Animal Testing Has Become A Big Part Of Society Today But Still Has Its Worth Questioned
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Animal Testing Has Become A Big Part Of Society Today But Still Has Its Worth Questioned

Animal testing can be good or bad for the animal, but why do we even take that risk?

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Animal Testing Has Become A Big Part Of Society Today But Still Has Its Worth Questioned

Medical researchers, cosmetic companies, and others often perform experiments on animals. Because of that, "Over 100 million animals are burned, crippled, poisoned, and abused in US labs every year." That is 100 million animals that could have had their own life if those medical researchers, cosmetic companies, and others did not perform experiments on them. In my opinion, it is completely wrong to test products on animals. It is wrong because these animals could have lived their own lives, and testing on poor innocent animals is simply cruel and inhuman.

Animals are a part of this world just as humans are, but people are not testing on other people, they are testing unknown drugs on animals. However, in a way should not the animals get a chance to live in this world without being filled up with unknown drugs?

I believe the answer is yes because one day the animals are going to be gone from this world because of these tests. In the past, there have been three mass extinctions, and currently, we are on the verge of another one, and part of the problem is these animal testing. Now do not take my word for it National Geographic's says, "Applying the same statistical approach to extinction data revealed a rate of 100 to1,000 species lost per million per year, mostly due to human-caused habitat destruction and climate change."

The quote explains that animals are definitely going extinct and one of the many causes is the humans constantly testing on them. Animals deserve better than to be used for animals testing. If a human wants to volunteer for this stuff, they have to sign a consent form, but animals do not even get that. It is completely unfair, and I completely disagree with animal testing.

As I said before, I am against the idea of animal testing. The first reason for this is that the animals that have been and are being tested are not even related to humans. There have been tests done on animals like reptiles, and those animals are not even a common ancestor of the human. This will cause the subjects to end up being unreliable, and as a result, the products that have been tested on these animals may not end up working on humans.

"The FDA reports that 92 percent of drugs approved for testing in humans fail to receive approval for human use. This failure rate has increased from 86 percent in 1985, in spite of all the 'advances and refinements' intended to make animal tests more accurate." If we look at these data in another way, only about 8% of drugs that pass tests on nonhuman animals also supposedly work on humans." After killing all of these animals, only eight percent of the drugs that worked for the work on the human, proving that the drugs that may work on animals, may not work on humans.

In conclusion, animal testing should be gone. It is killing the animals, causing them not to get a chance at an actual life. In addition, animal testing has caused many animals to go extinct, and many of the animals currently suffering do not even deserve it because they are not even related to the human's DNA. To me, animal testing is completely unfair and should be stopped quickly because if it is not, many more animals will suffer.

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