Animal Experimentation: The Pros And Cons Of Animal Testing

Imagine being confined in a cold cage, trembling, isolated and deprived from the outside world you once lived in; suddenly realizing your life is now in the palms of a large human in a white lab coat. Every year in the United States, more than 25 million animals partake in biomedical experimentation, product and cosmetic testing, and science education (Neavs). With countless effective, reliable, and beneficial alternatives relating to the human species for which the drug is for, there lies a question of why we continue to forfeit millions of innocent animal lives. Let alone being unwillingly imprisoned and inhumanely treated, animal experimentation costs not only innocent lives but delay of discovery in medical research and debt up to millions of dollars.
One of the biggest and most frequently mentioned counterarguments claims that animals experimented on don’t experience pain, so testing is therefore justified as humane. As an article in People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals states, “In addition to the actual pain of experiments, an honest view of the situation for animals in laboratories should take in account the totality of the suffering imposed on them, including the stress of capture, transportation, and handling; the housing in confined and unnatural conditions; the deprivation that constitutes standard husbandry procedures; and the physical and psychological stress experienced by animals used for breeding, who suffer through cycles of impregnation to only have their young torn away from them, sometimes immediately at birth” (Peta).
As it is impossible to measure exactly how much pain animals are in during procedures, it is easy enough to conclude that a combination of fear, stress, and physical and emotion trauma ca...

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...ganization, structure, and function of human organs and organ systems. These chips could be used in replace of animals in research of disease, drugs, and toxicity testing. They have been shown to closely replicate human physiology, disease, and drug responses more accurately and reliably than animal tests (Peta).
Moreover, cruelty-free products are more environmentally friendly. Toxicity testing highly contributes in adding to the worlds waste. Researchers breed, experiment, and dispose millions of animal subjects as hazardous waste that slowly adds to our damaged environment (Neavs).
In conclusion, there are numerous alternatives to animal experimentation that could better science research with more effective, reliable, and accurate techniques, and create a faster lead to new breakthrough discoveries while saving money and innocent animal lives in the process.