Animals Should Not Be Used For Animal Testing

Right now, millions of mice, rats, rabbits, cats, dogs, and other animals are locked inside cold, barren cages in laboratories across the countries. They languish in pain, ache with loneliness, and long to roam free and use their minds. Instead, all they can do is sit and wait in fear of the next terrifying and painful procedure that will be performed on them. Animals should not be used for scientific or commercial testing. Technology and science must find an alternative solution instead, because animal testing is cruel and inhumane and most of the animals used in experiments are not protected by the Animal Welfare Act; also, animal tests do not reliably predict results in human beings as animals are very different from human beings and therefore make poor test subjects, and eventually we shall not ignore the fact that animal tests are more expensive than alternative methods and are a waste of government research dollars.
“Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other way.” (Retrieved from http://www.peta.org/international). Animals tests are cruel and inhumane: According to Humane Society International, animals used in experiments are commonly subjected to forced feeding, forced inhalation, food and water deprivation, prolonged periods of physical restraint, the infliction of burns and other wounds to study the healing process, the infliction of pain to study its effects and remedies, and “killing by carbon dioxide asphyxiation, neck-breaking, decapitation, or other means.” (Humane Society International, “About Animal Testing,” hsi.org, Oct. 15, 2013). For instance, The Draize eye test, used by cosmetics companies to evaluate irritation caused by shampoos and other products, invo...

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...emise that because animals are in an unnatural environment, they will be under stress. Therefore, they won’t react to the drugs in the same way compared to their potential reaction in a natural environment. This argument further weakens the validity of animal experimentation. And lastly, the process of testing on animals is, quite possibly, one of the most disturbing experiments ever performed. Almost every product was tested at some stage in its development on an animal. These products go through a long and complex testing process that leaves millions of animals mutilated, burned, poisoned, and gassed in outmoded and unnecessary tests. From these different experiments, animals are often left with different diseases like Syphilis, Herpes, or AIDS. So comparing the amount of animals benefitting from the experiments and those dying from it, you must know the answer.