Panel: Limit Medical Experiments on Chimps
By Dan Vergano, USA Today
This article describes that issues with using chimpanzees for medical experiments and how more and more scientists are moving away from the use of chimpanzees. The reason being that for the most part they are unnecessary. This is because many other animal tests would work just as well. "If chimpanzees were not available for research, science would still go forward" The author is certainly on the side against the use of chimpanzees, but he doesn’t seem to try to persuade others to be on his side. I think the main purpose of his article is just to better inform people of the topic. For the most part he just sticks to logos, providing information from various professors, doctors, scientists, and activists. The only time he appealed to the audience emotionally was in the first sentence when he included"...chimpanzees, the closest cousins to humans in the animal world..." Overall, his writing was very informational, clear, and concise. He didn't crowd the article with much fluff, not taking as much as a dusting of artistic liberties. Not too much imagery and not a great quantity of figurative language. This author just stuck to the facts, through and through. As to the audience the author was directing towards, it could be anyone who is not well informed on the topic. That seems to pull back to his main purpose, which was to give uninformed people a general idea of what’s going on in the world of chimpanzees. In the end, he has reached that goal, and by informing of the topic, he also will have turned people to his opinion on the topic, whether it was done consciously or not.
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