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Wednesday, 4 September 2013

Speech Animal testing


Imagine being taken to a place where you are locked up, with barely any room for movement, in a small cage. You are taken every once in a while to get your hair shaved off, and things rubbed into you skin that could make your hair never grow back, or it burns you and make your skin bleed. Maybe you could get something put into your eyes for a couple of weeks and you go blind. Good morning ladies and gentleman girls and boys. These are few of the things that happen to animals that are used for testing.

I love animals and have had many pets and if one of them got taken and put into a research lab it would almost kill me. If you saw you pet get taken away and then you find out two days later that they were dead caused by toxic fumes they had to breath in. How would you feel?

Animal testing has been used since the 1800’s. Louis Pasteur used chickens to develop his small test which saved countless lives, but with the times changing and technology ever advancing there is little need to continue to test on animals.
Every year nearly one hundred animals die in research laboratories at the hand of curios scientists who perform outdated and inaccurate tests that prove no benefit to humans or animals. Before the animals die, they are routinely burned, scalded, poisoned, starved, given electric shocks, addicted to drugs, subjected to near freezing temperatures, forced to inhale toxic fumes and driven insane. Their eyes are surgically removed, their brains and spinal cords damaged, and their bones broken. Despite all of this cruelty not a single disease has been cured through medical testing on animals. The overall adult cancer rate has risen in the past 40 years and a fatal heart attack strikes a person every 45 seconds. Drug testing on animals is inaccurate and does not benefit humans or animals at all. Animals including, dogs, cats, mice, rats, guinea pigs, hamsters, gerbils, monkeys, owls, deer, sheep, llama, and cattle are commonly used in animal testing.

So what do the scientist do to make sure these animals have the finest quality of life? First they make sure they are comfortable enough by having several of them in one small cage. Then they physically and mentally damage them in the worst way possible. Once they have finished and are done using them the will dispose of them in a huge rubbish bin. Life for them is not fear and should not have to live like that they should be allowed to rome free until they reach an older age when they need caring and then have a loving family to look after them.

Imagine how these animals feel being shoved into cages and tested on. This is something that animals should not have to go through. Animal testing is not reliable and is very expensive. Animal testing is inhumane and now that there are alternatives to this there is no excuse for anyone to still use animal for testing human products. I suggest that governments ban animal testing, so that the world become a better and safer place for both animals and humans. 

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