The Pros And Cons Of Animal Experiments

How would you feel if you were captured in a laboratory and forced to smell toxic fumes until death? Or immobilized in a restraining device for hours? Or have your skin burned off and spinal cord crushed? This is the reality for more than 100 million animals worldwide. In Canada, over 3.33 million animals are used in experiments and over 125 000 are subjected to severe pain. The animals are left for days to wait in fear of the next terrifying and traumatic experiment that will be performed on them. Major effects of stress and boredom trigger neurotic behaviors in the animals these include spinning in circles, rocking back and forth, pulling out their own hair and biting their own skin. Days go by, and after being locked in their tiny cages filled with fear, their journey usually ends with death. Animals are said to be used for advances and safety checks in products, but are the tests truly
Therefore most of these animal tests are inaccurate. Diseases that may develop in humans are genetically engineered differently than any other animal. This relates back to the unethical side, as millions of animals are being tortuously killed just to be disposed of. Animal tests have no way of predicting the outcomes or results on a human, medical treatment is very specific to the individual being treated. Prescribed medicines are unique and are tweaked to work for that human specifically, testing on a whole new species does not effectively correspond to the human body.
Along with animal testing, comes many newly developed tests that do not involve animals in any way. Scientific advances have led some companies to thankfully turning to a cruelty-free approach. Some of these companies include Lush, NYX, Smashbox, Aveda