Animal Testing Should Be Illegal

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I believe that animal testing should be illegal. Animal testing should be illegal because it harms and potentially kills innocent animals. Whether scientists are using animals to test on beauty products, medicine or anything in between, it’s still terrible. Animal testing is considered animal cruelty. Animal cruelty is the crime of purposely inflicting serious pain, suffering, or even death on an animal. Animal testing is helpful for the development of new medicines and cures, however, people now have the ability to test cells in petri dishes which is not harming people nor animals. Even The Food and Drug Administration has said that “92% of all drugs are shown to be safe and effective in animal tests, fail in human trials…”. This proves that animal testing in completely bad science. …show more content…

Think about that. Yes it’s still 8%, but, there is still that other 92%? Thats 92% of tests that have failed. The F.D.A also states that “And of the small percentage of drugs approved for human use, half end up being relabeled because of side effects that were not identified in tests on animals.” This is what angers me. Yes, I understand that you have to test something before you know it works, however, these are people, scientists even that don’t realize ahead of time that humans and animals react completely different to different types of drugs and medicines. Then there is the classic “We don’t want to use animals, but we don’t have any other options.” This is something that is said a lot by people who aren't personally testing on animals but work for the company. The truth is, we already are testing on humans. because if you think about it, there always has to be someone who using the drug first. So technically we already test on humans. People learn from their mistakes every single

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