Persuasive Essay Against Animal Testing

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Every Year, 26 million animals are experimented on in the United States (“Should Animals Be Used for Scientific or Commercial Testing?” 1). These rodents, reptiles, birds, and primates are forced to endure terrible pain, hunger, suffering, and even death; yet, almost every medical breakthrough in the last century is thanks to the sacrifice of each of these creatures (“Forty Reasons Why We Need Animals in Research” 1). Although animal testing is a controversial subject that questions the morality of subjecting animals to painful experiments, it is a very necessary operation that takes place in today’s society, and is to thank for the countless human lives that have been spared. Millions upon millions of animals are used annually in research

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