Persuasive Essay On Animal Testing

Animal Testing Animal testing has contributed to many lifesaving cures and treatments. It helps test products that can be hazardous to human skin, hair, or immune system. Animal testing can also be really cruel and inhumane. Some animals testing for beauty products involve rabbits being incapacitated in stocks with their eyelids help open by clips, sometimes for multiple days, so they cannot blink away the products being tested. Animal cruelty is a very touchy subject. Drugs that pass animal tests are not necessarily safe. The 1950s sleeping pill thalidomide, which caused 10,000 babies to be born with severe deformities, was tested on animals prior to its commercial release. Later tests on pregnant mice, rats, guinea pigs, cats, and hampsters. (Should Animals Be Used for Scientific or Commercial Testing?, 2011) Animal tests do not reliably predict results in human beings. The AWA does not cover rats, mice, fish and birds, which comprise around 95% of animals used in research. The AWA covered 1,134,693 animals used for testing in fiscal year 2010, which leaves around 25 million other animals that are not covered. These animals are especially vulnerable to mistreatment and abuse without the protection of the AWA. Animals themselves do benefit from the results of animal testing sometimes. (The …show more content…
Treatments for animals developed using animal testing also include pacemakers for heart disease and remedies for glaucoma and hip dysplasia. Animal testing has also been instrumental in saving endangered species from extinction, including the black-footed ferret, the California condor and the tamarins of Brazil. Koalas, ravage by an epidemic of sexually transmitted chlamydia and now classified as endangered in some regions of Australia, are being tested new chlamydia vaccines that may stall the animal’s