The US federal Government should ban ALL testing that requires the use of animals.

You are really good :) Nice! For a brief road map, I am going to attack my opponents case and at the same time build and structure my own. My opponent forgot to label his contentions so I will start from his first one and move downward. In his first contention: He gave an example of a monkey being tested on in relating that to Alzheimers and then stated a statistic about the Anti-Vivisection Society. He also goes on to talk about how it is not useful or reliable. What my opponent is failing to look at is the other end of the spectrum. Without animal research, medicine as we know it today wouldn"t exist. Animal research has enabled us to find treatments for cancer, antibiotics for infections, vaccines to prevent some of the most deadly and debilitating viruses and surgery for injuries, illnesses and deformities. As I have brought up in my first contention, a multitude of diseases have been cured through the use of animal testing. Some examples are Smallpox (cow) has now been eradicated from earth, Polio has been eradicated from North America and people in countries all over the world are being successfully treated (mouse and monkey). Insulin is now able to help control diabetes (dog, fish). There are vaccines for tetanus (horse), rubella (monkey), anthrax (sheep), and rabies (dog, rabbit). A short list, far from comprehensive, of some of the achievements made possible by medical research and the animal used to develop it. Here are more examples! An understanding of the Malaria lifecycle (pigeon), tuberculosis (cow, sheep), Typhus (guinea pig, rat, mouse), and the function of neurons (cat, dog). The discovery of anticoagulants (cat), penicillin (mouse), open heart surgery and cardiac pacemakers (dog), lithium (rat, guinea pig), treatment for leprosy (armadillo), organ transplantations (dog, sheep, cow, pig), laproscopic surgical techniques (pig), and a drug for AIDS treatment (monkey). I have named about 20 of ways animal testing has helped society and the list goes on and cures are being created everyday through the use of animal testing. My opponent stated that animal testing is unreliable and not useful. As you can see this is simply not true. Now I will be moving on to his second contention. Contention two and three: In this contention he basically just gives many examples of alternatives to animal testing. What we must look at is the history of animal testing. As I brought up in my last argument, animal testing has helped society in many ways and continues to advance. Living organisms are incredibly complex and scientists still only understand a very small fraction of the structures, chemicals, interactions and metabolic pathways in humans and animals. The only way for scientists to learn more about them is through organisms that possess these traits. That"s why animal research is so important for the future of medicine and the ability to treat and cure diseases. So what we have to look at is the history of animal testing and the benefits it has presented explain for itself. I have addressed my opponents arguments and look forward to my opponents next speech. :) http://www.pro-test.org.uk...