 's usually the voice of someone wanting to test a product on them that they can be able to use or better yet, a product that they have no idea will benefit them. Some may say, why test on humans when we have animals that can 't disagree and have similar body structures and body make up. For example, statistics show, when products are tested on cats or dogs, they might work well with the animals body make up but is lethal for humans. When the product works well on humans, majority of the time it 's lethal on cats and dogs. Making the outcome death for the innocent
animal. We test things on animals we have no clue will work out for us. In the end, animals that are innocent and didn 't have a voice to stand up for themselves, had to fall victim to a human luxury item instead of living a normal life as part of a family or in its own natural habitat happily. Animal testing is inhumane. Strapping animals to tables, locking them up in chains, pricking them with needles, injecting their body with random things all over their bodies, and even worse; cutting into their bodies while they are still awake, being able to feel every moment. Poeple may protest and say not all testing facilities are inhumane and that those animals that are being tested are treated properly and very respectively. Really, that 's absolute garbage. The testing of animals is pretty much, “if you don 't get caught doing wrong, you 're not in the wrong”. A basic form of do not ask, do not tell. Behind those closed metal doors of the “scientific labs”, your opinion of a so called “observation” of what someone higher up in power or someone that has a label as a scientist, wants you to believe will drastically change. I can guarantee that. We should look at other options. Criminals, for example. If we want to make sure our human products work great for us, why not test on humans. We have people in jails and prisons, on death row waiting to be injected with a needle anyways or criminals serving life sentences to where they will be over 100 years of age by the time they will be able to be released. Granted, majority of the population wouldn 't surrender their body over and risking their lives for something that isn 't 100% true to work without after effects. Opposing views would say that’s not a good option. Age could play a factor based on the criminals and as well as their previous or current health conditions could play a factor. That 's still not a good enough reason to push such an option to the side and be ignored. We could actually stop complaining about jails and prisons wasting our tax money on allowing inmates to just sit and rot in jail for life but actually use those individuals for items that could benefit both human race and the over population of jails and prisons. I understand animals are not number one in some people 's lives.
They aren 't humans and that some believe we shouldn 't feel sorry for them because they are not superior to us. Ive considered that we “should” use animals over humans because that seems like the logical way to go about testing products. Animals have no say though. We should think and consider this comparison: A human baby, until the time it is to the age to when they start to grasp the concept of talking and speaking. To when they can distinguish yes or no, can only cry and make a loud wailing fuss. If you think, that 's exactly what animals do when they are in need or are just trying to show emotions. So why do we not acknowledge their feelings as living creature but we do with human babies? It 's honestly just a hypocritical
situation. They may be just seen as “pets”, however they become apart of families. I could never fathom the thought of being completely okay with the idea of letting an innocent animal to be tested on for something that I wear on my face or in my hair just to look “good” in the eyes of society, let alone my own loving pet. Animals may be small, aren 't able to speak but they are smart and they are a living species that eats, sleeps, breathes, etc. like humans do. They don 't have a voice but they have emotions. We shouldn 't mistreat and test on them all because they bark and meow instead of speak full sentences in English.

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