Speech: Animal Testing

Speech: Animal Testing

Introduction:

Rows of rabbits wait in cages, their heads tightly clamped in stocks to prevent movement. The lower lids of the rabbits’ eyes are pulled back. Technicians drip nail polish remover, mascara, shampoo, and astringent into their eyes, where the chemicals stay for three to 21 days. The chemicals burn and often blind the animals. Rabbits’ sensitive corneas make excellent subjects for this procedure—called the Draize test—because they cannot cry to wash away the toxic chemicals. They have no tear ducts.

First I will introduce the amounts of animals that are being used in these tests and those tests that they are being used for.

Second I will describe what these tests are used to figure out and how they are carried out.

Third I will describe the alternative tests which would make it so that no more animal tests would need to be preformed

Then I will show what these tests really do, not only to the animals forced to endure them but also to the scientists which intentionally harm and kill hundreds of innocent animals of every year.

Finally I will explain what you can do to stop the continuance of these animals deaths.

Problem:

The definition of animal cruelty is the willful, or wanton infliction of pain, suffering, or death upon an animal.

The problem is that as Newsweek magazine reports the lives of 17 to 22 million animals is being sacrificed in laboratory experiments each year. Many of those animals die in the noble search for cures to diseases that cripple and kill millions of people every year. Those animals die for a purpose and with their use I cannot argue. I sympathize with those people that say that they would prefer to lose animal lives rather than human ones ...

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...companies which refuse to stop animal testing. The Coalition for consumer information on cosmetics has made it easier to identify those products with have not been tested on animals by placing this logo on all products which have been manufactured under the corporate standard of compassion for animals. Support those companies, such as Avon and Revlon, which have stopped all animal tests and bear this logo by buying their products.

Conclusion:

Animals are living things, and sometimes in our position at the top of the food chain we forget that we aren’t the only things on this planet that deserves respect and the right to live. We can make the choice to save lives instead of take them. Simply by directing where our money goes we can decide wether to support life, or to support cruelty. Don’t let York and Jersey and their millions of relatives die in vain.