When Is Animal Testing Unnecessary

As stated by Tom Regan, a professor at North Carolina State University, "Animals have a basic moral right to respectful treatment...This inherent value is not respected when animals are reduced to being mere tools in a scientific experiment”. Animal testing for new beauty products and medicines is a cruel and morally wrong process that occurs to thousands of animals daily. Not only does animal testing go against basic animal rights, it is also unreliable and completely unnecessary as majority of the medications and products that are deemed safe to use through animal testing are dangerous to use on humans and other, cheaper and less cruel methods of testing products and medications have been discovered.

Whilst a part of the animal testing industry, animals such as mice, rabbits and fish are forced to live in tiny cages surrounded by other afraid and suffering animals. Such captive animals are subject to force feeding, forced …show more content…
For example, in glass testing such as the study of cells within a petri dish, can produce more reliable and relevant responses than animal testing as actual human cells can be used. This significantly reduces the risk of unreliable results as the researchers can see the direct and indirect effects a chemical, medication or beauty product has on human cells, rather than animal cells which have a different biological make-up. Animal testing is also extremely expensive and time consuming – the testing of chemicals using animals can take up to five years per substance and cost millions of dollars, while non-animal alternatives, such as the aforementioned glass testing, can test hundreds of different chemicals in a week for a fraction of the cost. It is completely unnecessary to use animal testing in these mordern times when there are so many cheaper, quicker and cruelty-free