Animal Testing Vs Commercial Testing
Should animals be used for scientific or commercial testing? From at least 1948, animals are being used by the U.S space program for testing aspects of space travel. Animals are used to help in medical treatments, determining the toxicity of medications, checking the safety of products for humans, and other commercial and biomedical uses. Though many say that there is no alternative method for researching a living organism, animals are so different from humans that the results are mostly irrelevant. Therefore animals should have the right to not be used for scientific and commercial use.
Animal testing is rather inhumane and cruel to animals. Animals are experimented on by force feeding, deprivation of food and water, forced inhalation, to …show more content…
This is a waste to the government's research money. Instead of using this money on promising non-animal studies which is actually more relevant to humans, the federal government and many other health charities are wasting money on animal experiments. Most of the hard-earned money we pay to the government as taxpayer dollars is being wasted on being able to pay for cruel experiments on animals in laboratories. The U.S National Institutes of health approximately spends $14 million dollars of its $31 million budget on animal research. As the Humane Society International compared the money spent on animal research as to the money spent on other methods, they were able to find a huge difference as for the money and of how relevant it was to humans. An example would be when an “unscheduled DNA synthesis” animal test costs up to $32,000, while the “in vitro” alternative costs up to $11,000. Another example is the “rat phototoxicity test” which has the cost of $11,500 whereas the non-animal test is $1300. To cut down on the money the government is wasting on animal testing, at the very least cuts on useless or impractical experiments like drug abuse, obesity, and addiction should be made. Therefore, due to the money wasted each year on animal testing, animals should not be used to test on. Alternative methods instead of animal testing is to be used to help in creating more relevant results and helps reduce the money spent by the government on animal
Animal testing is rather inhumane and cruel to animals. Animals are experimented on by force feeding, deprivation of food and water, forced inhalation, to …show more content…
This is a waste to the government's research money. Instead of using this money on promising non-animal studies which is actually more relevant to humans, the federal government and many other health charities are wasting money on animal experiments. Most of the hard-earned money we pay to the government as taxpayer dollars is being wasted on being able to pay for cruel experiments on animals in laboratories. The U.S National Institutes of health approximately spends $14 million dollars of its $31 million budget on animal research. As the Humane Society International compared the money spent on animal research as to the money spent on other methods, they were able to find a huge difference as for the money and of how relevant it was to humans. An example would be when an “unscheduled DNA synthesis” animal test costs up to $32,000, while the “in vitro” alternative costs up to $11,000. Another example is the “rat phototoxicity test” which has the cost of $11,500 whereas the non-animal test is $1300. To cut down on the money the government is wasting on animal testing, at the very least cuts on useless or impractical experiments like drug abuse, obesity, and addiction should be made. Therefore, due to the money wasted each year on animal testing, animals should not be used to test on. Alternative methods instead of animal testing is to be used to help in creating more relevant results and helps reduce the money spent by the government on animal