Animal Testing

Animal testing is cruel, unnecessary, and disgusting. The results of most animal tests are rarely relevant to humans and are not reliable. It is unneeded in today’s society, considering our technological advancements. More accurate and scientifically superior methods are available, usually costing less and even being quicker to perform. There are methods such as using blood from human volunteers, using artificial human skin (proven by the National Cancer Institute to be a perfect substitute), human cell-based toxicity screenings, microdosing, etc.
Humane treatment of test animals should be enforced and should have always been enforced. Animals are not as unintelligent and meaningless as humans make them seem. We should not think of ourselves superior to them. Life on Earth would and could be drastically different if we continue to mutate, poison, and exterminate animals, insects and marine life. These creatures in laboratories sit in sardine-packed boxes, mutating themselves, slowly developing neurotic behaviors, waiting to endure their next painful test. Why do we think this is right? What if we were in their position?
In a society where it has been decided that humane treatment of animals involved in experimentation is necessary, appropriate guidelines would be as follows:
Animals need to be able to roam freely in a space comfortably
Animals need to be in clean living conditions
Animals must be fed healthy (hormone-free if animals are being used for consumption) food, as often as said animal needs to live happily
Animals must not be harmed in any way
Animals cannot be injured anywhere on company grounds (unless the animals brought harm upon itself, in which case, company must treat the animals wounds)
These guidelines don’t leave companies with much they can do to test on animals so I’m not sure “humane treatment of test animals” could ever be an actual thing. My views of the treatment of animals used for human consumption and animals used for testing are about the same. Although animal testing altogether should be banned, you can’t get rid of animals for food. Even if the animal is going to soon be slaughtered for humans, it needs to be treated and cared for in a kind manner. It needs to be fed natural foods that won’t affect the animal’s health, nor the person who is going to be consuming the product. The animals need to be killed in the “best” and “quickest” way possible (although I can’t think of many ways). We should probably stop mass-producing and mass-killing of animals for food and raise them right so we can get the healthiest product, without all the added guilt.