Persuasive Essay Against Animal Testing

Animals are living, sentient beings. They are defenseless. They are experimented on and injected with test drugs that cause them to suffer unnecessary, excruciating pain. With the rise of new alternatives, animal experimentation should come to an end, once and for all.

There are many reasons against animal testing. One of the most important opposing reasons used by advocates is the morality/ethics of testing animals. Scientists claim to minimize the pain and suffering of the animals however they are still kept in isolated cages where they forced to suffer the diseases and injuries imposed upon them. Many animals that undergo testing end up being euthanised. When scientists believe they have found a cure/vaccine through animal testing, it is usually later proven wrong in human clinical tests.This is because the animals used do not have the exact biological systems as humans and cannot predict how the drugs will work in humans. In the process, a lot of time and money is used with no results. In 2004, it was reported that 2 billion dollars were wasted in the past decade on drugs that failed

CeeTox, a research laboratory, is using human based cells grown in labs to predict the toxicity of drugs, chemicals, cosmetics, and consumer products. These models will replace the need for animal testing and will spare the lives of countless animals. Other advancements such as heart models and computer simulations have the ability to simulate the complexity of cells to test vaccines. These alternatives have proven to be more reliable than animal experimentation. The AAVS(American Anti-Vivisection Society), a non-profit organization dedicated to ending animal experimentation, declared that “reliance on animal experimentation can delay discovery and that animals are used in medical studies due to tradition rather than scientific