Animal Testing Inhumane

¨[M]ice are mice, and people are people. If we look to the mouse to model every aspect of the disease for man, and to model cures, we’re just wasting our time” says Dr. Clifton E. Barry, chief of the Tuberculosis Research Section at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Animal testing has been used for decades in order to test our products on living species, varying from monkeys to rats. Many familiar companies like windex, clorox, and febreze test their products on animals, which can have serious effects. Animal testing should be banned because it is cruel and inhumane, it is futile due to the lack of human relevancy, and there are alternative options. Due to the tests being barbarous and inhumane, animal testing should

Also, the animals often undergo extreme pain and suffering, like breaking an arm or leg, as researchers inflict pain on them to test remedies, often times ending in lost lives. Correspondingly, many animals in the United States are subjected to this torture: “More than 100 million animals suffer and die in the U.S. every year in cruel chemical, drug, food, and cosmetics tests as well as in medical training exercises and curiosity-driven medical experiments at universities” (Peta n.pag.). The large number of animals in the United States dying per year is extensive and outstanding, considering most of the animals die due to the harsh chemicals or body experiments. The animal tests are done for a variety of experiments, but the amount of lost lives outweighs any of the benefits of these tests. 100 million animals dying per year from these serious tests shows how immense the issue is. Supporters of animal testing would argue that the safety of humans is more important than animals, so if the animals are dying, at least it is not humans. Although this may be true, according to ProCon.org, “The anatomic, metabolic, and cellular differences between animals and people make animals poor models for human beings” (ProCon Researchers n.pag.). Testing on the animals proves to lack actual results that can help scientists to create a helpful product or drug because the anatomies of humans and animals are very different, and they react in different ways. Henceforth, testing on animals should not be