Animal testing has been in our world as early as the 1920’s according to an online article titled, “Product Testing: Toxic and Tragic”. Studies show that it is the law for products to be tested on animals before they are released. More than half of the animals die, and half the products that were tested do not even work. The animals that do survive do not get treated to get better, they get put to sleep. In an online article, it also tells us that 92 percent of the drugs tested on those animals “fail in human clinical trials because they are too dangerous or don’t work” (11 Facts About Animal Testing). This makes animal testing very unreliable and also very unnecessary. Although it is the law for drugs to be tested on animals, it needs to be put to a stop. According to Do Something’s “11 Facts About Animal Testing” again, “Over 100 million animals are burned, crippled, poisoned, and abused in U.S. labs every year.” One of the biggest problems with that is that even if the animal is not harmed from the test, most of them still get put to sleep. That number infuriates me. They still die, yet nothing is wrong with them. Not to mention, research tells us that animal testing is also very expensive (Pros and …show more content…
I loved that cat as if it was my own; Mishu was practically mine because of how much time I spent with him. When I moved away to Texas, Mishu stayed with my grandma at her house in Chicago. Every time I would go to visit her I would run to Mishu. I spent as much time as possible with that one cat. One summer I went to visit my grandmother, and of course, all I did was stay home and play with Mishu. He was the most adorable and loving cat I’d ever had. That summer he turned eighty years old. Eighty! I never thought of his age because I loved him so much. That summer, God decided to take another precious animal with him. I cried for days. I didn’t want to eat, I didn’t want to go out, I simply wanted to stay home and