Animal Testing
Dear Editor,
My name is Stephanie Yeh, and I am researching on animal testing. I am going to seventh grade next year, attending Carmenita Middle School. I am willing to inform you that animal testing should stop! To this day, animal testing is just animal cruelty. It is brutal, merciless, and inhumane. Do you think that is ethical? No, of course not! Killing an animal is that same value of killing a human! You may say animals are overpopulated, but look at us!
Animals today are continuously being cut open, poisoned, and forced to live in cages. Scientists have estimated that approximately 20 million animals are used for animal testing yearly; about 15 million of animals are tested for medication, and 5 million of them are used for other products like shampoo, body lotion, makeup…etc. In fact, 2.7 million animals that failed the lab experiments have died annually each year. In addition, the stress that scientists cause the animals can affect the lab experiments, therefore making the results useless. We need to give our respect to animals and not treat them like they ours and just let them go.
What are we doing to help us? Nothing! It is just giving us endangered species, 70 mil animals killed in US labs each yr, in half cases the drugs that are tested on animals STILL end up harming humans! This is not ethical! It just doesn’t’ seem fair! Being a future seventh grader, I say we put an end to this right now! These poor animals are defenseless and weak. It is torture and abuse. Animals have as much life as us than any other human. These animals are going through an enormous amount of pain due to the fact that they were not given painkillers of any sort. Sadly these helpless creatures are not the ones being tested on; they are there only as a source of food for the insects that are being researched on.
However, people who are for animal testing may argue that animal testing has improved and discovered other diseases on which is very understandable. Also human life is worth more than some small worthless animals. It is safe and will benefit us. Also, the animals won’t feel anything either way. I personally respect those who say that, but it would be better if we were the ones that tested it on ourselves which will benefit us.
Why are we the ones that take advantage of these animals, when it is abuse, painful, and millions get killed every year? So, I strongly believe that we should stop animal testing once and for all.
Sincerely,
Stephanie Yeh