Rough Draft for Speech #3: Why Animal Testing is Beneficial to the Human Race

• According to the Humane Society International Animal Testing is defined as the experimentation of animals which normally includes subjecting them to force feeding, forced inhalation, drug testing, lethal dosage testing, food and water deprivation, prolonged periods of physical restraint, the infliction of burns, the infliction of pain, Carbion Dioxide aphyixiation, neck breaking and sometimes decapitation 
• Now here is why this idea should continue to live and be practiced in our society...
• First off, Animal testing is due to many life saving treatments that have saved millions of human lives
• Some of which include Cancer, brain injuries, childhood leukemia, Multiple Sclerosis, and the technological advancements of pacemakers. 
• Some examples of this include experiments such as this one where dogs had their pancreases removed and which led directly to the discovery of insulin which is critical to this day to the treatment of diabetes
• The polio vaccine tested on animals reduced the global occurrence of polio from 350,000 cases in 1988 to 223 cases in 2012 
•  Secondly, humans and animals alike have extremely complex living systems this is important especially when testing drugs, the bodys reaction to drugs requires the testing subject to have a circulatory system and who else to test then chimpanzees who's DNA is 99% identical to human DNA. 
• Third, Humans are not the only ones who benefit from animal testing, Animals also benefit from the testing of other animals. If vaccines and remedies were not initially tested on a small population of animals many others would have died from diseases such as rabies, distemper, feline leukemia, and canine parvo virus to name a few.