Animal Abuse/Testing

Blaine Laswell Ms. Hogan English 1 19 November 2014 Testing On Animals Testing on animals is violent and wrong because they feel and think in the same way that we do. My main points are that we should ban animal testing everywhere in the world and that animals have feeling and emotion lastly is that there are alternative testing methods for testing medicines and such. Testing medicine and makeup on animals is wrong. We should ban animal testing all over the world. Countries have already ban animal testing but why not the rest of the world? The E.U, Norway, Israel, and India have all ban animal testing but not the United States, Canada, or Russia. Why not? Animal testing costs lots of money and time but most of the money they use is actually taxpayers money. Others could say that everything they are doing is humane but it is not "It is unethical to put one hundred million thinking feeling animals to a life in a laboratoratory cage" People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals or Peta for short. Almost ninety-two of one hund0red drugs pass animal testing but fail in human exactly like the drug Vioxx which worked for animals but killed sixty thousand people. Everyone in the world should ban such a horrific thing to do to all animal species. Animals have nerves like us and feeling like so why does testing go on, the animals are forced to suffer more and more every day. Animals have emotions and thought processes like we do. If a dog whimpers what does the dog feel? If a cat hisses what does it mean? These things that do express feelings and emotions like when a human being cries or laughs. Just because they are not exactly like us does not mean they cannot feel. The most common thing people say is that animals do not have feeling or emotion. When a dog wags its tail t means that they could be happy or that they are agitated or some other emotion but it is an emotion. When an elephant covers the remains of its species and caresses the remains what do you think it is doing it is mourning the elephant that died. The things that these animals are doing show that they have emotion and feeling but why test on them when there are other ways. There are other methods for testing medicine and makeup than using a living creature that did not volunteer itself. When using animals for testing it is essentially a waste of funding and time because the other ways are humane and cheaper. The college of Harvard has created a system that uses human cells grown inside a machine made to replicate human diseases and drug responses more accurate than animal testing. Otherwise they could just pay volunteering humans that give them their consent to mess with their body. The government may say that no those things are far more expensive than animal testing but it is not. Almost sixteen billion dollars of taxpayer"s money goes to animal testing. One point nine million dollars in the University of Ohio State for cruel heart attack experiments on dogs or the sixteen million at Harvard for drug addiction experiments on monkeys even the three million at Wisconsin University for mice fighting experiments. Just because animals do not talk like us does not mean they do not feel so all the testing that the world does on animals is wrong and should be stopped. The governments of the world should ban animal testing because animals have feelings and emotions, because there are alternative ways to test these things. Animal testing should be ban world wide not a single town not a single state should it be allowed. If you were being dissected to see what a toxin did to your tissue would you think it was humane? Sources: PETA. "Top Five Reasons to Stop Animal Testing." PETA Top Five Reasons to Stop Animal Testing Comments. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 Dec. 2014 Bekkof, Mark. "Do Animals Have Emotions?" The Bark. The Bark, n.d. Web. 30 Nov. 2014. "More Than $16 Billion in Taxpayer Money Wasted Annually on Animal Testing." PETA. PETA, n.d. Web. 30 Nov. 2014.