Should Animal Testing Be Allowed

How would someone feel if they were confined in a cage only to experience pain, torture, and isolation for research purposes? We have been doing that to living things for countless years, except not to humans, but to animals instead. We torment animals using unethical experiments, with little to no success. In the USA, billions of dollars is spent every year to fund these horrendous experiments. The National Institute of Health (NIH) supports this cruelty, and funds about 40% of its annual budget as well. But should experimenting on animals be allowed? Definitely not. The results are unreliable, as animals and humans are different biochemically and biologically. It is also a tremendous waste of resources, and finally, animal testing is extremely unethical. The first reason as to why animal testing should now be allowed, is because it is a colossal waste of resources. The government spends billions of dollars to fund animal testing. However, almost no progress has been made in drug development, compared to the astronomical amounts of money used. The USA spends about fifty billion dollars each year for experiments on animals. Despite that, the approval rate …show more content…
Although animals and humans are different, they are both susceptible to pain. Scientists don't normally detain humans in cages and torture them for research, so why do they do it to animals? There are principles of ethics that must be followed during experiments. However, those principles only apply when experimenting on humans, when they should apply to any experiment on any living thing. A better alternative would be to experiment on criminals. Animals have never done anything to deserve this, while felons in our may world have. Although it may still be slightly unethical, it is undeniably better than testing on animals. This way, the justice system can punish criminals for scientific purposes, while keeping animals