Should we use animals for scientific tests?
History and Background
Animal testing goes back to at least 500BC.
Thesis Statement
Specialized Info
Hook
Argument #2: Animal testing can be inaccurate and a waste of time.
Argument #1: Animal testing is cruel and insensitive.
Kill pregnant animals
Argument #3: Animal testing is harmful and unsafe and many citizens disagree with it
Although animal testing has improved since it was first developed it still remains a very unjust way to test different vaccines.
Have you ever wondered why polar bears, white tiger and so many other animals are going extinct? Some might be from hunting, deforestation, and global warming but many are from animal testing.
"Animal research certainly fails animals, in terms of the distress and suffering caused, and just as importantly, animal research often fails people, too." - Lindsay Marshall, PhD
Animal Aliance of Canada states that It is legal to subject these animals to the most severe levels of pain, in some instances without pain relief.
Descriptions of the dissection of live animals have been found in ancient Greek writings from as early as circa 500 BC.
Queen Victoria was an early opponent of animal testing in England
Several monkeys died in unmanned space flights carried out during the 1940's
Animals should not be used in scientific experiments of any sorts because it is cruel, inaccurate, and can be potentially dangerous.
We should not use animals in scientific testings because the results aren't always reliable, there are other ways to test vaccines, and it is inhumaine.
A scientific testing on a rat left the poor creature with an ear coming out of its back!
Over 100 million animals are burned, crippled, poisoned, and abused in US labs every year.
92% of experimental drugs that are safe and effective in animals fail in human clinical trials because they are too dangerous or don’t work.
Inject unknown substances that usualy don't work
have tested on endangered animals
94% substances work on animals fail on humans
Mislead researchers and they ignore potential cures
most experiments involving animals are flawed
Drugs that pass animal tests are not necessarily safe
Animals are used even when non-animal alternatives are available
Nearly 90% of Canadians support end to cosmetic animal testing