Essay Facts About Animal Testing

Each year, more than a hundred million animals are tested on. Of those hundred million, 95% of them are not protected by the Animal Welfare Act (11 Facts About Animal Testing). This act is meant to protect animals by setting standards of care that animals must be provided, which includes: housing, handling, sanitation, food, water, veterinary care, and protection from extreme weather conditions. Even animals that are protected, suffer from abuse and torture. Most of the animals used in testing are rats, mice, fish and birds which are poorly treated, tortured, and abused. Some of these tests conducted on these animals are for cosmetics, and for the procedure, the animals are skin and eye irritation tests where chemicals are rubbed on shaved skin or dripped into the eyes without any pain relief. Furthermore, animals that are protected, such as living or dead cats, dogs, hamsters, rabbits, guinea pigs and any other nonhuman primate, are protected under the Animal Welfare Act. Despite this protection, there have been several cases of animal abuse. Any animal subjected to animal testing are faced with force feeding, forced inhalation, food and water deprivation, prolonged periods of physical restraint, the infliction of burns and other wounds to study the healing process, the
Of the drugs that pass animal testings, 95% of drugs fail in human clinical trials whether it be from safety grounds or simply not working (Cruelty Free International). A 2013 study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) found that nearly 150 clinical trials (human tests) of treatments to reduce inflammation in critically ill patients have been undertaken, and all of them failed, despite being successful in animal tests (Animal Testing - ProCon.org). Some chemicals and drugs that may be harmful to humans are not necessarily harmful to animals, and vice