Persuasive Essay Against Animal Testing

Abraham Lincoln once said, â€Å"I am in favour of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being. † I couldn’t agree more with this statement as I do not believe that animal testing is right and I am totally against it. One of the main reasons I am against animal testing is the fact that the animals don’t have a choice and are being forced to be tested, which can lead to them getting seriously ill or dying as a cause of the testing.Each year in the USA alone, an estimate of 70 million animals are taken away from their natural habitat, blinded, scalded, force-fed chemicals, genetically manipulated, and basically hurt and killed in the name of science, by private institutions, household product and cosmetics companies, government agencies, educational institutions, and scientific centres. That is not right in my opinion and I don’t particularly see how it can be right in any morally correct human being’s opinion. So man y animals experience pain or suffering and can do nothing about it, they are powerless in these situations and that is not fair, it’s not right.According to the Humane Society, registration of a single pesticide requires more than 50 experiments and the use of as many as 12, 000 animals, that statistic angers me and makes me fear for the potentially affected animals if these tests are to continue. To think that some of these tests are for cosmetic products such as make-up, nail varnish etc. leads me to believe that all the pain and suffering caused isn’t necessary and could be reduced to an extent, if not eradicated. If the animals can’t make the choice, then we can’t make the choice for them.Another one of the main reasons I am against animal testing is the undeniable fact that there is alternatives. In this day in age there is no morally decent reason for animal testing to continue as it causes too much pain and suffering for animals all over the world. We should use these alternatives, for example, some scientists are using synthetic skin to measure how drugs travel through the skin of a human, and other scientists are using human cell structures and cultures to test how drugs work, these alternatives  should be used to replace the laws that require mandatory drug and cosmetic testing on animals.I hope that the United Kingdom provide the necessary funding for alternatives such as the ones I just mentioned to replace the current animal testing system. Furthermore, I hope that the whole world changes their laws to replace animal testing with these alternatives as it would benefit so many animals globally, without effect human beings. Why should animal testing continue when it could be prevented and replaced?Does the government want these animals to die? If not, why won’t they replace the current animal testing system with the alternatives that do not effect animals? I think it’s because they are too concerned with t heir own wealth, or else they would not allow this pain and suffering to continue. Nevertheless, there is always two sides to an argument and an obvious one is that animal testing helps researchers to find drugs and treatments, it aids researchers in finding drugs and treatments to improve health and medicine.Many medical treatments have been made possible by animal testing, including cancer treatment and HIV drugs, insulin, antibiotics, vaccines and many more. Those are great findings and have been extremely helpful to humans yet there are still flaws to this point as there is other methods that can be used to discover these drugs and treatments, they don’t necessarily have to be discovered via animal testing, which a lot of the time results in those animals dying with no new discovery found. It is irrational and unnecessary to use animals as a means to an end.It can be prevented. To conclude, I feel that animal testing is not right and I am against the current animal testin g system, which is mandatory by law. I think the fact that the animals don’t have a choice and are being forced to be tested, which puts their life in danger, is wrong. I also believe that animal testing is the wrong thing to do when there are many alternatives that would cause no harm to animals (or humans). Jeremy Bentham once said, â€Å"The question is not, â€Å"Can they reason? † nor, â€Å"Can they talk? † but â€Å"Can they suffer? † – The answer is simple.