Animal Testing
By: Clarissa Messina
Why shouldn't animals be used in animal testing?
Animals can't choose to be used in testing!
Animal testing is inhumane!
The physiological effects are barbaric on the animals!
Animals have feelings just like humans do, they can feel happy, sad, lonely, scared, distraught, and just about any other feeling humans feel. When people test these animals it's as if they forget that the animals have feelings too. They breed animals to have physiological disorders just so they can be used to test out new drugs. For example, new born monkeys are taken away from their mothers shortly after they are born so they can develop even more mental illnesses. Once the monkeys are separated, they are then isolated, traumatized, and scared so bad that they begin to tear out their own hair and bite themselves. The mothers of the babies also react in a similar way. While all this is going on the monkeys are being given experimental drugs to see if their behavior changes. If that isn't inhumane then I don't know what is! The people testing the animals really don't realize that animals have feelings too. They don't care that their actions are affecting animals feelings also. I don't think that what they are doing is fair to these animals.
Animals shouldn't be used in animal testing!
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