Each year, more than 100 million animals are killed. These animals are killed in laboratories for testing. Before their deaths, they are burned, crippled, poisoned. In addition to the torment of the actual experiments, animals in laboratories are suffering from everything that is natural and important to them, they are forced to live in cages, socially isolated, and psychologically traumatized. Animals who are used in experiments are treated like nothing more than disposable laboratory equipment. Animals should not be used for research purposes and cruel experiments because animals get hurt and killed during these experiments. Animal testing may provide safety benefits of new products, but some of the items that are tested will never be used. That means animals will be sacrificing their lives to determine the safety of a product that a human will never even know was being developed or use. Due to changes in science, animal tests are being replaced in areas such as toxicity testing, neuroscience, and drug development. But much more needs to be done. Caring for an animal requires a large investment. Some of the animals that are used for testing are bought at auction or taken from the wild, which brings additional costs into the process. According to Petfinder, the total …show more content…
That means animal research can be more unreliable than even researchers claim it may be. Several drugs have passed animal testing, but have been found to be harmful to humans. In 2004, the Food and Drug Administration estimated that 92% of drugs that pass their tests, including animal research, fail to reach the market. Recent data suggest that failure rates from animal research to human research could be even higher, at 96%, according to the NIH. Nearly 100 vaccines for Aids showed potential in animals but failed in humans. That means the results that animal research can produce may not be valid for us to