Animal Testing Satire
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Right now, millions of mice, rats, rabbits, cats, dogs, and other animals are locked inside cold, barren cages in laboratories across the country. “For days they languish in pain, ache with loneliness and long to roam free and use their minds” (PETA). These animals come from a wide variety of places such as city pounds, zoos, commercial breeders, and even circuses. Did you know that around the world these animals are being used to test products ranging from shampoo to new cancer drugs? In fact almost every medical treatment that you use has been tested on animals. For instance, animals were used to develop anesthetics (AnimalPort). All they can do is sit and wait in fear of the next terrifying and painful procedure that will be performed on them. “The stress, sterility and boredom causes some animals to develop neurotic behaviors such incessantly spinning in circles, rocking back and forth and even pulling out their own hair and biting their own skin” (PETA). Believe it or not animal testing is not required by law, animal testing is only done to protect companies from consumer lawsuits (Zoomshare). Animal testing …show more content…
Animal testing is used to test out things like cosmetics, drugs, food additives, supplements, household products, pesticides, and industrial chemicals. Most of the animals are euthanized after they are experimented on due to health effects caused by the inhumane experiment. Basically animals die due to human errors (Buzzle). Thousands of drugs passed on animal tests hurt humans, and vice versa. For example the helpful medication of Aspirin fails animal tests, but benefits humans. Heart by-pass surgery was held off for many years because it failed on dogs. However, heart by-pass surgery has an extremely positive effect on humans most of the time (Animal Rights
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Right now, millions of mice, rats, rabbits, cats, dogs, and other animals are locked inside cold, barren cages in laboratories across the country. “For days they languish in pain, ache with loneliness and long to roam free and use their minds” (PETA). These animals come from a wide variety of places such as city pounds, zoos, commercial breeders, and even circuses. Did you know that around the world these animals are being used to test products ranging from shampoo to new cancer drugs? In fact almost every medical treatment that you use has been tested on animals. For instance, animals were used to develop anesthetics (AnimalPort). All they can do is sit and wait in fear of the next terrifying and painful procedure that will be performed on them. “The stress, sterility and boredom causes some animals to develop neurotic behaviors such incessantly spinning in circles, rocking back and forth and even pulling out their own hair and biting their own skin” (PETA). Believe it or not animal testing is not required by law, animal testing is only done to protect companies from consumer lawsuits (Zoomshare). Animal testing …show more content…
Animal testing is used to test out things like cosmetics, drugs, food additives, supplements, household products, pesticides, and industrial chemicals. Most of the animals are euthanized after they are experimented on due to health effects caused by the inhumane experiment. Basically animals die due to human errors (Buzzle). Thousands of drugs passed on animal tests hurt humans, and vice versa. For example the helpful medication of Aspirin fails animal tests, but benefits humans. Heart by-pass surgery was held off for many years because it failed on dogs. However, heart by-pass surgery has an extremely positive effect on humans most of the time (Animal Rights