Enric To Gassiot                                                                                         12/11/2014

English

Writing Unit 4: Are you for or against using animals in experiments?

A lot of scientists or doctors use rats or other animals to test their newest medical discoveries. Many protests against this kind of experimentation have appeared but the government hasn’t made a move.

People in favor of this type of experiments argument that the medical advances have been achieved by using lab rats for tests. Without using rats to prove if some substances can be released to the public market, we wouldn’t have saved as many lives.

On the other hand, a part of the population argues that tons of rats are killed in many suffering ways: many of these tests have resulted into failures and have hurt the poor creatures. That is why they obviously demand the prohibition to test new products on animals whatever the public needs.

                                                              

All in all, I think that these animals suffer impossibly painful deaths and that even by their decease we may be able to save human lives and eliminate more CO2 from being released to the atmosphere, I say that either we stop testing painful methods to animals, or order the experimentations to be always harmless for the animals (which I don’t think is possible by the way).