Satire On Animal Testing

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My life is living in a white walled, confined cage, not knowing what kind of torture I’m going to be put through next. Maybe I will be picked and prawned at by the man in white with his cavalry of tools. Maybe I will be blasted with unnatural amounts of radiation. Maybe I will be ripped apart just so the man in white can see what is happening inside me. Maybe I will be injected with a substance, with unknown effects. That’s the thing… I don’t know. I don’t know what will happen to me. There is one thing I am certain of… I am a stage four terminal lung cancer patient and I am willing to go through absolutely anything to get healthy once again. In a world in which 20 000 human beings die of cancer every day, it would be a cruelty to not engage…show more content…
When a person is unsure on whether or not that they will live to see their next birthday, the last thing that they are worried about is if the treatments that they are taking, that is fighting a war inside their body, was tested on the animals in a humane way. Animal testing is a benefit to society. It has saved countless lives with the how much it has contributed to medical research and has ensured the general public’s safety with how it has played a major role in the rules and regulations of food, drugs and cosmetics. The abolishment of animal testing would mean that researchers would not be able to find drugs and treatments for medical purposes. Animal research has played a pivotal role in virtually every major medical advancement for both human and animal health in the last century. From antibiotics to blood transfusion, from dialysis to organ transplantation, from vaccinations to chemotherapy, bypass surgery to joint replacement, it has been proven that practically every modern day protocol for prevention, treatment, cure and control of disease is all attained through animal research. Many diseases that once killed millions of people every year are either treatable or…show more content…
Although those who seek to end animal research – either because they choose to reject its well established usefulness or because they believe the life of a rat is equal in importance to that of a child – persist in their efforts to sabotage medical research with break-ins, thefts, arsons, harassment and intimidation of researchers, there can be no question that there is a great need for animals in medical research to prevent deadly diseases, to ensure the safety of the general public of unstable cosmetics and household products that are used every
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