Animal Testing Should be Outlawed

Every year, there are 115 million animals who die due to animal testing. Their deaths are cruel, unjustified, and in vain. These acts of violence are considered tortuous and inhumane, yet they are still being used everyday for unneeded experiments. Tests are being done for the sake of finding different versions of information that is already known. The question that should come to mind is why are these crimes being continued? It’s an outdated process that proves its dreadfulness each day. Animal testing should begin to be gradually outlawed due to the contributing factors of inaccuracy, lack of necessity, and availability of alternative methods.

A little known fact is that animal testing does not prove a drug or medicine is safe for human use. Many of the health problems afflicting humans like cancer, AIDS, and drug addiction are species-specific, meaning that testing these diseases on animals is impossibly useless (“Problems With Animal Research”). The scientists and companies doing these tests know that the results are far from correct, but they continue to carry them out. The logic is flawed and the reasoning is prejudiced. Something that should be noted is the fact that nine out of ten drugs that appear safe in animal studies go on to fail in human clinical trials (“Problems With Animal Research”). Let’s repeat that. This so called “flawless procedure of testing new medicines” fails ninety percent of the time. Again, what’s the real point of these experiments?

Many argue that animal testing is deemed absolutely necessary by all people considered important. It’s crucial to know that animal studies are not required by the FDA to prove the safety of cosmetics (Miller). This is so essential because it shows that corporation...

... middle of paper ...

...ing back progress in the scientific community (Miller).

When it comes down to it, there’s no reason to defend animal testing. The logic behind it is archaic and weak, the information that’s received from it is useless 90 percent of the time, and it’s uncivil. What happens in science labs to these animals is horrifying and it’s time that it stops. As it has been stated, there are so many different ways to test the safety of a product, and these methods are much safer and more accurate than animal testing has ever been. With everything that is known about animal testing, and all the different things that could be done to stop it, it’s shameful that animals are still being killed everyday. If everyone would take a step towards educating themselves about these injustices and the safe alternatives that are available, animal testing could be stopped once and for all.