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Should We Use Animals For Scientific Testing
Hook
Before their deaths, some are forced to inhale toxic fumes, others are immobilized in restraint devices for hours, some have holes drilled into their skulls, and others have their skin burned off or their spinal cords crushed.
Why do we use these harmless animals to test life-threatening products? Did they do anything but listen and do the testing?
Each year, more than 100 million animals including mice, rats, frogs, dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs, monkeys, fish, and birds are killed in laboratories for testing and many other things.
How would like to be forced to inhale toxic fumes, or to be immobilized in restraint devices for hours, how would you like to feel have holes drilled into your skull, or have your skin burned off, and possibly your spinal cord crushed? Well this is what thousands of animals go through every day, but what is the need?
“Science and research do not compel us to tolerate…the careless and callous handling of animals in some of our laboratories.”
– Lyndon Johnson
History And Backround
Animals have been used for testing since 300 BC
Animals who are used in experiments are treated like nothing more than disposable laboratory equipment
3.9 million animals used in experiments, some killed others not
Thesis Statment
We don't have to use animals for testing, how about we use a certain material or we use parts of an animal that had past away already, you can donate your body to science, how about animals?
Animals should not be used because they were not meant to be tested and killed in labs, they were meant to live free in the wild, and maybe some of the animals would become pets, but God did not create animals to be killed in a lab and worse killed in horrific ways.
Argument #1
innocent animals used for testing
Dogs, cats, monkeys, chimpanzees, rabbits, pigs.
mice, rats, hamsters, guinea pigs, birds, gerbils, frogs, fish.
Specialized Information
All animals used for testing area alive
Many animals are born into testing, and have to be adopted to be released
Animals have been used for testing
Argument #3
Alternatives To animal testing that we could use:
Strikingly lifelike computerized human-patient simulators that breathe, bleed, convulse, talk, and even “die”
Organs on chips
“We have moved away from studying human disease in humans. … We all drank the Kool-Aid on that one, me included. … The problem is that [animal testing] hasn’t worked, and it’s time we stopped dancing around the problem. … We need to refocus and adapt new methodologies for use in humans to understand disease biology in humans.” —Dr. Elias Zerhouni
Argument #2
Rescuing animals
Animals saved from labs are adoptable
Scientists working to save animals go into labs under cover and rescue animals.