Why Animal Testing Is Inhumane?

Animal Testing
Right now, almost 26 million animals are locked inside cold, desolate cages in laboratories across the world. They are in tremendous amounts of pain longing to one-day roam free again. Instead, they must sit and wait in fear until they are used in a painful procedure. After enduring being held captive all alone in a cage, almost all of them will die. They are deprived of food, water, and sleep. Most are even subject to burns and other wounds, or even worse, neck breaking and decapitation. Animal testing is inhumane because most experiments inflict pain to the animal when there are other, more humane alternatives, like in vitro and microfluidic chips.

Most people believe that animal testing is essential for medicine and science to advance. However, this is not the case. The idea that scientists must experiment on animals is being disputed by a growing number of physicians and scientists who are exploiting many research devices that do not harm or kill animals. Physicians and scientists are also seeing the adverse consequences of using one species to provide information about another species proving to be misleading or even harmful
It can do this in days, which would take animal experiments months. Not only is it a lot faster but more cost efficient too. “It is estimated that DakDak can test five or six products for less than half the cost to study a single product in animals. The traditional testing of chemicals using animals can take up to five years per substance and cost millions of dollars, while non-animal alternatives can test hundreds of chemicals in a week for a fraction of the cost.” (Brooks) Cruelty-free tests like DakDak are also more environmentally friendly. Cruelty-free testing is less harmful to the environment because it creates less waste. In toxicity testing, researchers breed, test, and ultimately dispose of millions of animals as hazardous