Arguments Against Animal Testing

Did you know a lot of animals are killed in America from animal testing? Animals get tested for products that humans use and most of the time animals suffer or even die. Also using animals shows people from other parts of the world that Americans are cruel. Animals testing should not be allowed, because it hurts and kills animals. Animal tests are more expensive than different methods. They also waste government money. Cancer study can cost two-to-four million dollars but animal research spends fourteen billion of its thirty one billion dollars annual budget on research for animals. Normal study test on illnesses cost a lot of money but it still is lower than what animal testing cost. Animals testing cost a lot and most of the time

Humans have a way diverse body than animals. So, the animals can have a different reaction on products then humans do. First evidence is because humans and animals have a different shape from each other so the test will not be accurate. So, why do scientist think that the testing will work on them and help humans? Animals and humans may have some of the same organs and both have blood but animals are still not equivalent to humans. Secondly because scientist admitted that animals are so different from humans that the results are often useless. Even though someday, maybe, an animal will be able to solve cancer or some kind of disease but scientists aren't certain if it will work, so why waste a life? Another evidence is that “Thomas Hartung, Professor of evidence-based toxicology at Johns Hopkins University, argues for alternatives to animal testing because "we are not 70 kg rats."” (Mieke Louwe, 2017). Hartung makes a good point because citizens are not 5 foot rats. Humans are a lot bigger and have a different structure than most of the animals used for testing. So, the products humans use may not have an accurate reaction on animals that it will on

Scientist should test on human cells instead of animals. A article said that testing would continue for a little bit longer because scientist are not advanced yet to use that for testing. But when they figure it out animals should be free into their habitat and testing should only be allowed on cells. “Microdosing, the administering of doses too small to cause adverse reactions, can be used in human volunteers, whose blood is then analyzed.” (Mieke Louwe, 2017). Using humans is better than animals because humans are able to speak among each other and say if they want to be tested on, unlike animal. Also because the products getting tested on are for humans so it would be an accurate reaction if tested on a