Without animal research and testing, millions of lives would be lost yearly. Finding cures for diseases like anthrax, rabies, distemper, feline leukemia, and canine parvovirus helps millions of animals with diseases and cancers (5). Animal testing saves lives of both animals and humans. It advances medicines all the time, showing new cures for a number of different things (1). They show what cannot be used because of dangerous side effects. Animal testing has advanced medical discovery by many years. Animal testing continues to be the reason why we have such advances medicines and cures. A vaccine called polio was found because of animal testing (1). Researchers have discovered many medicines testing on animals for cancer, insulin, antibiotics, …show more content…
We need bathrooms with showers, toilets, and soap. We also want nice food, tasty drinks, desserts, and more. They need beds, blankets, clothes, and hygienic products. Animals on the other hand need food, nothing special, and a warm place to live. The cost of animal testing is about 16 billion dollars a year (9). That includes feeding, and providing space for the animals. That is a lot of money, but times that by the ten other things we humans want and need, the cost would be terrible. The expenses would drive any company bankrupt. Animals share our need for food and shelter, but not for clothing, hygienic things, and house utilities. (9) The amount of penicillin for human is 3,000 times greater than a mouse. Therefore penicillin would not have been discovered. Human can actually suffer worse if we stop animal testing. Why do we test on animals? Blood transduction research is done in testing tubes, animals were used to establish the safety of citrated blood (6). Without animal research many dogs, cat, birds and farm animals would be dead because of 200 million diseases that plague them each year (5). Did you know that we share 95% of our genes with a mouse (3)? Or that humans are mostly related to apes and other monkeys (9). This lets scientists better guess how we will react to certain medicines, by comparing the results of animals to the results of