Argumentative Essay On Animal Testing

Animal Experimentation The use of animals in laboratory experimentation is unethical and strongly against animal rights. The abuse that animals are forced through cannot be justified when an animal is unable to sign it’s life away for testing. Millions of animals are murdered or left debilitated because of something against their own will. The experiments are severely graphic and painful, even for the smallest of tests.
“Huntingdon Life Sciences is one of Europe 's biggest testers of animals. They kill approximately 75,000 animals each year, with 87 percent of these animals being rodents” (Murnaghan 1). Over 30 million mice are used in research facilities across the world, which makes up most of the animals being used in experimentation.
They are used in tests for Botox in many laboratories. After being paralyzed by the injection of Botox their body goes into shock and they are unable to breathe. If it looks like the mouse will not survive a researcher will take it out into the hall with a pen. The researcher will roll the pen over the mouse’s upper body trying to snap its neck and end its pain. Most of the time, however, the back is broken instead of the neck and the mouse will lay on the floor in pain as the nerves for it twitch. The mouse then has to suffer worse pain than the botox would have ever caused as they wait for their death.
Rabbits, like mice, are used in Botox as well. The Botox is injected into the main vein in the rabbit’s ear. Many times, the rabbit will jump or the researcher will miss the vein. The researcher will continue to attempt to stick the rabbit in the ear until either the researcher succeeds or the vein ruptures leaving it useless. If the vein becomes useless then the rabbit is killed and thrown into a garbage bag and left for dead in a trash
After the Animal Welfare Act was passed, many aspects of animal testing have gotten much more humane. Organizations such as PETA have no interest in simply compromising with animal testing. They will only be satisfied once animal testing has been completely abolished. Signs of protest are posted on benches near laboratories, and activists stand outside to protest against the scientists that are going to and from work.
Because of the animals not listed in the Animal Welfare Act, there is no way to even estimate the amount of animals used, abused, and killed in animal testing. Rodents are the most commonly used as test subjects since they are under no type of protection. Many tests performed on these types of animals are not legally required tests for the projects and cause unnecessary suffering to the animal. There was an artist named Jacqueline Traide that was so dedicated to ending animal experimentation that she decided to undergo a day long roleplay of what an animal has to go through. She sat in a window of a building for everybody in London to see. Abused to the point of blood and tears, she was treated like an animal. Her goal was to force herself through all the pain just to show the people who know very little about animal testing what an animal has to go through in the