Why Is Animal Testing Wrong

According to Peta.org “each year more than 100 million animals are tested and killed in laboratories.” Animal testing is an extreme issue that has been going on for many years. Testing animals is extremely wrong in many ways. First, animal testing is cruel and inhumane. Innocent animals are tested on in labs and are most often killed. Also, animal testing is expensive and a waste of money. Outrageous amounts of money is spent on animal testing that could be used for more useful things like water, shelter, and food for the needy. Lastly, animals and humans are extremely different physically and emotionally causing any data from animals to be unreliable. These are just some reasons why animal testing does more harm than good.

Animal testing is extremely inhumane causing many animals to die every year. According to DownToEarth.org animals are forced to suffer though chemicals being injected into there body, drug addiction, and even
Many tests take a few months or even years to conduct causing the price of experiments to be unbearably high. According to Hsi.org some tests could cost hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars. This money being used is a waste if barely any of the tests outcomes work on humans. The money being used on animal testing could go towards helping people with struggling with poverty or even finding new ways to test for medicines and cures.

Lastly, animal testing is unreliable. Animals and humans are two very different species with different brains and bodies. According to CrueltyFreeInternational.org “Chocolate, grapes, raisins, and avocados are harmless in people but toxic to dogs.” This shows that outcomes of tests done on animals could be be completely different than the outcome with humans. A test to cure cancer could work on a dog but could kill a human. Animals and humans are extremely different in many ways and many tests that fail on animals could maybe be a cure for