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Why Should Animal Testing Be Banned

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Imagine being a helpless creature lying in a cage just waiting for the day that death comes to visit and takes you out of your misery. Animal testing should have been banned everywhere because of the detrimental effects to the animals, including the inhumane living conditions and the poor treatment towards them, as well as not using alternate methods, and the lack of consideration towards their basic rights.

Animal testings is barbaric and for what, it is a proven fact that a 92% of experimental drugs that are safe on animals end up failing on human clinical trials. As well these helpless creatures are kept in horrifyingly tiny and filthy cages. As if the dreadful conditions they live in aren't enough they go through painful and gruesome tests, and some are even killed in the process. Some activist fighting for the end of animal testing say that these inhumane conditions and treatments are put upon them because of speciesism. Speciesism is said to play a major role in the treatment of these animals. It is said because the human species thinks that they are superior or better …show more content…

It is unfair if you think about it, how knowing that there are other ways of testing drugs or cosmetics they still go with the easiest but least assuring way. Alternate methods for testing experimental drugs are offered every day and are being created every day as well. Some of these methods are the chemosynthetic liver, nanosensors, and stem cell research. All of the alternatives mentioned are just tossed to the side by scientist. Some scientist say “maybe one day we will stop animal testing” while others say “that these innocent lives of animals taken everyday are in the name of human safety”,but in reality it is all just a lie to make it look like they care for the animals well being. So it is time that we step up and fight for these animals

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