On a national level, animal testing and abuse is very common. Animals are just like every other living thing whether they look like us or not. They have feelings, organ systems, and ways to communicate with their kind. These animals can feel all the tests they are put through no matter if these tests are for medicinal purposes or cosmetic purposes. It is estimated that 25 million animals are used for testing and research per year. These animals have no way to tell the scientists conducting tests on them to stop, or that they are hurting and they can’t take the pain anymore. These animals are innocent and have done nothing to deserve the torture they go through while they endure these countless experiments. An alternative for testing on these animals could be to test on criminals. While the US accounts …show more content…
The rest, however, will be in a dark, unsanitary cell until the day they die. If the criminals who were not ever going to be able to leave jail were used for testing, less innocent animals would die. These criminals would be able to repay their debt to society by offering themselves to be used for testing. Many people would consider this as “cruel and unusual punishment”, but if the animals that are tested on never have done anything to deserve it then that’s cruel for them to be tested on. The criminals who won’t get out most likely committed murder, major theft, committed an act of rape or something else that they are guilty of and deserve a punishment other than just sitting in a cell everyday, or dying by the electric chair or a lethal injection. Those “punishments” aren’t helpful to anybody and they won’t get us anywhere by continuing to use them. It’s obvious that we won’t be able to cover the 25 million animals with the few thousand prisoners that are on death row or are sentenced to life, but every major change has started with a small act to set it in