Animal Testing
Dear Editor,
I am Cathy, a seventh grader, writing to you about animal testing around the world. I have many pets such as dogs and rabbits, and I would hate to see them be taken away and tested on.
Animal testing is a very big subject in the world. Animal testing is very unfair. Many poor, innocent animals are being taken into labs and tested on. If you think about it, these animals don’t even know what’s happening to them. They don’t even get a chance to say that they don’t want to be tested on. An estimated amount of one hundred million mice are being tested in laboratories each year in America.
Someone has to put an end to this inhumanity. Ninety-nine point nine percent of the animals in the world have been either tested on or abused. To me, animal testing falls under the category of animal abuse. As you are reading this letter, many rabbits, dogs, rats, bugs, monkeys, etc. are dying, or suffering from animal testing. During animal testing, animals aren’t just being washed with shampoo or being given shots. They’re also being cut open and being forced to live in barren steel cages for years and years.
People for animal testing may believe that the human life is more important. This is understandable, but I have to disagree. I’m not saying that humans aren’t as important. I’m saying that animals and humans are equally important. Both animals and humans have feelings. Try putting yourself in the animal’s place. You would be smothered in some unknown substance called “shampoo”, or covered in makeup. That makeup or shampoo might hurt you. People think that horrible things can happen to them if new products aren’t tested on animals. It’s true, but whatever can happen to the human can happen to the animal.
I strongly believe that animal testing should be stopped. This experimentation is claiming the lives of the many poor and innocent creatures that keep nature balanced.
Sincerely,
Cathy