Cons+-+Introduction

Animals have been debated over for a period of time. People have two sides, that of Pros, and of Cons. One person stated that “Humans beings are accorded rights on the basis that they are able to think, and feel pain. Many other animals are able to think (to some extent) and most certainly feel pain. The Pros of Animal testing are that we can see how disease, chemicals, treatments, and cosmetics affect them. One article stated that animals can be used as test subjects for products, chemicals, diseases, and the treatments for diseases. Animals also have similar tissue organs, eyes, body parts, and mostly can have the same disease that humans do. The better the test subject ( I.E: a chimpanzee) the more reliable the results are. On the flip side, animals have rights, just as humans do. We are simply a step ahead of them in the food chain, but we evolved from them. Currently, technology can represent a model of an animal, and do a computerized test, so that no animals are harmed in the process. “Animal experimentation is the scientific study of life processes in animals to advance biological knowledge”. “The used test subjects of rats and mice may exceed 100 million “subjects”. “Cosmetics, drugs, and chemicals are used and reused on animals until the said substance is accepted by the FDA”. These are both relevant debates, and both can sway someone to their side. Here, both sides will be shown, so that both are equally persuasive. So in the end, we can tell that animal testing, is not always beneficiasl to humans. Animal testing is wrong because of the death toll, the way animals are treated, and the misuse of the ability to test on animals.