Abraham Lincoln once said, “I am in favour of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.” I couldn’t agree more with this statement as I do not believe that animal testing is right and I am totally against it.
One of the main reasons I am against animal testing is the fact that the animals don’t have a choice and are being forced to be tested, which can lead to them getting seriously ill or dying as a cause of the testing. Each year in the USA alone, an estimate of 70 million animals are taken away from their natural habitat, blinded, scalded, force-fed chemicals, genetically manipulated, and basically hurt and killed in the name of science, by private institutions, household product and cosmetics companies, government agencies, educational institutions, and scientific centres. That is not right in my opinion and I don’t particularly see how it can be right in any morally correct human being’s opinion. So many animals experience pain or suffering and can do nothing about it, they are powerless in these situations and that is not fair, it’s not right. According to the Humane Society, registration of a single pesticide requires more than 50 experiments and the use of as many as 12, 000 animals, that statistic angers me and makes me fear for the potentially affected animals if these tests are to continue. To think that some of these tests are for cosmetic products such as make-up, nail varnish etc. leads me to believe that all the pain and suffering caused isn’t necessary and could be reduced to an extent, if not eradicated. If the animals can’t make the choice, then we can’t make the choice for them.
Another one of the main reasons I am against animal testing is the undeniable fact that there is alternatives. In this day in age there is no morally decent reason for animal testing to continue as it causes too much pain and suffering for animals all over the world. We should use