The United States experiments and tests on an estimated number of 26 million animals annually, for the purpose of scientific research. The outcome of these tests are used to create medications, determine the safety of human-use products, and many other medical, profitable, and health care uses. Gathering research from a living animal is a practice that has been done for hundreds of years, but now in the modern world society is questioning whether this practice is safe and humane. While the idea of animal testing may be challenged, this method is the most optimal source of research for medical advances and should continue to be practiced.

Animal testing has allowed for the development and advancement of many medicines that have been known