Household pets are adorable, and animals being tested on is believed a cruel act, but is animal testing really what it is made out to be? Did you know only 4% of all animals being tested on in the U. S. experience pain. Animal testing should be allowed in the United States because, animals often make better research subjects than humans, animals themselves benefit from the results of animal testing, and animal testing has contributed to many life saving cures and treatments. Animals often make better research subjects than humans because of their shorter life spans. For example lab mice live for 2-3 years so they are ideal for cancer research. This is because researchers can study the effects of treatments over lifespans or even generations. Though this is true many people argue animals can suffer like humans do, so it is speciesism to experiment on them while refraining from experimenting on humans. According to Peter Singer from the AWA, (animal welfare act) “Discriminating against animals because they do not have the …show more content…
According to the AALAS (American Association for Laboratory Animal Science) Testing on animals has been instrumental in saving endangered species from extinction including the California condor, black-footed ferret, and the tamarins of Brazil. If vaccines were not tested on animals, millions of animals would have died from rabies, distemper, feline leukemia, infectious hepatitis virus, tetanus, anthrax, and canine poliovirus. We have helped animals who otherwise might not have survived. Many people believe most experiments on animals are flawed wasting the lives of animal subjects. While this maybe true we can improve on this, that reason should not stop people from testing on animals and having many other great improvements come out of it. While there maybe mistakes made in the testing process that would happen in any experiment including if we were testing on the alternative