Animal Experimentation Getting a shot at the doctor’s office is probably something you have had to do in your lifetime, but before these immunizations were safe they were tested on animals. Since 250 BC, animals have been used by scientists to find the safety of products and how humans would react to them. Animal experimentation should be banned because animals don‘t have any rights protecting them and there are alternative testing methods.
Although they can’t speak, animals can suffer, but they don’t really have any rights to protect them from the monstrosity that is animal experimentation. The Animal Welfare Act, signed into law in 1966, was supposed to be a way to keep animals safe from experiments, only allowing tests that wouldn’t hurt
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16 billion taxpayers’ dollars are spent in the United States annually on animal testing, but there are cheaper, and equally effective, solutions (“Petition”). Scientists are now able to to exercise microdosing, a technique for studying the behaviour of drugs in humans through the administration of doses so low they are unlikely to produce whole-body effects, but high enough to allow the cellular response to be studied, on humans because there is no impact on the test subject (“ProCon”). Not to mention, animals are very different from humans and this produces flawed results. We also can’t understand the animal's reaction to the administered drug, making it impossible to know if the medicine works or if it doesn’t (“Using Animals”). Finally, testing on animals is just plain cruel and very inhumane. The Humane Society International stated that animals are subjected to forced inhalation, forced feeding, periods of physical restraint, food and water deprivation, infliction of burns and wounds and killing by carbon dioxide asphyxiation, neck-breaking, and decapitation (“ProCon”). No living being deserves to be treated this way, especially because there are better