Defending Innocents Essay

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Defending Innocents I believe animal testing is one of the most cruel things a person can do to a living thing. It is not acceptable to subject these innocent animals under terrible scrutiny. According to PETA: “More than 100 million animals are tortured and killed each year in scientific experiments”. “Some people say animal testing and experimentation should go on because there is nothing wrong with it if it’s ethically correct, these people are contradicting themselves because they are rejecting the same experiments but practiced on human beings” (PETA). They are agreeing that these experiments are inflicting terrible pain to animals that humans could never undergo. An Australian philosopher states that: “if experimenting with a human baby is not acceptable then it’s not justifiable to experiment with non-human animals cognitively equivalent, because rejecting them in the first case and accepting them in the second would be discriminating against the species which is arbitrary” (Singer). Ron Karpati starts his essay with the following sentence: “I am the enemy. One of those vilified, inhumane physician-scientists involved in animal research” with this he is agreeing people do see him as a villain and accepts how many people repudiate this act. He states “I became a pediatrician because of my love for children and my desire to keep them healthy”. If science is so advanced, why can’t they simulate these testing’s in a computer. Instead of investing millions of dollars in feeding (if they really do) and maintaining alive these experimental animals, why don’t they invest that money in finding a better way to experiment their drugs that doesn’t include animals. PETA states that “the federal government and many health charities waste precious dollars from taxpayers and generous donors on cruel and misleading animal experiments at universities and private

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