Every year 100 million animals are used for animal testing. Many people test different scientific and other commercial products on animals. This is called animal testing. Animal testing has helped save many lives although it has also harmed many animals. Many tests worked well on animals, but then when tried on humans did not work. There is a lot of evidence supporting both sides.
Many people believe that animal testing is not necessary. To begin with, over eighty five vaccines failed in humans after being tested on animals and, over 100 stroke drugs that were effective on animals have also failed on humans. This shows that there is no point in testing on animals since many of the drugs do not even work. Another reason is, a survey developed between 2003 and 2011 4,451
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“According to Humane Society International, animals used in experiments are commonly subjected to force feeding, forced inhalation, food and water deprivation, prolonged periods of physical restraint, the infliction of burns and other wounds to study the healing process, the infliction of pain to study its effects and remedies, and killing by carbon dioxide asphyxiation, neck-breaking, decapitation, or other means.” (Author unknown, procon.org, last updated on 11/2/2017) This shows that animals that are tested on are treated badly and even killed for experiments. A 2009 survey shows that rats and mice who underwent painful procedures, such as burn experiments, spinal surgeries, and skull surgeries were only provided with pain relief after the procedure 20% of the time. This proves that animals are treated worse than humans because they are not always given pain medication. The AWA(Animal Welfare Act)allows animals to be brain damaged, shocked, poisoned, isolated, burned, and addicted to drugs. This clearly shows that people think they can just hurt animals. This is clear evidence that animal testing is cruel to