Animal Cruelty: The Ethicality Of Animal Testing

As of this moment, millions of animals are trapped in cages in laboratories all over the U.S. longing to be free. Animal testing is any scientific testing that animals are forced to undergo that causes pain and lasting harm to the animal (What is Animal Testing). Animals used in experiments are killed or kept in captivity: In animal testing, countless animals are experimented on and then killed after their use. Not only does animal testing not benefit the animal, but testing also is extremely expensive for humans to conduct. Furthermore, animals and humans are never exactly the same and they may react differently to different substances. Evidentially, many of the substances are not used for anything useful after the testing on an animal. Animal …show more content…
Overall, testing on animals for human health has many drawbacks and ill-fated wastes. As talked about previously, animal testing is very cruel, causes enormous amounts of pain, and unnecessarily kills many animals. Also, there can be some living alternatives for testing. It is believed that it is acceptable to abuse animals because their pain is not as important as human pain. This statement is very unethical and proves everything wrong in our world. No matter how beneficial testing on animals may be to humans and new medical findings, it is inhumane and wrong. Anyone who can just watch animals suffer and be tortured must not have a caring bone in their body. There are ways and alternatives to stop animal testing; however, people have to start caring. If there is another way to find a cure for illnesses instead of torturing animals, would people not side with that alternative? Alternatives to animal testing are known as vitro methods; such as, human cells and tissues (Collins). If these tests are used to benefit humans than it should be human cells scientists are testing on, not animals. Moreover, animal cruelty can be avoided and eliminated saving millions of suffering