Animal Testing Is Necessary

Over 100 million animals are held in captivity and tortured in the U.S. just to make better products for humans. These animals are forced to test anything from beauty products to even having their organs removed to test medications. While animal testing (or experimenting) is the study of how non-human systems react to certain medicines or products, it has gotten out of hand in the past few years (Yashiki). It is the government's responsibility to ban animal testing which should be stopped all around the world, starting in the United States. Although people say animal experimentation can save human lives, the testing is ineffective and doesn’t always work on humans which is a big risk. Animal testing should be ilegalized everywhere because animals …show more content…
For example, the life of an animal that goes through the experimentation may suffer serious effects on their behavior, mind, and could be like that their whole life (Schweers). This evidence shows that animal testing should be banned because these long term effects could cause animals to have a shorter and unfulfilling life span. The testing can traumatize these animals that don’t deserve this treatment. “Between the testing of a new chemical compound on cell structures in a laboratory and the first time that compound is given to a live human, it will most certainly be administered to mice, rats, rabbits, and perhaps even a non-human primate,” (Nogrady). This evidence shows that animal testing should be banned because now companies don’t even think to give a product straight to a human before an animal. These actions could continue and get even worse if not stopped now. Overall, the testing is very harmful to animals and they are not treated …show more content…
Testing on animals have been saving lives if patients with brain tumors by being able to test a new way of medicine, before actually using on a patient that already has little hope of surviving (Trull). Although some people have argued animal testing saves lives of sick humans, the experimentation process can be ineffective and work on animals, but not humans. “According to The US Food and Drug Administration, 9 out of 10 drugs that pass animal tests fail in humans because they don’t work r are dangerous,” (Schweers). This proves that animal testing should be banned because if medicines/products are working fine on animals but can end up hurting humans, there is no point in risking 2 different lives. In all, there could be a few benefits to animal testing, but there are mostly

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