Why Animal Testing Is Bad
Why Animal Testing is Bad Europe, which has the largest cosmetics market in the world, along with Israel, and India all have banned animal testing for cosmetics. They also banned the sale and import of newly animal tested beauty products (“11 Facts About Animal Testing”). The US should follow in the footsteps of these countries to help reduce animal testing rates. There are also some alternative testing options that don’t require animals to be used all the time (“In Testing | Alternatives to Animal Testing and Research”). Animal testing shouldn’t be continued, because the drugs produced from it rarely work, it’s cruel and inhumane, and it’s an expensive process. The drugs researchers produce from these tests rarely work on humans. In fact
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(M.P.H., Aysha Akhtar M.D.). There are over 100 drugs that were effective when tested on animals for the treatment of strokes but found ineffective in humans. Also over 85 HIV vaccines were useless in individuals after working in non-human primates (“Animal Testing - ProCon.org”). Yet another case happened in 2013, where a study from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America found that nearly 150 clinical trials of treatments to reduce inflammation in critically ill patients have been undertaken, all of them failed, despite being succesful in animal tests (“Animal Testing - …show more content…
The process costs the government billions of dollars each year. The annual budget for animal research is $31 billion (“Animal Testing Cons: What Every Person Should Know”). Putting that into perspective each United States citizen would need to pay $101.68 each year for this research to be completed (“How Much Is a Trillion Dollars?”). A two species lifetime cancer study can cost from $2 million to $4 million (“Animal Testing Cons: What Every Person Should Know”).
Along with the money, animal tests also cost many animals their lives. The Humane Society said, “Registration of single pesticide requires more than 50 experiments and the use of as many as 12,000 animals” (“11 Facts About Animal Testing”). Over 100 million animals are burned, crippled, poisoned, and abused to the point of death in US labs every year (“11 Facts About Animal
(M.P.H., Aysha Akhtar M.D.). There are over 100 drugs that were effective when tested on animals for the treatment of strokes but found ineffective in humans. Also over 85 HIV vaccines were useless in individuals after working in non-human primates (“Animal Testing - ProCon.org”). Yet another case happened in 2013, where a study from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America found that nearly 150 clinical trials of treatments to reduce inflammation in critically ill patients have been undertaken, all of them failed, despite being succesful in animal tests (“Animal Testing - …show more content…
The process costs the government billions of dollars each year. The annual budget for animal research is $31 billion (“Animal Testing Cons: What Every Person Should Know”). Putting that into perspective each United States citizen would need to pay $101.68 each year for this research to be completed (“How Much Is a Trillion Dollars?”). A two species lifetime cancer study can cost from $2 million to $4 million (“Animal Testing Cons: What Every Person Should Know”).
Along with the money, animal tests also cost many animals their lives. The Humane Society said, “Registration of single pesticide requires more than 50 experiments and the use of as many as 12,000 animals” (“11 Facts About Animal Testing”). Over 100 million animals are burned, crippled, poisoned, and abused to the point of death in US labs every year (“11 Facts About Animal