Animal Testing Argumentative Essay

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Pictures of little animals with lipstick and other make-up applied to their cute faces, upset more and more people. Experiments on animals has been a hot topic issue. Is enough medical advancement made from these experiments enough to justify the use of animals? In March of 2015, Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee and more than 150 other experts publish a comprehensive report on animal experimentation by the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics that concludes that the practice is ¨ unthinkable" and that ¨In terms of harm, pain, suffering, and death, this constitutes one of the major moral issues of our time.¨ A majority of the public are becoming more opposed to experimentation on animals. Evidence shows that animal testing is not helping humans. People don´t think about the feelings of animals and they have the same feelings humans do. 100 million animals are locked away in tiny cages and tested on every day. Animals should not be seen as tools for humans to´ use and we should embrace non-animal testing. …show more content…
With the new treatment for GBM or glioblastoma multiforme the aggressive tumor that kills 12,000 people a year in the US, they now have hope of living. This treatment would have not been possible without the help of animal research. There is also a possibility to help cure Ebola because of the research done on monkeys. The new brain tumor treatment is a revised polio virus that helps the body´s immune system to fight off cancer cells. Scientists injected the virus into the monkeys before humans because their immune system is close to a human's and the scientists could examine the side effects,since the virus can cause paralysis in humans. The help of animal testing has brought a gift to