Animal Testing Should be Banned

Thank you for accepting my challenge!"Also, your second reference is of no use to your argument."It actually is, as I said a homicide was committed in Los Angeles, and I needed a source for that (read my first argument and you will see why it is relevant to the argument.) I am also sorry for invoking pity, but it actually is the truth. Even though I will attempt to steer away from the pity side of this argument, I will still say things like that. As you pointed out, this debate will get heated and back and forth. Best of luck from here!For example, we are actually locking animals in cages without lighting for our own sake. As my opponent said :"Animal testing is the main reason why most medical discoveries are discovered. Without it, we would not have many necesseties in life today, such as ashma inhalers." This statement my opponent is not only reliable, but also 100% factual. But my point is why do we have to do it on animals? Look anywhere on the web, and you will find articles about bullying other people. But what makes US so high and mighty. In a way, aren't we "taking away the animals free will," or in other terms, bullying them? Why can't we do this to ourselves, and what makes us so much better than the animals?I will now turn to an earlier argument of mine: using criminals for testing. Being in jail is a big punishment, but I'm sure being tested is worse. We can:a) Punish someone for his/her wrongdoingb) Attempt to find new cures for diseasesc) Have more reliable testing sources (Mouse contains 95% of human genes [2], human contains 100%.)As we all have probably read somewhere in the news, crime rates are going up and jails are overflowing. In 2008, there were 2.3 MILLION people in jail... in the U.S alone [1]. Now say we test about 1 in 10 crimes (serious ones) and submit the subjects into testing. We now have 230,000 people to test. We have so many drugs we have been waiting to test on humans (i.e diabetes) that we would be able to test. So why not use ourselves and find some cures for diseases? I'm sure more than just criminals would be willing to do it.My opponent suggested a link containing 40 facts that both helped his case and didn't help his case. I turned my mice argument against him, so look at the link to further understand my arguments. I will now turn to use some facts about animal testing which would be better off with human testing.1.Modern surgical techniques including hip replacement surgery, kidney transplants, heart transplants and blood transfusions were all perfected IN ANIMALS. That does nothing so far to help humans. If we had done that on humans right off of the bat more (good) lives would've been saved instead of probably killing more animals to get there than scientists are going to save. What surgeon is going to preform open-heart surgery on an animal?2. Animal research is responsible for the development of asthma inhalers; asthma still kills around 2,000 people in the UK every year. "Yet it still kills around 2,000 people in the UK ALONE." Considering we killed well over a million animals to get there... *Please note that all of my opponents arguments are valid.Now I will say some reasons from my own link [3] that animal testing should be banned.1. 92/100 drugs that pass in animals FAIL in humans. [3] [4] (This was so surprising I had to check twice!)2. Hand soap, eyeliners, and food ingredients are among t things animals are being tested for. Looking good at a prom is worth over ten thousand animals lives?3. Forward thinking scientists have made equally efficient non-animal testing methods.4. It’s mandatory for all products to be tested on animals in China. And if it fails, it kills a bunch of animals. Just put a label on it that says: BUY AT OWN RISK5. 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. Think about that next time you bite into a non-organic grape.6. Tests involve killing pregnant animals and testing their fetuses. And some people are saying abortion is wrong... what about this?!So as you can see, we need to stop animal testing. On to the con part of the debate. Thank you very much for reading![1] http://www.naacp.org...[2] http://www.understandinganimalresearch.org.uk...[3] http://www.peta.org...[4]http://www.dosomething.org... THIS IS WHAT WE'RE DOING!!!