Animal Testing

4 Minute Speech against animal testing

We should stop the use of animals for research and testing purposes. Animal research/testing refers to the use of non-human animals for testing or experimenting on. The use of animals for testing is used in the fields of: Biomedical research, security, evaluation, and education of a product. Every year animals are subject to experiments so painful and damaging that no one would ever do them on humans. Deciding whether or not to do animal testing is a tough choice which no one should have to make. We feel that animal testing is harmful, cruel, and unnecessary. We should look at how animals are treated in research and we should work to minimize or eliminate the number of animals who have to suffer through this procedure. Most research stated about 90% of research conducted on animals is performed on mice and rats. It is estimated that 50% of animals tested on annually are killed. This is supposed to be done to make the product safer for the humans and they are simply killing these animals. Researchers estimate animals used in research at well over 100 million. However, no one knows how many animals are used in the United States today because Animal Welfare Act, the legislation requiring the counting of animals in laboratories, excludes mice and rats; indisputably they are the most used animals in the industry. A staggering 100 million mice are estimated to be used in U.S. laboratories alone. Guinea pigs, mice, rats, rabbits, fish, and dogs are the most often used along with cats, primates, pigs, sheep, ferrets, and birds.

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