Medical Testing on Animals is Considered Animal Cruelty

Research on living animals has been practiced since at least 500 BC. Over 25 million animals are tested in labs every year. They are used for medical and scientific research. The animals used in research often undergo cruel experimentations and suffer through the pain. During medical testing, less than 2% of human illnesses are seen in animals, therefor medical testing on animals is cruel and pointless. Medical testing on animals should be illegal because products that pass animal tests end up harming or killing humans about 61% of the time.

Medical testing on animals is considered animal cruelty and is unnecessary. "Many animals are used in scientific and medical research. They often undergo cruel methods of testing and suffer greatly as a result." (Animal Experimentation: Cruel and Unnecessary) Opponents of animal testing say that it is cruel and inhumane to experiment on animals, that alternative methods available to researchers can replace animal testing, and that animals are so different from human beings that reserch on animals often yields irrelevant results. Innocent animals are tested on every year. Some are experimented on and are then killed after their use, while others, are kept alive and are kept in captivity. In more than 1,000 laboratories across the country, monkeys are addicted to drugs, cats are deafened and have holes drilled into their skulls, sheep and pigs have their skin burned off, and rats have their spinal cords crushed. Tiny mice are made to grow tumors, nearly as big as their own bodies, kittens are purposely blinded and rats are made to suffer seizures. Dogs are intentionally poised with experimented drugs, chimpanzees are infected with debilitating diseases and rabbits have grotesque devices implan...

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...cally tested on, results do not come out accurate because of the differences between animals and humans. A study showed that there was no possible way to find a cancer treatment among animals because that animals and humans are so much different from each other. I think animal testing is useless and

In conclusion, animal testing is cruel and unnecessary. Scientists realize that testing drugs on animals is inaccurate and useless. "A growing number of doctors and scientists worldwide are pointing out the fact that animal research is totally useless and that its misleading results frequently prove counter-productive and damaging to human health."(The Human Victims: Animal-based Medical Research) Medical testing on animals is useless and should be stopped. The results from testing on animals is usually inaccurate and it is unnecessary to test on innocent animals.