Essay About Animal Testing

Did you know that 92% of drugs that were tested and ruled as safe and effective on animals fail in human trials, and the small percentage that is actually safe for humans is often relabeled due to side effects that weren’t discovered in animals (11 Facts about Animal Testing)? Yet, for some unknown reason, scientists still continue to test different things on poor, defenseless animals, every single day. If the fail rate from animals to humans is 92%, what makes them think that humans still benefit from killing animals just to test our medicine or products? If we create something new, we should be the ones to test it, and we should be the ones to risk our lives. I don’t recall any animal ever signing up for their own murder. Over 100 …show more content…
Most of the time, the experiments are undertaken strictly because of curiosity and do not try to promise to cure anything. So let me get this straight, because someone is curious, they can torture and kill a vulnerable animal? I am completely outraged! If it were up to me, I would take all the scientists who felt the need to torture animals, and torture them. Animals can feel pain, just like humans. Animals bleed, just like humans. Animals die, just like humans. The only difference is, animals can’t protest like humans, but I guess that makes it okay, right? That’s what scientists want us to believe. According to Animal Testing is Bad Science, “Human clinical and epidemiological studies, human tissue- and cell-based research methods, cadavers, sophisticated high-fidelity human patient simulators and computational models are more reliable, more precise, less expensive, and more humane than animal experiments.” This means that scientists have many other alternative testing methods to get the information they need without the use of animals. This just proves that using animals is not only unnecessary, but just plain