Animal Testing Should Be Banned In The US

Animal testing uses thousands to millions of dollars of taxpayer’s money but, in many cases it has been proven that animal experimentation has little or no scientific relevance. Each year, animals are being tested to show the effectiveness and safety of products, such as cosmetics, but how about if it’s not effective at all. How about it is a waste of time and money? Thousands of animals are experimented on that don’t grant assurance for humans. Animal testing should be banned in the U.S. because the genetic differences between humans and animals are tremendously wide. Animal testing has proven to give vary results for humans. As neurologist Aysha Akhtar, says “over 100 stroke drugs that were effective when tested on animals have failed in
Some medications are not necessarily safe for humans even if it provides positive results in animals. In 950, there was a pill called the sleeping pill that caused 10,000 babies to be brought into this world with severe deformities which was tested prior to it’s commercial release. Another drug called Vioxx which is a arthritis medication showed that it provided a protective effect on an animal’s heart, yet the drug went on to cause more than 27,000 heart attacks and sudden cardiac deaths before it was finally pulled off the market. Rezulin or as some know it as troglitazone was approved by the FDA in 1997. The drug was intended to treat adult onset type 2 diabetes. Rezulin did indeed lower the blood sugar pressure in rats without negative effects, but later the animals reportedly began to have severe and sometimes fatal liver failure. The medication still hit the market and was not withdrawn until 2000 after it causes more than 400 deaths, but only because Los Angeles Times did an intensive investigation which caused them to change their label four times. Despite, all the drugs out there that has caused harm to humans animal testing still continues. Can you imagine all the drugs that could have helped the people in the world if we were actually able to get relevant results. Results that are actually beneficial and 100% guaranteed to work for humans. The percentage rate of a medication to actually been effective on humans is extremely low. 10% that is the percent we are suppose to rely on; the percentage that is used to predict a cure for diseases. Even the supposed animals that best replicate to us can still give us false results. For example, TGN1412 was tested on monkeys, rats, and rabbits and the results were positive for the medication to work, but in the human clinical trials, the subjects began to scream in agony. The drug was suppose to increase the immune responses to a virus, but instead it