Animal Testing: Necessary Or Inhumane?

Charles Darwin a 19th-century English naturalist once said, “The only difference between humans and other animals was a difference of degree, not kind” (Levine). These words brought Americas and Great Britain’s attention to the use of animals in testing and the inherent cruelty of it. The French Philosopher, Rene Descartes, believed that “animals were incapable of feeling pain” (Levine), but Darwin’s idea brought about that animal testing is inhumane, does not benefit humans, is inconsistent, inaccurate, and costly.
No one is sure of the exact numbers of how many animals are used solely for scientific testing but the estimate is around 14 million to 100 million a year (Levine). Those numbers do not include other testing such as cosmetics, product safety, medical research, and education research. Each year thousands of animals …show more content…
These protesters believe that primates have similar genetics, characteristics, and ability to think (Corthran). Though they may have similarities there is no way to get a one hundred percent accurate reading which is needed to prescribe and use correct products. Protesters also say that animals are protected under the law during experimenting. Though there is no many laws that protect animals while being test on. There is countless events on the terrible conditions where animals are being mistreated while testing and be killed for they were unable to continue testing (Corthran). Pro-animal testers also think that this will have improve and enhance protocols in the system. While it may help them look at what is going on there has been no changes in the system in years. (Frommer) The Animal welfare act and Animal health inspection act is trying to stop testing and close down experiments while they inspect so that later they can monitor or shut them down all together. In the end animal testing is bad and should not be allowed