Although experimenting with animals has advanced what people know about the world today, there are now new methods that do not involve experimenting on animals. According to the article “About Animal Experimentation” by Humane Society International, “Human genome and birth of functional genomics, the explosive growth of computer power and computational biology, and high speed robot automation of cell based screening systems has sparked quite a revolution in biology…predictions regarding human safety and risk are potentially more relevant to people in the real world than animal tests.” (About Animal Experimentation). Methods such as computer biology, genomics, and more have resulted from people trying to find other ways to test for what they …show more content…
If there are other methods other than experimenting on animals, then it is more logical to use them so that animals do not get harmed. By using different methods, animal experimentation could decrease or cease to exist, since there may be opportunities for growth in new, accurate methods. Some companies and institutions have started replacing animal experimentation with artificial human skin or other methods, and their results are still the same or better. The fact that new methods have “sparked quite a revolution in biology” means that countless amount of people can invent methods that surpass animal experimentation results. There should be acknowledgment that animal experimentation may be necessary sometimes, but most of the time, they can easily be replaced by other tests. Another article called “Should Animals Be Used for Scientific or Commercial Testing” states that, “Artificial human skin, such as the commercially available products EpiDerm and ThinCert… can produce more useful results than testing chemicals on animal skin…computer models can predict the toxicity of substances without invasive experiments on animals” (Scientific or Commercial