Animal Testing Outline

Name: Alice Date:

Title of Paper: Animal Testing is Unethical

I. Introduction

Attention Getter: About 20 million animals are experimented on and killed annually, three-fourths for medical purposes and the rest to test various products. An estimated eight million are used in painful experiments. Reports show that at least 10 percent of these animals do not receive painkillers. How would you feel if any of these experiments were carried out on your pet?

Thesis: We are going to look into the unethical reasons behind animal testing, alternatives to this pointless suffering, and why it should be stopped.

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A. Topic Sentence: Animal experimentation is impractical and inconclusive

B. Examples and Details: Just because a virus kills a mouse does not mean it will kill a human. Lab animals are bred for predisposition to certain diseases, kept in unnatural conditions and exposed to disproportionately large amounts of chemicals or other test substances.

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C. Topic Sentence: Although we now know that animal testing is scientifically pointless and ethically wrong, we continue to conduct tests upon animals

D. Examples and Details: For our own convenience. We can do things to animals that we could not ethically do to a human being. Just because we humans think we are more superior? We know that if we look at the issue too closely, we must inevitably condemn animal testing, and so we turn a blind eye to the ethics of this scientific crime.

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E. Topic Sentence: Many of the tests researchers inflict upon animals are painful and lower the animals’ quality of life

F. Examples and Details: Scientists inject animals with irritating chemicals, genetically manipulate them to cause rare and painful genetic diseases, give them cancer and other diseases, and cause other injuries in the name of science. These animals are not...