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Keyla Walker
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Expository Composition
21 November 2019
If you had to choose between a rat or baby getting tested on, which one would you
choose ? We should test on animals before we can test on humans. Animals are creatures just
like humans, but humans can offer more than animals. Imagine all of the humans’ lives that can
be saved if we test on animals first. Testing on animals have found treatment for Tuberculosis,
Diabetes, High Blood Pressure, Polio, Parkinson's Disease, and Muscular Dystrophy. Animal
testing is neccessary because us humans have to protect the obligations of other humans and
First , animal testing is important because we can catch diseases and find cures on animals
before the disease go to humans. According to Lauren Myers, author of “ Animal Testing Is
Neccessary”, she stated , “ Animal testing is a neccessary practice in the world of medical
problems before new techniques or products make their way to actual patients” ( Myers 257 ).
Finding cures on animals before testing on humans can save plenty of lives. If you automatically
give a non-tested drug to a human, it can make their situation worse or can lead to a major
accident. From the text “ Ethics for Sale”, authors Carl Elliot and Trudo Lemmens, explained, “
Managed by a company called SFBC International, according to Bloomberg, the 675-bed Miami
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testing center has been recruiting undocumented Latino immigrants desperate for money,
housing them in a converted Holiday Inn, and paying them to take untested drugs in studies
overseen by an unlicensed medical director whose degreee comes from an offshore medical
school in the Caribbean” ( Elliot and Lennens 251 ). Companies are paying people to have
untested drugs tested on them, when all the companies should do is test on animals, that’ll be
more reasonable. Many people are putting their lives in danger just to get money. This world
doesn't have a lot of humans just so they can put their life in danger.
Next, animal testing can limit human human suffering. “ There has been severe
consequences when medical products have been brought to market without adequate premarket
testing. One famous case involved the firm Vitek, which exploited a loophole in FDA regulations
to bring a synthetic jae implant to market without adequate testing, ”said Myers ,” Soon after its
introduction in 1983, the FDA began receiving reports that Vitek’s implants were fragmenting in
patients’ jaws, triggering a chemical reaction that literally eroded away their jawbones” ( Myers
257 ). If scientists test on animals before humans, many human experiments would be less likely
to go bad. According to Myers, she also stated, “ A 1984 study of Vitek implants in dogs found
that the implants disintegrated in the canine test subjects and lead to jaw erosion akin to that seen
in human patients. If the FDA has required Vitek to perform this animal study before marketing
this product, the shoddy implants would never have reached patients. Instead, tens of thousands
of people received Vitek’s hazardous product, unaware of its critical design flaws” ( Myers 257
). If Vitek would have tested this treatment on animals before testing it on humans, many humans
would have not suffered with this awful condition. Testing on animals can protect the workers
and people who consume the treatment from the harmful effects of the chemicals.
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Many people argue that we shouldn’t have animal testing because it causes harm to the
animals. According to the text “ Of cures and creatures Great and Small”, authors Claire Andre
and Manuel Velasquez said, “ Animals do in fact suffer, and do in fact feel pain. The researchers
who forced rat to choose between electric shocks and starvation to see if they develop ulcers
does so because he or she knows that rats have nervous systems much like humans and feel the
pain of shocks in a similar way. Pain is an intrinsic evil whether it is experienced by a child, an
adult, or an animal. If it is wrong to inflict pain on a human being, it is just as wrong to inflict
pain on an animal” ( Andre and Velasquez 261 ). Testing on animals cause pain, but imagine the
pain a human will feel to get tested on. Humans have sensibilities that are much more highly
developed than animals. Claire Andre and Manuel Velasquez also stated, “ The debate over
painful experimentation on animals enjoins us to consider the wrong fullness of inflicting pain
and the duty to respect the lives of all creatures, while also considering our obligations to
promote human welfare and prevent suffering, animals aside” ( Andre and Velasquez 263 ).
Animals make good research for diseases and the effects of the treatment.
Animal testing is necessary because us humans have to protect the obligations of other
humans and limit human suffering. Animal testing is important because we can catch diseases
and find cures on animals before the disease go to humans. Despite the testing hurting the
animals, animal testing would be the best solution for testing medicine and drugs. There are
many more animals to test on than humans, so let’s limit human suffering and human
experiments.
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Works Cited
Andre , Claire. “Of Cures and Creatures Great and Small .” Viewpoints, by W. Royce. Adams,
Elliot , Carl, and Trudo Lemmens. “Ethics for Sale .” Viewpoints, by W. Royce. Adams,