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Persuasive Topic Proposal

Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience that animal testing should be banned.

Thesis Statement: Animal testing needs to be prohibited due to the fact that it is cruel, it does not always provide reliable results, and there are viable alternative choices.

In laboratories worldwide, millions of animals are exposed to brutal and cruel experiments that violate their basic rights every year. They are also made to inhale or drink dangerous substances, have foreign items inserted in their bodies, and are given electric shocks, burns, and other painful treatments. During this process, a great number of these animals are tragically killed. Testing on animals is frequently unreliable (Meigs et al., 2018). The outcomes of experiments conducted on animals are not always reliable indicators of how people will respond to a chemical. This is due to the fact that there are significant distinctions between species. Rats, for instance, are frequently employed in toxicity testing; however, since they metabolize medications in a manner that is distinct from that of humans, the results are not always reliable.

There are alternatives to testing on animals that are more reliable and more kind to the animals. In vitro testing, often known as testing on human cells and tissues, computer modeling, and human clinical trials, are all procedures that fall under this category. Because it can more accurately duplicate human physiology than animal testing, in vitro testing is considered to be more accurate than animal testing (Kabene & Baadel, 2019). Computer modeling is also more accurate than testing on animals, and it can be used to anticipate the impact that a chemical will have on the functioning of the human body. Because they enable researchers to see a chemical's effects on humans directly, human clinical trials are the most accurate testing technique.

References

Kabene, S., & Baadel, S. (2019). Bioethics: a look at animal testing in medicine and cosmetics in the UK. Journal of medical ethics and history of medicine, 12.

Meigs, L., Smirnova, L., Rovida, C., Leist, M., & Hartung, T. (2018). Animal testing and its alternatives–The most important omics is economics. ALTEX-Alternatives to animal experimentation, 35(3), 275-305.