Persuasive Essay On Animal Testing

The term "animal testing" refers to procedures performed on living animals for purposes of research into basic biology and diseases, assessing the effectiveness of new medicinal products, and testing the human health and/or environmental safety of consumer and industry products such as cosmetics, household cleaners, and food additives. All of the chemicals and everything that scientists use on these animals have a chance of hurting these animals mentally and physically, and it can cause suffering and distress. Sadly, most of the animals used for animal testing are killed after all of the experiments, but there are some that go through more testing if the first test that they go through does not affect them in any way.
There is a lot of ways that scientists test these animals, some include forced chemical exposure in toxicity testing. Which sometimes they force the animals to inhale a chemical or any kind of chemical going into their body in almost any way. They will expose animals to drugs, chemicals and infectious diseases. They will sometimes deprive the animals of food and water. The worst part is that they will kill the animals …show more content…
There is two main animals that are closest to human DNA wise, and that is chimpanzees and mice. Only two countries allow researching on chimpanzees and that is Gabon, and the United States of America. Most animals are abused and tortured when refusing to do something, even when they are protected under the AWA. my opinion on animal testing is we shouldn’t do it. It’s not right to kill a bunch of innocent animals to see if it will harm them so hopefully it won’t harm us. But since some animals do not have the same DNA humans do it will not help much at all. Also, there is not much support for animal testing and even when there is some support for it is not backed up very well with good information and why they would even support animal testing