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Across the nation, there are laboratories filled with caged animals awaiting torture. In these laboratories, animals are being used as test subjects where they are put through agonizing pain and even killed, all in the name of science. It is estimated that between fifty and one-hundred million animals are used each year for testing, and it is commonplace that the animals are killed once the experimentation is finished (Driscoll and Finley). Although Homo sapiens are capable of a much more complex thought and emotion than nonhuman animals, it does not give humans the right to exploit them. The unethical medical and cosmetic experimentation on animals should be ceased, due to the intentional and unnecessary killing of, and the cruel and inhumane treatment of animal test subjects. Animals in laboratories that are used for medical research are subjected to extremely painful and damaging experiments. The cruelest form of experimentation on the animals is vivisection. Vivisection is the cutting into, or dissection, of a live animal. Vivisection is also sometimes used to describe other invasive experiments performed on live animals (Driscoll and Finley). These live experimental surgeries are highly unethical due to the risk of permanent damage or death, and the animal test subjects’ inability to consent to the painful procedures. Several other types of cruel experiments are performed upon animals, many of which would be considered torture if the subjects were human. There are accounts of experiments performed on baboons and other monkeys where the helpless animals were restrained to a table and struck repeatedly in the head with equipment in order to research the effects of whiplash on humans (Wright and Hoagland). Many of the test sub... ... middle of paper ... ...oll, Sally, and Finley, Laura. "Animal Experimentation: An Overview." Points Of View: Animal Experimentation (2013): 1. Points of View Reference Center. Web. 3 Dec. 2013. Greek, Ray. "Monkey Brain Research: The Case Against." BBC News. BBC, 28 Nov. 2003. Web. 03 Dec. 2013. Overell, Bette. Animal Research Takes Lives. Addington: New Zealand Anti-Vivisection Society (INC), 1993. N. pag. Health.org. 2000. Web. 04 Dec. 2013. "Problems with Animal Research." AAVS. The America Anti-Vivisection Society, n.d. Web. 03 Dec. 2013. Rich, Alex K., and Wagner, Geraldine. "Animal Rights: An Overview." Points Of View: Animal Rights (2013): 1. Points of View Reference Center. Web. 3 Dec. 2013. Wright, George, and Steve Hoagland. "Counterpoint: Animal Testing Is Cruel and Immoral Regardless of the Benefits Associated With It." NCLive. North Carolina Libraries, 2011. Web. 3 Dec. 2013.