You are an animal. You’re trapped in a cage, frozen shaking with terror, this is it. Suddenly an overhead needle pointing towards you about to prick you. You wake up from this terrible dream, a animals worst nightmare, but then you realize wait, we are way past animal testing this is illegal now. Animal testing should be illegal because there are cheaper alternatives, animals are unlike us and the product tested on animals, could be dangerous to us as humans.
There are cheaper alternatives instead of testing on animals. Alternative scientific tests are more reliable than animal testing. For example, “experiments on rats, hamsters, guinea pigs, mice, monkeys, and baboons revealed no link between glass fibers and cancer.” Also, animal testing is mostly more expensive that other options. To illustrate, an unscheduled DNA testing on an animal could cost $32 000.00 when an alternative could cost $11 000.00. Another example is the NHI spends $14 billion of its $31 of its yearly budget on animal testing. Specialized computer models and software programs help to design new medicines. To explain, some computer software's can predict many biological and toxic possibilities of what can happen to a “chemical or potential drug candidate without animal dissection”. If that didn’t get you wanting to put a stop to animal testing after those reasons, I’m sure the next reasons will.
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Firstly, They don’t get a lot of sicknesses that we do. Animals don’t get many types of cancer, big types of heart diseases and a lot more. In addition, most of the animals that are tested on have different DNA from humans. Chimpanzees share 96% of DNA with us but only 2 animals testing labs allow testing on chimpanzees. A Lot of medicines we have today are toxic to animals. For example, aspirin is toxic to a lot of animals, if it had been tested on animals, it would not be sold today. To add on, how can we know if a medicine is toxic to animals, or if it can be toxic to