Although testing on animals for human purposes has been around for a very long time it is cruel and unnecessary. About 26 million animals are used every year for testing in the world, animal testing has been going on forever it could seem like. It has been dated back centuries ago to the ancient times of Greek and Romans. Animal testing has been going on since around 500 BC. Aristotle and Erasistratus were the first to start experimenting on animals. In the early 1950s Animal testing started to expand. We use animal testing because humans don’t want the chance of risking their own lives to see how things react to a living species. Animal testing is inhumane and needs to be stopped.
Science do many test on animals to see how they could react, and if humans were to react the same way. They are many types of testing animals; such as eye irritancy which is putting chemicals in animal’s eyes to see the irrational effects. Acute toxicity, which is a test that determines the danger of an exposure to an opening of the organ system. Skin corrosively, which is putting a substance on the skin of the animal to see the irration and damage to the skin. Skin sensitization is to see if different chemicals cause allergic reactions to the animal and there are still different types of testing animals could go through if its needed. These test cost up to billions of dollars and the animals get burned, blinded, poisoned and killed.
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Millions of animals die every year for animal testing. Animals and humans are two different species, there are products that are very harmful for animals that are good for humans and vis versa. There are alternatives to animal testing yet we still are hurting animals every day for it. There is human based micro dosing, human- patent simulations, and sophistical computer modeling that are very accurate alternatives from animal testing that are cheaper and