Animal

Lindsey Petenbrink
Mr. Cooper
English II
23 May 2001
Testing On Animals
Every year thousands of animals die at the hands of curious scientists. Before they die, they are routinely burned, scalded, poisoned, starved, given electric shocks, addicted to medicines, subjected to near freezing temperature, dozed with radioactive elements, driven insane, deliberately inflicted with diseases such as AIDS, cancer, herpes etc. Their brains and spinal cord are damaged since the use of anesthesia is rarely administrated. So, should this be allowed? NO.
Despite all this cruelty, not a single disease has been cured through vivisection in the previous century. More than a million medicines are marketed each year after undergoing the unreliable test methods. Two of the most famous tests are the Draize or eye irritancy test and the LD50, lethal dose 50 (Patterson, p41). The Draize test is performed on albino rabbits because they are cheap, docile and do not have tear ducts so as to wash away th...