Animal Testing Persuasive Speech

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Attention Step: Dove, Windex, ChapStick, Vaseline. I’m confident that many people in this room are familiar with these brands. I am also confident that you are familiar with these animals,
Rabbits, Cats, Dogs, Monkeys. What I’m not so sure about is how well you understand the relationship between the two categories.
Thesis: The problem is simply that millions of animals are dying each year from animal testing, on brands like the ones I just mentioned, and we aren’t doing anything about it.
Preview: I hope to be able to show you the urgency of the problem, what you can do to help, and how it’ll effect the future of animal testing.
Need Step: It’s Obvious that animal testing is bad. But how bad is it? More than 100 million animals die each year from animal testing.
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The only way I can think of that people can justify the use of animals in testing is because of how it helps human. But that’s just not the case anymore. In March 2006, six human volunteers were injected with a drug that had been cleared in rats, rabbits, mice and monkeys with no effects. And within minutes the volunteers were withering on the floor with agony.
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/aysha-akhtar/animal-
experiments_b_4209541.html)
“elephant man trial”
We shouldn’t want to live in a world where we rely on the suffering of animals to benefit ourselves. The animals can’t wait and I can tell you what you can do to help.
Satisfaction Step: The easiest and most realistic way each one of you can make a difference is by avoiding animal tested products. Now that we are in college away from home we do a lot of our own shopping it’s important to know where our products came from.
The App Cruelty Cutter helps show you animal tested products vs non-animal tested products.
Even if you feel that changing your shopping habits might still be out of reach maybe you can start by avoiding the main companies that support animal abuse like Dove, Windex, Vaseline
and

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