Imagine living inside a locked closet without any control over any aspect of your life. You can’t choose when and what you eat, how you will spend your time, whether or not you will have a partner and children. You can’t even decide when the lights go on and off. Think about spending your entire life like this, a prisoner, even though you have committed no crime. This is life for an animal in a laboratory. It is misery. If you don’t know what animal testing is it is any scientific experiment or test in which a live animal is forced to undergo something that is likely to cause them pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm. injecting or force feeding animals with potentially harmful substances, exposing animals to radiation, surgically removing animals organs or tissues to deliberately cause damage forcing animals to inhale toxic gases, subjecting animals to frightening situations to create anxiety and depression. They are just a few of the experiments that they test on animals. Animal testing is cruel and can be animal cruelty. …show more content…
An Estimated 100 million animals are used every year in the United States for scientific testing. Research on living animals has been practiced since at least 500 BC. Animals should be free and not locked up in cages to be tested on. But there is one positive thing about animal testing. Animal testing has contributed to many life-saving cures and treatments.The California Biomedical Research Association states that nearly every medical breakthrough in the last 100 years has resulted directly from research using animals. But still, Animal testing is cruel and inhumane. And Drugs that pass animal tests are not necessarily safe. 94% of drugs that pass animal tests fail in human clinical trials so animal testing is unnecessary. So, Over 100 million animals are burned, crippled, poisoned, and abused in US labs every