Why is animal testing used? There are many factors that play a huge part in why animal testing is still used and are a good way to get good results in research. The biggest part why it’s still used is that many people claim that animals is just like us, and according to studies, mice and rats (that are 85% of the animals that are used) are indeed very alike us humans, also chimpanzees and other monkeys are very alike humans. Animal testing has also resulted in major medical advances development of antibiotics, vaccines, and surgical techniques, which is very good.
Even though animal testing have resulted in great development in medicine it’s still a method that is very painful for the animals. Every year more than 19 thousand animals is used for animal testing. PETA (People for the Ethical …show more content…
The whole thing depends on your own morals and what you think its right. A lot of people does not consider animal testing bad because it’s helping humans a lot in research and it results in a lot of good things. Other people don’t like animal testing because they think its bad for the animals and that it’s not morally right. There are a lot of alternatives and other methods that can be used instead of animal testing and experimentations. According to me, animal testing is something bad and we should try hard to change the way of experimentation when there’s other ways that also is very