The most common animals used for animal experimentation include fish, mice, rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, and cats. Animals that are being experimented on are almost always kept in captivity. When an animal is kept in captivity it has to change its natural way of life. In the wild, animals experience competition, socialization, and exercise, but when they are in captivity they are deprived of these natural activities. How would you like to be trapped in an unfamiliar place and have strange people inject things into your body that harm you?
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The reaction of a drug or chemical in an animal’s body is not the same reaction us humans experience. Animal testing is unreliable because the animal is in an unnatural habitat and it is under a tremendous amount of stress.
Some arguments that the opposing side could make is that animal testing has helped improve the human health as a whole, but in this process the animal health has decreased. Statistics show that the number of cats in the U.S. used for animal experimentation is 76,430,000, the number of dogs in the U.S. is 54,000,000, and the number of animals in the U.S. that die due to experimentation each year is 19,500,000. Sixty-one percent of all animals that are tested on are not given any painkillers.
Animals that are experimented on are either killed or experience permanent disabilities because humans wanted to know what effects would occur from a certain drug or chemical. It’s not fair that scientist force animals to go through such traumatic events so that we will have more knowledge about a