Animal Testing Outline

Animal Testing.
General Purpose: To persuade.
Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience that animal experimentation for the human profit is unethical and other alternatives should be found.
Central Idea: Alternatives solutions are the best way to prevent animal testing cruelty and lawsuits.
Introduction:
I. I have a riddle for the class: What was once pretty and bristly but becomes a bloody rotted mess? The answer to this riddle is an animal that has undergone experimentation. This wasn’t a bit funny but I needed for a sort of an eye-catching question in order to underline the unethical treatment of animals during chemical tests.

II. Currently I am a senior biologist and I know through my three years experience in research studies that animals are overly abused and treated none properly.

III. Animal experimentation, for the benefit human beings, is not only cruel, it is also useless; safer alternatives to animal testing should be kept today in order to preserve the beauty of the environment.

IV. Today, I will first discuss the cruel injustice of animals during history, then discuss the major ways of how research on animals is wrong, and finally persist on the solutions to animal testing by announcing the different alternatives.

Body:

I. The history of animal cruelty.
A. Animal cruelty during early history.
1. The 17th century debate: Animal has no reasoning as humans so they can suffer.
2. The vivisection started during this period.

B. Animal cruelty during modern history.
1. Animals in Cosmetic practice.
2. Animals in The Draize Test
3. Animals in the LD50 Test

II. The major ways that describes animal’s cruelty.
A. The first major way is the excess abuse of animals.
1. Animals are injected with toxic chemicals
2. HTPS test that describe the status of the animal: animals could be reused for other tests?
3. Radioactive materials injected in animals.
4. Electric shock used to train dogs.

B. The second major way is the amount of unnecessary experiments.
1. The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas example.
2. Dogs’ lungs were removed and they were forced to run.
3. The dogs are killed and their lungs are examined.

III. The Alternatives to Animal testing.
A. Animals are protected through laws.
1. The Animal Welfare Act signed in 1966 that determines the appropriate treatment of animals in research and by dealers.
2. California, New Jersey and New York laws in 2000, 2007 and 2008 respectively to limit the use of animals in tests.

B. Animals are protected by organizations.
1. Alternatives Research Development Foundation is an organization that won a lawsuit which requires expanding Animal Welfare Acts to include rats, mice, and birds In addition to chimpanzees, cats and guinea pigs.
2. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) promotes the use of methods other than animal testing.

Conclusion:
I. On a closing note, I would just like to re-mention that animal cruelty started as early as the 17 century till today.

II. Animal testing is an aspect of immoral treatment of animals for the so called “human benefit”.

III. And finally I wanted to reinforce on alternatives that had already been taken to prevent non-human animals from being subjected to the brutality of scientific research.

IV. After all, if you were a mice or a rabbit, would you like to be tested upon by dangerous chemicals?

Bibliography:

Smith, T.(1998, March). Animal Testing - Alternatives - Cruelty-Free Living. All For Animals Newsletter. Issue #1.
Regan T.(2004). The Case for Animal Rights: Updated with a New Preface. University of California Press.
Fano, A.(1997). Lethal Laws: Animal Testing, Human Health and Environmental Policy. Zed Books.

Bibliography: Smith, T.(1998, March). Animal Testing - Alternatives - Cruelty-Free Living. All For Animals Newsletter. Issue #1. Regan T.(2004). The Case for Animal Rights: Updated with a New Preface. University of California Press. Fano, A.(1997). Lethal Laws: Animal Testing, Human Health and Environmental Policy. Zed Books.