Imagine this: You’re stuck in a locked cage and you’ve lost all control in life leaving you powerless over the things that may happen to you. You are incapable of choosing what you have for food, where you live and where you go, who you live with and how you live with them, and worst of all, you’re controlled by superior power, a human being, who makes you suffer pain for reasons you are too inadequate to understand. This is the perspective of a poor innocent animal who has to be a subject in animal testing and experiments. Animal testing is very harmful to the animals, it can be a waste of our money, and majorly fails on the medicine used on humans. Undoubtedly, animal testing is iniquitous. Opposers may argue that testing on animals is a great way to find medicine to cure human illnesses, but the truth is, 92% of the drugs following animal testing fail.
Animal testing has been proven unsuccessful in providing medicine that can help cure human diseases. According to neurologist Aysha Akhatar, M.D. and MPH, over 100 stroke drugs that were effective when tested on animals, failed in humans and this also happened with 85 HIV vaccines. Dr. Richard Klausner, former
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Cruelty Free International states that the US drug industry invests $50 billion in research, but only 6% out of 4,300 international companies involved in drug development have registered a new drug with the US Food and Drug Administration since 1950, which was 68 years ago! PETA’s (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) campaign to get animals out of laboratories has repeatedly shown multiple experiments to be improvident and ineffective. As you can see, animal testing is very wasteful. After all, do you really want the tax money you or your parents send to the government to fund something as horrible and inefficient as animal testing? Even worse, do you want that money to go help harm poor and innocent