Animal testing has been around for centuries, it started out to be for curiosity reasons; people wanted to learn more about the internal construction of the body, and animals were convenient--more so than humans. The word animal testing and animal research are interchangeable, both relate to the same thing: the experimentation that is carried out on animals. Louis Pasteur was one of the scientists who made the first major use with animal testing. While his conclusions were beneficial, that was back in 1880, a lot of technology has advanced since then. Although animal testing has been used for biomedical research in the past, now, in 2015, animal research has been concluded to be cost ineffective, increasingly inaccurate, and most importantly, how inhumane animal testing really is.
The government spends countless amounts of money every year, that is a given, but many people are not aware of how much of it is spent towards animal testing. On average, the government spends 14.5 billion on animal testing ("Feds Spend up to $14.5"). Michael
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When compared to the in-vitro test--a process taking place in a test tube, culture dish, or outside of a living organism, is a lot less expensive. A commonly done test is the non genotoxic cancer test, which can take a full year to come to a conclusion. Using rats, it takes $700,000 to complete. The in-vitro test doing the same procedure, takes around $22,000 dollars to complete. That is $678,000 saved on that one test, if been done using in-vitro testing. That may seem like a small amount but it is the taxpayers who pay for the wasting of funds on a project that is starting to run dry of benefits. Some tests take months or years to get the full “accurate” results, and after years of researching, and spending millions of dollars, the results may come out to only work in that specific animal while failing in human