Animal Testing And Animal Cruelty

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Animal testing is an experiment in cruelty. Several big corporations use defenseless animals to test their products. This has become a very big problem because it is required by law for a company to use animal testing to ship to China. Imagine someone taking your dog to test out a new brand of shampoo and they returned your beloved pet with no hair. Although someone won’t just show up at your house and take your pet, there is still an estimated 26 million animals used for testing in the U.S. alone. There are more than 115 million dogs, cats, rabbits, monkeys, and other mammals that suffer and die each year, but 80 percent of the lab animals used – mice, rats and birds – are not protected by the Animal Welfare Act, and are not counted. For test labs, animals are seen as a disposable tool. …show more content…

“The anatomic, metabolic, and cellular differences between animals and people make animals poor models for human beings.” (https://animal-testing.procon.org/). Since animals are very different from us, drugs that pass animal tests may not necessarily be safe. In the 1950s a sleeping pill thalidomidewhich caused 10,000 babies to be born with severe deformities, was tested on animals prior to its commercial release. “Later tests on pregnant mice, rats, guinea pigs, cats, and hamsters did not result in birth defects unless the drug was administered at extremely high doses.”

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