Persuasive Essay: Should Animal Testing Be Stopped?

Animal testing is a widely discussed topic. It is believed to be a way to tests our products that is cruel and inhumane, it’s not though. It has been recorded that only 6% of the animals tested have experienced pain. Do you or someone you know want to have a cure for cancer or have a kidney transplant? If you do, the only way that we are able to do kidney transplants or help people that have cancer is by testing different procedures on animals. We need animals for testing to become better in the medical field. Animal testing should not be stopped; it is important and has helped medicine come so far and has helped saved many lives. Without animal testing we wouldn’t have as much medical knowledge that we have today. Claude Bernard, known as the ‘Father of Vivisection,’ believes that we need animal testing to gain medical knowledge by experimentation(Sun). Animal testing has helped us discover penicillin, insulin, many vaccines, etc. It has also helped …show more content…
Apparently the USDA surveys the total number of animals in pain that are used for animal testing in the U.S. They claim only 6%of the animals being tested are in pain. That is only 6 out of every 100 animals. If people are concerned about that then no one should be able to have an animal because some animals are abused by their owner. The only difference is in a laboratory. Many people today say that animal testing is cruel and think that it should be stop. They believe that we have other ways to test products like computer modeling or tissue culture. The only problem is that when you use tissue culture you can’t get a full body reaction. The problem with computer modeling (use a computer program to test chemicals) is that it doesn’t show how a living body will react. There are alternatives but you wouldn’t be able to get a good test to make sure it works and is safe, so instead of killing animals it would start killing