Blog #1

Blog #1
9/23/2016

                                                                 Animal Testing

The scientific field had became so advanced as the world progressed. A controversial topic that could be found in this field is animal testing. Many live saving drugs are tested through animals. However, labs had been testing the animals in an inhumane way. So inhumane that it couldn't be considered as testing any more, but animal abuse. Animals that are being tested on in labs include: monkeys, rabbits, white mice, and dogs have been suffering from being contained in small cages that can't fit them. Rabbits are having their skins peeled off for experimenting without given any painkillers. Monkeys are chained up and forced to inhale cigarette smoke, for testing the aftermath of smoking. The animals are then left in the labs to die after the experiments. Can you even imagine if the animals that are being mistreated on are your own pet dogs or cats?

However, pet owners probably don't have to worry anymore because labs could choose to replace the animals with an alternative. Other labs have found artificial human skin cells that are produced from petri dishes to replace the animals from suffering. It is a completely beneficial way to solve the problem, because labs could waste less money from purchasing the animals. And they could invest less money and less time to produce the human skin cells. The PETA Organization that is a nonprofit able organization that have scientific data that proves that, drugs that were tested on animals have brought many consumers side effects that could be fatal. The drugs may not have any effects on animals but on humans because of how the DNA structures of animals are different from humans. On the other hand, the human skin cells are more efficient on being out more accurate testing, because they are made from human cells. Labs should stop testing on animals and start testing with skin cells that could bring benefits to the medical field.

There are three strategies from Zinsser's Memoir have been used in the speech. The colon, mood changer, and creditability could be found throughout the speech. The colon are used to list items in a sentence. In this speech, the colon is used to list the animals that are being mistreated. The colon is different from any others such as the dash, it serves its own sole purpose of listing items. Unlike the dash it helps to connect the previous sentence with the next. Colons must be used in this case because a comma couldn't have replaced it, there would be too many commas in one sentence. Mood changers could be also called transition words. Words like however, but, and on the other hand are used to present a different point of view. It was written when the solution of the problem was presented. Zinsser had always said that no one is going to believe you if you had no creditable resource. The creditable source that was put into the speech would be from the PETA organization, that is a non profit governmental organization, where they protest about animal abuse and animal testing.