Animal Testing Argumentative Essay

Every year 12-27 million animals, are killed in the U.S. for biology lessons, medical training, curiosity-driven experimentation, and chemical, drug, food, and cosmetics testing. It is cruel to use animals as test subjects to our own convenience (PETA 4). There may be some benefits to animal testing but in the long run it is still wrong. Even though animal testing contributes to lifesaving cures and treatments, this does not justify the suffering of animals. Animals suffer everyday from testing. Some of the animals that are used for testing include mice, rats, frogs, dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs, monkeys, fish, and birds (Animals Used, N.D.). These animals are getting subjected to force feeding, forced inhalation, food and water deprivation, prolonged periods of physical restraint, infliction of pain and burns, neck breaking and decapitation. These animals are getting tortured every day of their lives. In 2016, 71,370 animals suffered in pain during experiments while given no anesthesia for relief. This includes 1,272 nonhuman primates, 5,771 rabbits, 24,566 …show more content…
During the 1950s, a sleeping pill came out called Thalidomide. This pill caused more than 10,000 babies to be born with severe deformities (Animal Testing, 2017). Some people say that if thalidomide had been properly tested on pregnant animals, its potential for causing severe birth defects would have been discovered before the drug became legal for human consumption, but my perspective is even if they did not test in on pregnant animals, how could they have known that a sleeping pill would cause birth defects (Animal Testing, 2017). Would you have to test it on everything possible thing that there could complications with? In 1999, Vioxx showed protection of the heart in mice, but when was used on humans caused more than 27,000 heart attacks and cardiac deaths (Animal Testing, 2017). Animal tests do not dependably predict results in human