Expanding Beyond Animal Experimentation Even though animal testing was the best method for testing cosmetics and medicines in the older days, today it is an outdated, ineffective, and abusive method. Many people would say that humanity would not be like it is today if it was not for the use of animal testing. It is hard to say that animal testing was never useful, but it was not always necessary. However, with technology advancements, animal testing is no longer morally acceptable. Animal Testing is an outdated method. There has been much development in the scientific world, causing animal testing not to be necessary anymore. For example, “Europe has banned the sale of animal-tested cosmetics products. In addition, a Europe-wide directive …show more content…
These methods include vitro testing, computer modeling, and human volunteers. These methods also tend to be cheaper and faster as well as more accurate. Vitro testing is basically creating plates of cells that represent human organs. “Harvard’s Wyss Institute has created “organs-on-chips” that contain human cells grown in a state-of-the-art system to mimic the structure and function of human organs and organ systems”. (PETA) The chips can be used in disease research and drug testing. They have shown to replicate human physiology and disease more reliably than animal experimentation has. Today, there are a wide variety of tests that can be used to find out the safety of different drugs and cosmetics. In computer modeling, researchers have found a wide range of computer models that can simulate human biology. Many studies have shown that these tests can accurately predict if a drug will positively or negatively affect a person. There is also testing being done with human volunteers today. The method is called “microdsing” and it can provide information of the safety of a new drug before it is used in large scale human trials. The volunteers in these experiments are given very small dose of a drug and are carefully supervised to see the effects of the drug on the