Argumentative Essay: The Pros Of Animal Testing
Cross your heart, hope to die, stick a needle in your eye
Awakening with a large needle in your eye, you realize you have been stripped from your mother and thrown into a small cold cage. A few hours later, you begin to go blind: something grabs you, another needle is pierced into you once again, and you start to fade away. Countless animals awaken to the same grim fate. They have no idea what is happening or what they did to deserve this treatment. Every day, every hour, and every minute, a laboratory test animal dies from horrible product testing. It is estimated that 72 animals are needed for just 1 product to be tested (“Proctor & Gamble” 2). While medical capabilities have advanced to the point where a cure for cancer could be right around the corner, yet an ancient practice is still being exploited. Old traditions die hard, but there are many alternatives that are starting to catch on that could end animal testing and at …show more content…
Cell-based human in vitro is used for toxicity screenings for drugs, chemicals, cosmetics, and consumer products (“Alternatives to Animal Testing”). Organs-on-a-chip are quite different in the way that they are devises that have human cells that are 3-dimensional and imitate a person’s organs. It can be used for disease studies, toxicity, and drug tests. Antibodies were originally used to inject cancer cells into mice, but now are produced with DNA that is artificially made in laboratories or taken from human cells. The varieties of scans are used to scan the regions of the brain and how it is affected. A single neuron can be studied and then researchers can “induce brain disorders using transcranial magnetic stimulation” (“Alternatives to Animal Testing”). Even though the explanation of these tests may seem very technical and confusing, they are the new wave of help for the
Awakening with a large needle in your eye, you realize you have been stripped from your mother and thrown into a small cold cage. A few hours later, you begin to go blind: something grabs you, another needle is pierced into you once again, and you start to fade away. Countless animals awaken to the same grim fate. They have no idea what is happening or what they did to deserve this treatment. Every day, every hour, and every minute, a laboratory test animal dies from horrible product testing. It is estimated that 72 animals are needed for just 1 product to be tested (“Proctor & Gamble” 2). While medical capabilities have advanced to the point where a cure for cancer could be right around the corner, yet an ancient practice is still being exploited. Old traditions die hard, but there are many alternatives that are starting to catch on that could end animal testing and at …show more content…
Cell-based human in vitro is used for toxicity screenings for drugs, chemicals, cosmetics, and consumer products (“Alternatives to Animal Testing”). Organs-on-a-chip are quite different in the way that they are devises that have human cells that are 3-dimensional and imitate a person’s organs. It can be used for disease studies, toxicity, and drug tests. Antibodies were originally used to inject cancer cells into mice, but now are produced with DNA that is artificially made in laboratories or taken from human cells. The varieties of scans are used to scan the regions of the brain and how it is affected. A single neuron can be studied and then researchers can “induce brain disorders using transcranial magnetic stimulation” (“Alternatives to Animal Testing”). Even though the explanation of these tests may seem very technical and confusing, they are the new wave of help for the