Animal Cruelty: The Benefits Of Animal Research

Ever since I was little I have always been interested in the study of biology. I used to watch various cartoons that often included a mad scientist that would experiment on various creatures in the laboratory to enhance the creature’s physical abilities and create a mutant race to assist in their plot to destroy the world. For this reason I often hated the idea of animals being used in laboratories when I was little, but as I grew up and gained exposure to the real world, I realized things in the laboratory were not so bad and animal research offers many benefits. Findings from studies have influenced many advancements in the medical field which lead to cures being found for many diseases. I have even experimented on some animals such as dissecting …show more content…
The writer of this article advocates for animal rights. The major interest the author had in writing this article was to prevent the chimps, who were freed from their harsh testing environment, from being sent back to the same testing facility that neglected them in the first place. This author is credible because he works for a newspaper which has everything edited by another person before being published. This source contains a slight bias because the author mainly points out animal cruelty facts, but the author also references facts related to benefits of using apes for testing because of their similarity to humans. Even with this point however, the author showed slight bias toward support of animal …show more content…
In the sources there are clearly two sides to this argument and either has contrasting views towards the issue, either referencing the benefits of animal testing or the cruelty of animal neglect. The positions of my sources on this issue and evidence supporting their claims influence my opinion greatly because I don’t yet know which side I fall on in this issue. In the future, I may narrow my question to highlight a specific issue that affects both sides on the argument of animal rights to increase the amount of detail about this subject that I include in my