Persuasive Essay: Should We Use Animal Testing?
Animal Testing
Have you ever had a pet or an animal that you loved? Now imagine them in pain and there is nothing they can do about it. That is what animal testing is. Many skin care and product companies do animal testing and you may be using those products everyday. Popular Companies include: Estee Lauder, Clinique, Victoria Secret, and many more. We should not use animal testing as a way to test out possibly harmful products to humans because it is an inhumane and cruel treatment of animals - it is not fair to the animals who are helpless and at the mercy of the testors; and the animals do not have a say in whether or not they approve of it. Millions of animals die each year due to the cruelty put upon them by the skin care and product companies. Animal testing should not be used because it’s inaccurate and cruel to animals. …show more content…
The animals being tested on have no say in whether or not they approve of being tested on. The scientists who create the products put harmful chemicals in their cosmetics and supplements that they aren’t even sure how it will react when it is combined with the animal. “Currently 9 out of 10 experimental drug tests FAIL in clinical studies because we can not accurately predict how they will react in people based on laboratory and animal studies.” (PETA, Michael O’ Leavitt) Animals are very different from humans, that is why we have animal medicines and human medicines. If we were the same we would take the same products and have the same effects but we don’t. We should not use animal testing because it is inaccurate depending on the type of animal and our different reactions to different substances. The pain the animals endure just for products that don’t even show complete
Have you ever had a pet or an animal that you loved? Now imagine them in pain and there is nothing they can do about it. That is what animal testing is. Many skin care and product companies do animal testing and you may be using those products everyday. Popular Companies include: Estee Lauder, Clinique, Victoria Secret, and many more. We should not use animal testing as a way to test out possibly harmful products to humans because it is an inhumane and cruel treatment of animals - it is not fair to the animals who are helpless and at the mercy of the testors; and the animals do not have a say in whether or not they approve of it. Millions of animals die each year due to the cruelty put upon them by the skin care and product companies. Animal testing should not be used because it’s inaccurate and cruel to animals. …show more content…
The animals being tested on have no say in whether or not they approve of being tested on. The scientists who create the products put harmful chemicals in their cosmetics and supplements that they aren’t even sure how it will react when it is combined with the animal. “Currently 9 out of 10 experimental drug tests FAIL in clinical studies because we can not accurately predict how they will react in people based on laboratory and animal studies.” (PETA, Michael O’ Leavitt) Animals are very different from humans, that is why we have animal medicines and human medicines. If we were the same we would take the same products and have the same effects but we don’t. We should not use animal testing because it is inaccurate depending on the type of animal and our different reactions to different substances. The pain the animals endure just for products that don’t even show complete