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Alan Rosas

Ms. Moore

Expository Reading and Writing Course

Period 2

16 December 2016

Animal Testing: The fight for animal protection and extinction

Ever since 500 B.C. in ancient Greece, many Physician-Scientists such as Aristotle and

Herophilus performed experiments on animals in order to discover their functions. Some of these

experiments included vivisection and dissection, and were conducted on human criminals and

also animals in ancient Rome and Alexandria. In the 19th century, public opposition to animal

experimentation arose when the increased adoption of domesticated animals grasped an interest

in the anti-vivisection movement in England. Because of the advancement in technology, many

scientists found cures for human diseases. Sadly, many cures are being discovered by testing on

animals it causes an enormous amount of abuse and death. Since animal testing involves

substantial harm, this type of research should be limited in order to protect and prevent the

extinction of many animals and restrict animal cruelty to a minimum.

Many animal inhabitants in our country, which is the United States, are suffering through

the torture they encounter in animal testing. According to The Leading Source for Pros and Cons

of Controversial Issues, animals are being utilized in the most common experiments that

administer them to force feeding and inhalation, food and water privation, extended periods of

physical restraint, affliction of burns and other injuries to study the healing process, infliction of
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pain to study its effects and remedies, and killing by neck-breaking, decapitation, or other

means. Basically, The Leading Source for Pros and Cons of Controversial issues is saying that

the animals are being persecuted for animal experimentation. The Animal Legal Defense Fund

state In accordance to the FDA, which is the Food and Drug Administration, 92% of drugs

tested on animals declined to meet the standards for human use, and this rate is increasing not

improving. In making this comment, the Animal Legal Defense Fund argues that animal testing

should be limited, since most of the drug tests fail. In brief, a variety these nonhuman living

organisms are experiencing examinations incorporating maltreatment.

In the animal research facilities, animals should be provided with methods to avert a

numerous of innocent deaths. The Leading Source for Pros and Cons of Controversial Issues

view is that, artificial human skin, such as the technical available products EpiDerm and

ThinCert, is created from sheets of human skin cells produced in test tubes or plastic wells and

form more useful data than testing chemicals on animal skin. The Leading Source for Pros and

Cons of the Controversial Issues point is that models should be used to replace animals in these

experimental activities. The Animal Legal Defense Fund states, the Animal Welfare Act is a

federal law addresses the guidelines of care animals receive at research facilities, which

precludes roughly 95% of animals whom are tested with small protection for the rest. In other

words, this charitable organization believes utilizing the law is a great way to protect the

animals. As a result, there are several ways to develop in the prevention of the senseless demise

of many animals.

Animal investigations should continue, for it can deliver humans and animals from the

termination of their existences. According to the Leading Source for Pros and Cons of
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Controversial Issues, The California Biomedical Research Association made a statement that

states nearly every medical breakthrough in the last 100 years has derived precisely from

research utilizing animals. The Leading Source for Pros and Cons of Controversial Issues is

insisting that these activities remain because it has led to successful attacks opposed to disease.

In the National Center for Biotechnology Informations view, In order to improve the health

and welfare of humans and animals, research facilities utilize animals to accumulate basic

knowledge, that cannot be gained in other ways. Research directed on these living organisms

varies widely in its influence on the animal subjects themselves. The essence of the National

Center for Biotechnology Information argument is that animal testing is the only way to receive

knowledge about the health of both human and nonhumans. To conclude, the performance of

these experiments commits the ability to save the lives of both human beings and animals.

If the practice of analyzing animals was banned in the United States, it would negatively

impact the nonhuman species and humanity itself. The Leading Source for Pros and Cons of

Controversial Issues agrees when it writes If animals were not used for probations, millions of

them would have died from many diseases like rabies, distemper, tetanus, anthrax, and canine

parvovirus. The organizations point is that a numerous of kind of animal species will result in

death without any medical investigations. Understanding Animal Research institution states,

Many modern surgical procedures including hip replacement surgery, blood transfusions, and

kidney and heart transplants were all fulfilled in animals. The essence of the Understanding

Animal Research organizations argument is that without animal testing we humans would have

not been able to provide surgical treatment. To sum up, the prohibition of the animal

examination could have led to severe consequences.

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Animal testing should stop occurring because many animals are being harmed, killed, and

abused. Josie P. a teenager from Wisconsin, who participated in the National Writing Project of

2016 complains that animals are being mistreated in laboratories to test out new medical

products. She explains why scientists commit these actions and states that they require testing to

uncover new medical formulas to appropriately use on humans. Even though the investigations

on animals performed by many scientists is ethical, it can also be unethical for it causes most of

their deaths. In my perspective, its considered as animal cruelty for animals are tortured by

poisoning with drug injections and starving them to death. According to the Animal Legal

Defense Fund, In 2012, monkeys were boiled alive when sent via scalding-hot mechanical cage

washers, while other animals inflamed to decease in inferior laboratory situations. The Animal

Legal Defense Funds point is that animal testing should be confined because animals like

monkeys are suffering until death.Therefore, no matter how moral it is to conduct experiments

on animals at the same time its immoral by the maltreatment and murders that arise.

Because the examination of animals incorporates consequential harm, this kind of

research should be restrained in order to defend and inhibit the elimination and restrict animal

torture to the minimal. In the United States, a variety of animals are encountering anguish via the

abuse they experience in animal examinations. At the research centers, where animals are tested,

the scientists should invent ways to prevent many innocent nonhuman deaths. If activities of

animal testing was restricted, it would only cause severe consequences to both human and

animals. Animal experimentation should stop continuing, for a numerous of animal species are

being misused, executed, and most significantly abused. For many centuries ever since 500 B.C.

animals have been tested by scientists which caused their deaths. We as the U.S citizens, should
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form a petition for the government to pass a law that limits animal testing in our country for the

sake of the animals lives.

Works Cited

"Animal Testing and the Law." Animal Legal Defense Fund. Animal Legal Defense Fund, 6 June

2016. Web. 17 Dec. 2016.

"Animal Testing." ProConorg Headlines. THE LEADING SOURCE FOR PROS & CONS OF

CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES, 24 May 2016. Web. 17 Dec. 2016.

National Research Council (US) and Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on the Use of

Laboratory Animals in Biomedical and Behavioral Research. "Patterns of Animal Use."

Use of Laboratory Animals in Biomedical and Behavioral Research. U.S. National

Library of Medicine, 01 Jan. 1988. Web. 17 Dec. 2016.

P., Josie. "Animal Testing Should Stop Now." Animal Testing Should Stop Now. Letters to the

Next President 2.0, 8 Nov. 2016. Web. 17 Dec. 2016.

Understanding Animal Research. "About Us." Forty Reasons Why We Need Animals? N.p., 12

Sept. 2016. Web. 17 Dec. 2016.

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