Animal Testing Is Necessary

Animals do have feelings, thoughts, goals, needs, and desires just as we humans do. Humans need to respect these similarities, not disregard them. Animals are used in laboratories all over the world in order to cure diseases for humans. Many people feel as though this is necessary, although it is not. With an uprise in disease animal testing has been booming. If animal testing is a necessary evil, it must be performed correctly. Too many times is has not. Failed experiments can lead to the death or the harm of an animal, economic costs, and shows just how ineffective it is.

Many experiments have failed and lead to the death or harm of the animals. The experiments have also been prone to be unreliable, “In fact, studies show that if

This can eventually rack up a huge bill, “Rats, mice, and birds comprise over 90 percent of all research animals not because they are necessarily the best and most reliable animal models, but because, in comparison to many other species, they are relatively inexpensive to buy, easy to manage and maintain, and disposable without much public clamor or concern.” (Society N. E.) Animal testing only exists because it, “ is one of the major reasons why the use of animals not only continues, but also is fiercely defended despite obvious limitations, dangers, and the reality that it may not help our battle against human diseases, and might actually hinder it”. (Society N. E.) There are also many downsides to animal testing. It affects people and the environment. Animal testing takes many vigorous hours of research and labor. Animal testing laboratories also have to be observed by Veterinarians and, “All proposals of using animals for research should be approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) that was set up by research facilities.” (G. (2015, August 19))This is another bill that is added onto the tab. People do not realize how truly expensive and laborious animal testing really

People do not realize that humans and animals are not very similar. Putting the animals in an environment that is unknown to them causes them to be stressed out which can skew the results of the experiment. The website, Using Animals for Testing: Pros Versus Cons, says that animals and humans are not exactly the same. This website says that that the reaction of drugs in an animal’s body is quite different from the reaction in a humans body. Therefore making these tests unreliable. It also states that the animals are in an unnatural environment which would cause them stress, leading to the drug reacting differently. The website newspaper article Save the Animals: Stop Animal Testing Expresses that the testing of products on animals is completely unnecessary because viable alternatives are available. The say that many cosmetic companies have sought better ways to test their products without the use of animal subjects. It also says that using synthetic material will turn opaque when a product damages it, closely resembling the way that a real eye reacts to harmful substances. Computer simulators also have been in an upright to decrease in the number of animal tests. They are used to estimate how much damage that product would cause human tissue and cells. Another website newspaper article states that all but very few diseases are specific-unique and the only efficient and effective