Animal Testing

Millions of “could have been pets” are being tortured and killed in labs right now because Animal testing is legal. Where do the animals come from that they do these terrible things? The ASPCA wrote in a 2012 article that most of the time Scientists just buy them from respectable dealers. There are two types of dealer’s type A, and Type B. Type A dealers can only sell animals that they have bred. Class B licensed dealers can also sell animals that they got without breeding them. Most of the time, class B dealers get their animals from respectable places, but class B dealers can collect stray animals from the streets. In 31 states, class B dealers can also take animals from animal shelters and sell them to laboratories for research. In five states Iowa, Minnesota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Utah. Shelters are required to surrender animals to any class B dealers who ask for them. Right now, 14 states have passed laws making it illegal for animals in shelters to be sold for research. These states are Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, and West Virginia. It is illegal in all 50 states for stolen animals to be sold or used in research.

Why is animal testing such a terrible thing to do? According to the article “ Top Five Reasons To Stop Animal Testing” on peta.org it’s bad science. The food and drug administration reports that 92 out of every 100 drugs that passes animal testing fail in humans. It’s unethical to sentence 100 million thinking, feeling animals to life in a laboratory cage and intentionally cause them pain, loneliness, and fear. It’s wasteful. Animal experiments prolong the suffering of people waiting for effective cures by misleading experimenters and squandering precious money, time, and resources that could have been spent on human-relevant research. It’s archaic. Forward-thinking scientists have developed humane, modern, and