Flaws Of Animal Testing

Despite the significant medical findings made through animal experiments, there are substantial flaws to animal experimentation as well. First, animal experiments can lead to deceptive results and incorrect conclusions. Animals are different from humans, therefore, they would make substandard test subjects. The anatomy, metabolism, and cellular make-up between animals and people are different making animals abominable models for products that are meant for human use. Animals testing also does not reliably predict results in human beings. Statistically, 94% of drugs that pass animal tests fail in human clinical trials (AFAAR). With animals being very different from humans, animal experiments can lead to false conclusions. For example, according to neurologist Aysha Akhtar, over 85 HIV vaccines failed in humans after working on animals, and over 100 stroke drugs that were effective when tested on animals have failed in humans. …show more content…
According to Humane Society International, the animals that are used in experiments are regularly subjected to force feeding and inhalation, food and water deprivation, prolonged periods of physical restraint, the infliction of burns and/or other wounds to study the healing process, the infliction of pain to study its effects and remedies, and killed by carbon dioxide poisoning, decapitation, breaking their necks, or other forms of killing (Humane Society International). Animals can suffer like humans do, therefore it’s speciesism to experiment on them while we eschew experimenting on humans. All and any suffering is undesirable, whether it be directed towards humans or towards animals. Animals subjected during animal testing go through pain and suffering at the hands of researchers during testing. These animals are poked, burned, poisoned, and deprived of basic needs, infected with lethal diseases, addicted to drugs and brain damaged all in the name of scientific