cjramirez
Ciara Ramirez
COMM1000
11/11/13
Argument Analysis
Have you ever looked at your pet dog, cat, hamster, or monkey and pondered the thought of it being used as a lab animal? According to AWA reports approximately 1,136,567 animals are used per year for lab testing. And this “testing” is not pretty. Animal cruelty is one of the most controversial subjects when it comes to differentiating views. Nevertheless, when illogical points are made, such as those in the argument discussed a counter argument is quick to put together. The obvious hypocrisy, fallacious correlation, and exaggerative style of the argument made by the author (who is unknown) are all a recipe to an unreliable argument. Animal cruelty is not the only answer to finding cures to diseases, cures that cannot guarantee the same results.
What makes “Oscar winning director” Scavan Kleck a credible critic of animal experimentation? I typed the name into the google search engine and there is no reliable evidence that Scavan Kleck is a credible critic. The real experts that know all there is to know about animal cruelty are organizations such as PETA who work through public education, cruelty investigations, research, animal rescue, legislation, special events, celebrity involvement, and protest campaigns. Animal testing is NOT the only alternative to finding cures for diseases. Organizations such as PETA work to find alternatives, and have found that using human tissue cultures work just as well if not better, proving the fallacious correlation between animal experimenting and death of thousands of children wrong. Experimenters do in fact have a choice, and it is neither experimenting on animals, nor allowing thousands of children to die.
The author makes an obvious hypocritical point when asking why the real worry is on animal experimenting when it should be on how people treat their animals. If there is a problem with animal cruelty, how is animal experimenting any better? Both mediums are
COMM1000
11/11/13
Argument Analysis
Have you ever looked at your pet dog, cat, hamster, or monkey and pondered the thought of it being used as a lab animal? According to AWA reports approximately 1,136,567 animals are used per year for lab testing. And this “testing” is not pretty. Animal cruelty is one of the most controversial subjects when it comes to differentiating views. Nevertheless, when illogical points are made, such as those in the argument discussed a counter argument is quick to put together. The obvious hypocrisy, fallacious correlation, and exaggerative style of the argument made by the author (who is unknown) are all a recipe to an unreliable argument. Animal cruelty is not the only answer to finding cures to diseases, cures that cannot guarantee the same results.
What makes “Oscar winning director” Scavan Kleck a credible critic of animal experimentation? I typed the name into the google search engine and there is no reliable evidence that Scavan Kleck is a credible critic. The real experts that know all there is to know about animal cruelty are organizations such as PETA who work through public education, cruelty investigations, research, animal rescue, legislation, special events, celebrity involvement, and protest campaigns. Animal testing is NOT the only alternative to finding cures for diseases. Organizations such as PETA work to find alternatives, and have found that using human tissue cultures work just as well if not better, proving the fallacious correlation between animal experimenting and death of thousands of children wrong. Experimenters do in fact have a choice, and it is neither experimenting on animals, nor allowing thousands of children to die.
The author makes an obvious hypocritical point when asking why the real worry is on animal experimenting when it should be on how people treat their animals. If there is a problem with animal cruelty, how is animal experimenting any better? Both mediums are