Have you ever wondered how the world comes up with the newest beauty product or the cure to the latest disease? These are found through experimenting on living creatures for multitudes of time. This animal testing is unacceptable because it’s unnecessary, unethical and unscientific.
It’s unnecessary to test because what works on them does not work on humans. Former director of the National Cancer Institute Dr. Richard Klausner states “The history of cancer research has been a history of curing cancer in the mouse. We have cured mice of cancer for decades—and it simply didn't work in humans”. Treating a disease in an animal doesn’t guarantee it will be cured in humans. It wastes money, resources, and time to fund animal experiments when they
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The Humane Society lists a variety of what happens such as “Forced chemical exposure in toxicity testing..exposure to drugs, chemicals or infectious disease at levels that cause illness, pain and distress, or death..genetic manipulation..ear-notching and tail-clipping for identification..food and water deprivation..infliction of wounds, burns and other injuries to study healing”. These horrendous conditions are not worth the little help testing brings. The severe pain it brings to creatures is unethical.
It’s unscientific to test on animals because the entire science behind it is wrong. “90% of drugs fail in human trials despite promising results in animal tests – whether on safety grounds or because they do not work” (Cruelty Free International). The results from experimenting are inaccurate and unhelpful. It makes no scientific sense to test on animals.
Many claim animal testing helps people understand diseases better yet this simply isn’t true. “Of over 1,000 potential stroke treatments that had been ‘successful’ in animal tests, only approximately 10% progressed to human trials. None worked sufficiently well in humans” (Cruelty Free International). Animal testing rarely works in favor for humans. It helps nothing to test on