Animal Testing Should Be Illegal

Dogs are a mans best friend, right? We are suppose to be loyal and kind to our friends, why are we treating animals the way we do? Well, it’s illegal to give people new medicines that have not been tested yet, but it’s not illegal to test them on animals! How many times has it ran through their heads that animals feel pain, to make innocent animals like dogs, cats, mice, birds and many more suffer for no reason other than to conduct cruel experiments on them. Animal testing is only another version of animal cruelty which is very illegal! People might think that animal testing is fine because it is only for research and an educational purpose, which is true because people do need to figure things out and learn things others may not get to.
However, I do not believe that animal testing should NOT even be a thing. We have enough medicine in the world so why do we keep making more unneeded pain-relievers, cold and cough pills, don’t we have enough? People need to stop thinking about money and how popular their brand is and start thinking about how many animal lives are lost due to that. An estimate of 26 million animals are used every year in the United States alone for scientific and commercial testing. Proclaimers say that there is no alternative for animal testing but at Procon.org people say different, “ In vitro testing, such as studying cell cultures in a petri dish, can produce more relevant results than animal testing because human cells can be