United States is a country where products are constantly consumed: medicines, products of various kinds, and new products are always in high demand. But before most products are ever given to humans they are first given to animals to insure the safety of one’s health. In the United States alone it is estimated 26 million animals are used for scientific and commercial testing, due to this many animals are tortured, left in unsanitary conditions, and killed involuntarily for a purpose they do not understand. In many places around the world the practice of testing on animals have been banned, and it is a procedure that needs to stop in the United States. Animal testing is cruel and inhumane, drugs passed are not necessarily safe, and it is unethical. Procedures that are used for animal testing, commonly have the potential to cause the animal to have psychological and physical suffering. According to the Humane Society International, common procedures include: forced chemical exposure, food and water deprivation, infliction of wounds used to observe, and are often killed by the end of an experiment by horrific methods. Many cosmetic companies …show more content…
Many of the chemicals used in experiments may be harmful to animals put are proved to be effective in human medicines and cosmetics and vice versa. In the 1950s, a new drug was released called Thalidomide, which was marketed as a sleeping pill safe for pregnant women. Before the drug was released it had been tested with many animals, and it seemed harmless and proved to have no side effects in their studies. In 1962 the horrific discovery was revealed, “It caused thousands of babies worldwide to be born with malformed limbs” (History of Medicine). What might work with animals may be severely dangerous to human safety and health, about 94% of drugs passed on animals fail in human clinical