According to statistics on AnimaltestingFacts.zoomshare.com, over 70 million animals in the U.S are forced to be burned, blinded, and fed chemicals for cosmetics, household products, and government agencies. The products that we use everyday such as make up and soap are first tested on dogs, cats, rats, bunnies, and other animals unless it is stated otherwise. These tests are done on animals first because they need to know if the product will harm their customers. Some people are not against animal testing and some are and I am definitely one of those people who are against animal testing. According to the Animal Welfare Act of 1966 these tests are not obliged or needed for product testing, but companies do it in secret to protect themselves from getting sued.
Animal testing should be illegal because animals have rights to life and the testing results would be inaccurate due to animals being different species than humans. The Food and Drug Administration reports,”92 out of every 100 drugs that pass on animals fail on humans". Animals have the right to live without being tested on. Animals have souls, they sense fear, feel pain, show emotion, and build relationships just like humans do. Animals are man's best friend, they are innocent. I believe that Human beings and many animals have similar organ systems and body processes. Experiments on animals supposedly help increase the knowledge on how the human body works . In the United States, scientists perform experiments on more than twenty million animals each year, which is too many animals. Finally, it has been proven they scientist can now test the products for our safety on other subjects besides animals. They are more expensive and take longer observations so not many scientists use it because they want to keep their profit. It is difficult for anyone to justify animal testing simply as a means of maintaining corporate profits. They use animals to study the causes of