Write a speech for a school debate supporting the motion that "Experiments on animals can never be justified".
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7. Write a speech for a school debate supporting the motion that “Experiments on animals can never be justified”.
Last year over 200 million animals worldwide were poisoned, scalded, burned, turned into drug addicts or alcoholics, given diseases such as cancer or arthritis, crippled, blinded, starved and brain damaged this is the price we pay for animal experimentations. As members of the human society we live by moral codes designed to protect our weaker members. We take care of the sick, the disabled and punish those who are violent towards others, these qualities are part of being human, but we have a darker side. A selfish cruel side that is responsible for destruction and violence. It is due to these aspects of human nature which vivisection (animal experimentation) appeals. We experiment on animals because they are powerless to stop us and we count their pains as unimportant when measured against our own interests, we live unhealthy lives and make animals suffer in the search of cures for our ills. We even see the production of a new lipstick or oven cleaner as a good enough reason to inflict pain on animals.
The experiments carried out on animals are painful, they are shocked, burned alive, maimed and poisoned till they die, like us the animals have an advanced nervous system, even so there are still tests which measures the pain, they are put on to hot metal plates, dipping their tails into boiling water and injecting acid into their stomach so that when the stomach bursts, the acid in the stomach that itself produces would literally “eat” and “digest” the animal itself.
