The History Of Animal Testing

It is common for labels on the back of medication bottles to read “not tested on animals.” Animal testing has been proven to be cruel and unusual punishment. Some studies have suggested that the testing of products on animals had no relevance or solid reasoning behind it. Imagine humans taking the place of animals and being deemed a science project. In the early 1900’s medical research was still on the rise and resources for medical treatment and testing was limited. Studies were comprised of the actual subject. In many cases the subject was a human being that was under the microscope for a rare or unexplainable disease.
In 1932 an experiment known as “The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male” was conducted by the public