Persuasive Essay On Animal Testing

Over 100 million animals are burned, crippled, poisoned, and abused in United States labs every year. (1) Animals have been used since the 1920s to test the safety and effectiveness of drugs and vaccines in the United States. Animals are the sweetest and most adorable things in the world, I don’t know one person who doesn’t like animals. Companies are taking animals like mice, birds, rabbits, guinea pigs, and even some cats and dogs to test their products. They are hurting animals and killing them when they are done using them. Product testing on animals should be illegal because the products the company's use hurt the animals, and there are safer and easier ways to test all the products.

It’s hard to believe that over 100 million animals are hurt every year. Some companies are so cruel that they just leave the animals to die or forget about them. Sacramento Bee said that “Three baby mice were found sealed alive in a plastic baggie and left unattended.” (2) No one was paying attention to them, making sure they were okay and still alive, or anything. They probably forgot that the poor baby mice were still

The experiments are flawed, which means we are just wasting the lives of animals.(2) Some animals body structure and cells are so different, that it could actually harm people. In the 1950s, there was a sleeping pill called thalidomide that cause 10,000 babies to be born with severe deformities and this pill was tested on animals. (2) When they tested them on the animals, there were no birth defects found unless they were given extremely high doses. Ninety-four percent of drugs that pass in the animal tests, fail when it is used for human clinical trials. (2) The Animal Welfare Act doesn’t even protect rats, mice, fish, or birds. That is ninety-five percent of animals used. (2) Which, again, proves that this isn’t fair for animals and is a pointless way to test