Animals have been around for several thousand years. Early Greek Physician - Scientists, such as aristotle, (384 - 322 BC) and Erasistratus, _354 - 258 BC), performed experiments on living animals ( Hajer M.D. 1). According to this, we get an idea on how long animal testing has been around for. In recent years, the practice of using animals for biomedical research has come under severe criticism by animal protection and animal rights groups. Being an animal lover, this bothers me because animals should be treated as humans, and this is why I am against animals testing. Although animal testing brings more medical advancement and less human-based experiments, it is an expensive, painful and inhuman way of researching imprecise outputs and at the same time, it is a practice of animal cruelty. …show more content…
Not every institution or laboratory has the money and power to perform these tasks. “A two-species lifetime cancer study can cost from $2 million to $4 million, and the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) spends $14 billion of its $31 billion annual budget on animal research” ( NIH 2 ). With this estimation, we see around how much money it cost to partake of these medical animal exams.” A "rat phototoxicity test" costs $11,500, whereas the non-animal equivalent costs $1,300. A "rat uterotrophic assay" costs $29,600, while the corresponding in vitro test costs $7,200” (NIH 3). Although we may think that the only animal being tested is the rat, it is still an animal and should be treated like any other known species. This amount of money is very valuable and is going to waste on an exam that really is very