By: Anali Marquez

There has been a huge debate whether we should keep testing on animals for the benefit medical research. Or abolish the torturing of these animals. Many scientist have saved million of lives with using animals to experiment on them. This has been an issue that has been going on for years and has not been decided if it should be abolished forever, or continued.

People miss interpret animal research by thinking that scientist only torture animals for fun and they don’t see that there has been medical advances made from the past till now.

PROS CONS

Helps save lives Ended polio Finds cures for diseases Advancement in

medicine Other alternatives The 3 R’s; Reducing,

Replacing, Refining. Use rats mostly and not

a lot of other animals

Different organs(can react different to the medication)

Torture Killing our lovely animals Hair products and make

up (for our own needs). Mistreated

 Moralistic Fallacy- People who love animals think it’s immoral to kill helpless creatures just for our selfish needs. That we don’t care about the animals and just test and kill them for fun.

Appeal to pity- It is appeal to pity because it wants the readers or the audience to feel sympathy for either the animals that are being killed, or the people who are especially the kids without the medication.

Appeal to emotion- Uses it a lot because it wants to make the reader or audience feel bad. They want they to choose side and fight what they think is right. On either side they choose they use appeal to emotion especially when they relate it to your pets or family.

Reality: People should appreciated the animal testing because it does save million of lives. Since they found the cure for polio they are trying their hardest to find may other cures like cancer and AIDS.

Value: It’s hard to accept that animal testing should be used. To me I don’t like it because I love animals and so do many other people and they want to just keep the animals prote4cted from any torture from humans. Animal experimentation is like seeing an animal die from starvation or being abused and we are doing nothing just watching, so its people fight to end it.

I honestly hate the idea of animal testing. What I picture is just poor helpless animals in cages crying out for help and I cant do anything to help them. It sucks for me because I know there are other alternatives like stem cell research. I think animal testing should stay only for medical purpose and not for make up or hair products. But I really hope that they choose the stem cell research because its hard hearing and seeing what some of these scientist do to the animals. Also the animals can react different to medications than us humans.

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