Animal Testing?

Last three weeks, can you guys believe it? I scroll through moodle and ask myself, 

"I've gone through all of those classes?"

The whole semester was such a blur. Last semester was like that too, and I remember so little from my first classes. I don't know if anyone else here feels the same, but I would like to take the leisure time to say that it sucks. Well there's no point dwelling in the past, the end of the spring 2012 semester is here. It's time to make that home-stretch run and finish our first year at CSUN.

Horray! Inspirational paragraph and all that stuff! It was mostly for my self-ish self. So I decided to wrap up this semester by giving myself a challenge: Choosing a final essay topic.

I'm just kidding. Although I'm very undecisive, that wasn't the challenge. The challenge is to write a persuasive/proposal essay about something that people are so anchored with on their side. Gay marriage and abortion are both way too overused and boring. So I decided to write about animal testing.

And I'm in favor of it...

Such a bad idea. Cause people are such animal lovers. I'm not saying it's a bad thing, and I luvs animals 2. It's morally wrong, I get it. But the thing is, there isn't really any other good alternative for animal testing. And its a lot of careful work...

Technology is so advanced, that we can grow a heart or a lung inside of a petri dish. However, that lung or heart does not show the effects of developing medicine or surgeries on the entire body. What is beneficial for your heart could be harmful for the rest of your body.

Another point is that the results of animal testing prove to be useful. With humans sharing 99.4% of their genes with chimpanzees, 99% with mice, and even 90% with cows; we can use animal testing as a closer and safer step to cures and surgeries. Despite the possible outcome below:

We would still be a step closer to the "miracle drug." Animal testing on cosmetics however, that is a whole different story. Scientists could use the skin-in-petri-dish method first and minimize the number of animal test subjects. You only apply cosmetics to your skin, so the petri-dish method would work. It's not like someone is going to put blush on their liver... 

And I'd like to finish this up with one final fact:

No one would protest if scientists were using fishes or cockroaches for animal testing.

I'd like to thank Martha and her friend Jasmine Kim for introducing me to the wonders of tumblr, and it's effects in making everything entertaining and interesting. I use it more for powerpoints and this blog... thingy. 

Thank you for reading!