K. Royall
28 November 2016
Audience Description: An opinionated article publishing in Time Magazine addressing people against animal testing. This is a public magazine reaching many people. The purpose is to convince them that animal testing is the lesser way of two evils by making them acknowledge the benefits of animal testing.
Why Animal Testing Is Important
According to Hajar animal testing has been used for a long period of time as early as “ Early Greek physician-scientists, such as Aristotle, (384 – 322 BC) and Erasistratus, (304 – 258 BC), performed experiments on living animals.” This not only shows how long animal testing has been around it also shows us how crucial it has been for everyone …show more content…
While some people are fortunate and do not have any medical condition others depend on animal testing to survive or to live a happier and healthier life. Life long injuries such as asthma, cancer, and blindness have been killing people, making them miserable, and unhappy. By following through with animal testing it allowed diseases to be understood and helped gain solutions to help human survivability. With the ability to test on animals these things have been cured or greatly reduces to help thousands upon millions of people. Overall people have greatly benefitted from animal testing as well as many are fortunate enough to go back to their regular lifestyles with the people they love and enjoy being around. While there will always be people who want to stop animal testing because they want the animals have the chance also; animal testing has been a blessing to people who never would have imagined of having a long, happy, active lifestyle which most definitely overpower the cons of animal testing. I do believe that some animals should be backed off of from testing such as horses, dogs, and monkeys since they are well loved by people. However using rats has made most of the discoveries and since rats are not the most liked animals, scientist should keep testing on them to make new discoveries. Animals should most definitely be used for the sole purpose of expanding the medical treatments and should be treated kindly not harshly or roughly handled. Since animal testing has given people a second chance in life pretty much, we need to be kind to the animals and know that they are not objects we are testing on they are alive and deserve to be treated with respect. Thanks to animal testing people can once again live a much more normal life at home or a place they find most comfortable rather than be stuck in a hospital for long periods of