Reasons Why Animal Testing Should Be Banned

“Humans and animals have the same destiny, One dies just like the other. All of them have the same breath of life. Humans have no advantage over animals. All of life is pointless. All life goes to the same place. All life comes from the ground, and all of it goes back to the ground.” Ecclesiastes 3:19-20 (Bible) Now, what is animal testing? Well, animal testing is any scientific test or experiment in which a life animal is forced to undergo something that is likely to cause pain, suffering, distress, lasting harm, and/or death. Animal testing should be banned, some reasons of why it to be banned are; it’s inhumane, humans and animals have different DNA, and only a few medical breakthroughs came from animal testing. One reason why animal testing is inhumane is that animals are similar to us humans. For example, from the article, “The long fight against animal testing” by Peter Tatchell, it said, “Macaques (And other monkeys) are intelligent, social animals, language, reasoning, emotions, improvisation, planning, empathy, tool-use, and the capacity to feel both physical and psychological pain.” This proves that animals are just humans, just in their own world. Another thing that makes it inhumane is that the animals are locked in Solitary Confinement, or locked in a cell alone. Now,
In the Article, The long fight against Animal testing, by Peter Tatchell, it said, “The medical breakthroughs from animal testing (Including blood transfusions, insulin, anesthetics, penicillin antibiotics) could have been done through non-animal experimentation if it had been equally well funded. Also from that exact same article, it said, “There are 700 treatments for stroke that work in laboratory animals, but only 1 worked on humans.” This proves that testing on animals isn’t beneficial to humans. Therefore, testing on animals for medical breakthroughs is completely