Persuasive Essay Against Animal Testing

Animal testing has been used since at least 500 BC. At the beginning, it was the only way for developing medical treatments; but then after it was also used to check the safety of a product for humans or determining the viability of new medications. Currently, it is also used for checking health and beauty products before launching them. Because of animal testing, many cures and treatments to a variety of illnesses and diseases have been discovered that might have otherwise continued to plague mankind over the years. Without question, animal testing has proven useful on more than a few occasions throughout history. But over the last 20 years, many non-profit organisations have raised their voices to fight against that procedure for various reasons that all of us must consider before having an opinion about this important topic.

First of all, let consider the suffering of the animals used for animal testing. Even if there are special organisations like Animal Welfare Act (AWA) in the United States which represents the federal

Even the animals that do fall under the AFA are not necessarily protected from torture either so it is fair to say that the Animal Welfare Act by itself is not enough to protect the suffering inflicted on animals through some animal testing. As an example, "the statistic points to the fact that 50% of animals used in cosmetic testing die within 2-3 weeks after the experiments" and "most of the time, these are used in the research of the diseases that are not found in them naturally, such as different type of cancers to which humans falls prey or HIV", which means that the have to be subjected to a treatment to be infected first, which can involve pain and suffer