Essay Against Animal Testing

Millions of animals are experimented on for makeup and house products. Many die from drugs overdose. Some are stuffed in small cages, badly treated, and have open wounds. Monkeys are bred to use their infants as next victims to experiment on. Experimentation should not be allowed, because sacrificing other animals to keep the human race safe is a poor way to do it. Other options, such as technology and volunteer groups.

In 1966, the Animal Welfare Act, known as the AWA, was passed because of animal cruelty in many laboratories. This act changed the way the animals are experimented on and limits how they can be handled. The AWA only protects a majority of species, but others such as mice, birds and rats are not protected. However, the act

Taking animal from its habitat and using him/her to test for new medication and household products is not right. Some of the testing is useless and scientists gain nothing (“List”). Even if an animal passes the experimentation for a new drug or product, it does not mean it will work because the way our body structure is created (“Should animals”).

When using animals, they can range in species from mice to chimps. Ninety percent of rats and mice are used for testing (“Animal”). Rats and mice are too small to be compared to a human; for instance pills were tested on animals and caused many babies to be born with birth defects, and another pill tested on mice caused 30,000 people to have heart attacks (“Klazema”).

Animals are taken away from their habitats and are forced to live in a different environment. Taking animals away can be dangerous, because they have a certain way of reacting such as biting, clawing, and growling. When scientist experiment on the animal, it can cause something to go wrong like injecting the animal in the wrong place. If the experiment goes wrong, scientist get rid of the animal and get another