Animal Testing

by HamiltonPotterNerd

Why animal testing is WRONG!!!!

All the facts are entirely correct, and I am not changing my mind about this topic no matter what!

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Introduction

While some people say that household cats kill more animals per week than animals tested in the
U.S. every year, the real point to consider is that we have no right to test animals in a way that we
wouldn't test humans.
First of all, animal testing is incredibly expensive.
Also, animals and humans are never the same.
Most importantly, the animals are tortured and made to suffer both in ongoing tests and in
between testing.
I believe that our world would be more humane if there was no more animal testing than
necessary, and suggest that scientists work on finding alternative ways of testing products.

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Reason #1

First, animal testing is very expensive.

From a study, $16 billion of government money is spent annually for animal testing to continue.
The animals must first be bought, then fed, housed, cared for, and injected with the
experimentation product.
That's not all, that is only for one test, testing may occur more than once.
Most testing is less expensive without animals.
For example, according to a study, a phototoxicity test without rats is about $1,300, and is about
$10,000 less than a phototoxicity test with rats.
These proven facts just go to show that animal testing is extremely costly.

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Reason #2
 Let's not forget, animals and humans are never the same, so animal testing is extremely
unreliable.
For one thing, it has been proven that over 94% of drugs that claimed to pass animal testing failed
in human trials.
An example of this would the sleeping pill, Thalidomide.
Thalidomide was tested in pregnant rats, mice, and guinea pigs with a reliable result, and birth
defects only with extremely high doses.
When tested on pregnant women however, the pill resulted in over 10,000 severe baby
deformities of too short limbs and hands that were "flipper-like."
Another example of this would be the arthritis drug Vioxx.
These animal tests also showed perfect results, but when performed on humans, it arose over
320,000 heart attacks, strokes, and sudden cardiac deaths.
This evidence from http://connectusfund.org/16-integral-pros-and-cons-of-animal-
experimentation, just proves that animal testing is unreliable.

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Reason #3

As I stated before, animals in animal testing are tortured both in ongoing tests, and in between
testing.
An example of this is that in March, 2009, the Humane Society of the United States found 338
possible violations of the Animal Welfare Act at the federally funded New Iberia Research Center
(NIRC) in Louisiana.
Some of these possible violations are:

Some primates at NIRC were enduring so much mental stress that they would tear holes in their
own body.

Video footage at NIRC shows baby chimpanzees being coercively removed from their moms.

Video footage shows baby primates being entirely awake during excruciating experiments.

Video footage shows chimpanzees being unnerved, then shot with a dart gun.

Another example of animal torture, according to http://www.vitaeducation.org/wp-

content/uploads/Animal-Testing.pdf, when rabbits are being tested to assess cosmetic
susceptibility, their eyelids are held open by clips so they can't blink away the emolument.
Sometimes they are even crippled to safeguard that it doesn't move.
One last fact, in 2011, at the University of California's Davis Center for Neuroscience, someone
found three baby mice alive, and sealed inside a plastic baggy left alone on a lab counter.
All those facts show how inhumane animal testing really is.

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Discrediting

Some people might think that animal testing is good because "household cats kill approximately 5
million animals each week - more than the total number of all animals used in medical research
each year." According to
http://www.understandinganimalresearch.org.uk/about-us/science-action-network/forty-reasons-
why-we-need-animals-in-research/.
They say this proves we don't test very many animals compared to how many animals a cat kills.
When I researched this though, I found this:
"Each year, more than 100 million are - including mice, rats, frogs, dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters,
guinea pigs, monkeys, fish, and birds - are killed in U.S. laboratories."
This fact proves that household cats do not kill more animals every week than animals tested in
the U.S. every year.

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Conclusion

In conclusion, animal testing is expensive, unreliable, and inhumane.

Websites also have incorrect facts about how household cats kill more animals per week than
animals tested every year in the U.S.
So, I wish that scientists will soon invent a new way to test products instead of using animals.