Over 100 million animals are tested every year and most are killed in labs the where they had been experimented on (“Experiments on Animals: Overview”). Animals are used in many ways, such as being bred for specific genes, being used as models to replicate human diseases, and being the test subjects for drugs and vaccines to improve human health ("Biomedical Research”). Animals like dogs, cats, mice, rabbits, pigs, chimpanzees and much more are in isolation in laboratories all over the world getting tortured, sick, and killed all for a test for human medicine (“Harm and Suffering”). However, though some argue their problems are not a valid issue as the animal testing industry is highly regulated. Despite the regulation of medical animal testing, it should be illegal because of the unethical treatment of animals, the unreliable research involved, and the alternatives already available.
One of the biggest reasons animal testing for medicine should be illegal is because it is very unethical. These animals go through physical and mental pain when they are tested on. For example, medical research, involves the animals being …show more content…
Diseases put into animals in the laboratory are usually never the exact same diseases that occur in humans. That limits the possibility of a result that could successfully be used for a human. Scientists that perform tests on animals know that the animal model can never be fully replicated to the human condition ("Experiments on Animals: Overview”). This will lead the patients to false hope in reaching a reliable cure. As over $12 billion worth of taxpayer money is wasted on animal testing to produce vaccines that only 5% get clinically tested and licensed for human use in America alone ("Biomedical Research”). That is a lot of money wasted and millions of animal deaths leading to research that isn’t used for
One of the biggest reasons animal testing for medicine should be illegal is because it is very unethical. These animals go through physical and mental pain when they are tested on. For example, medical research, involves the animals being …show more content…
Diseases put into animals in the laboratory are usually never the exact same diseases that occur in humans. That limits the possibility of a result that could successfully be used for a human. Scientists that perform tests on animals know that the animal model can never be fully replicated to the human condition ("Experiments on Animals: Overview”). This will lead the patients to false hope in reaching a reliable cure. As over $12 billion worth of taxpayer money is wasted on animal testing to produce vaccines that only 5% get clinically tested and licensed for human use in America alone ("Biomedical Research”). That is a lot of money wasted and millions of animal deaths leading to research that isn’t used for