Found Essay: Cruelty of Animal Testing

Choice: Agree or Disagree with the author's major arguments

I am the kind of person who is always itching to get out of my comfort zone and try something new. Likewise with this essay I also wanted to try something new. Animal rights are not included in my everyday thoughts. I thought that the essay, "Cruelty of Animal Testing," would be appropriate to become a little bit more knowledgeable.

First off, this is without a doubt a persuasion essay. It starts off by showing the ugly side of animal testing. I do not consider it necessary to touch base on the specifics, but there are lethal dose tests, skin irritancy tests, and eye irritancy tests to name a few.

The first point that the author makes is that tests performed on animals are not consistent with human results. How many lawsuit commercials have we seen on TV asking about deaths or illnesses? A lot. With that given, who can't agree that animal testing is counter productive?

I would like to make an informative addition to this blog. Dogs, rats, and pigeons all have much greater tolerances to nicotine than humans. Since it really is not humane to do lethal dose testing on humans, tobacco companies use animal results to support there products.

There are alternative testing methods to animal testing. The EYTEX SYSTEM, for example, uses prediction methods that are ten times cheaper and 88% more effective than current animal torture methods. Also the attrition route is very common. Animal activists refuse to buy certain products that have been tested on animals. I agree with that fact that it is very feasible to find an alternative to a product that kills.

No one can get away from the fact that animal cruelty will exist forever. However, I completely agree with the arguments brought up in this essay. I think that the current "torture" method is inefficient and is replaceable. This particular generation has earned the title, Generation Kill (no I am not talking about the series on HBO), due to our everyday numbness to violence. Just as easily as we created the title, we can pick up the bottle of shampoo that does not kill innocent animals.