How would you like to be held down and injected with a chemical just to see if it would be safe for someone else? Well, this happens to millions of animals each year even though the likelihood of the medicine being successful on humans is very low. When the medicine doesn't work on humans, then every animal that was hurt or even killed from being tested on is wasted. We have less time consuming and more cost efficient ways to test new medicines, but humans are slow to use them. The medical community should eliminate the use of animals to experiment new medicines on because it has a low success rate of working on humans, many animals are killed each year, and it cost more money than alternate methods.
The medical community should eliminate the use of animals to
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The PETA agrees that a large number of harmless animals are exposed to painful experiment resulting in death each year. According to the PETA “Each year, more than 100 million animals—including mice, rats, frogs, dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs, monkeys, fish, and birds—are killed in U.S. laboratories for chemical, drug, food, and cosmetics testing; biology lessons; medical training; and curiosity-driven experimentation” (PETA). In other words, way too many animals are killed each year due to medical testing reasons. If this many lives are wasted each year why have we not moved on to alternate methods permanently. The United States department of Agriculture reports that just in new jersey alone 102,124 animals were used in research in 2015. Almost every state in the united states test on animals but new jersey was one of the highest with 102,124. If new jersey has such a high number of animals use for such a small state is mind blowing. Humans need to find an alternate method quick before anymore animals are