Why Is Animal Testing Wrong

Animals have been around for more than a million years and each kind of animal is beautiful and important to contributing to the world. People question the existence of animals. Some say they were created to be companions for man and others conclude them as sacrifices for nourishment. However, nowhere does it state that animals were created for experimentation. Nowhere does it say it’s okay to make animals suffer for the purpose of cosmetics, drugs, or household cleaners. Experimentation on animals is wrong and should be stopped immediately.
First Reason For this reason, experimentation on animals is unethical. Animals suffer pain, loneliness, and fear through the whole process of being experimented on. What is even worse is they are killed immediately after being tested on or reused for another test. Some of the common animal procedures include forced chemical exposure in toxicity testing infliction of wounds, burns and other injuries to study healing, and food and water deprivation. As described, the animals are not treated as animals, but as inanimate objects
violating the moral rule. These procedures sound similar to how Nazis were treated in the Holocaust, so if the people were able to see the Holocaust was wrong and put an end to it, we should the same for animal testing. Therefore, experimentation of animals should either be made as humane as possible or preferably be stopped entirely.
Second Reason To continue, animal testing is inefficient and wasteful.
Huge amounts of money go into experiments, but many experiments fail to work on their sole purpose. According to The Food and Drug Administration, 92 out of every 100 drugs that pass animal tests fail in humans. In one case, surgeons thought they had perfected radial keratotomy by using rabbits. However, the procedure blinded the first human patient, because the human cornea can only regenerate on the surface, unlike how the rabbit cornea is able to regenerate on the underside. This one of many other failure, comes to show how people and animals can be affected negatively because of inapplicable and money wasting experiments. People don’t realise that when they hurt animals they are also hurting themselves. The solution to this is having the money that is used for experimentation on animals be transferred to more reliable and important
research. To end my reasoning, there are other methods to fill in the need for animal testing. Forward-thinking scientists have developed humane, modern, and effective non-animal research methods. This is the chance to set animals free from cruelty caused by us humans. One method is in vitro testing, which is the use of “organs-on-chips” that hold human cells able to mimic the structure and function of human organs and organ systems. These chips created by Harvard’s Wyss Institute can be used instead of animals in disease, drug, or toxicity research. Animals should not be sacrificing their lives when there are other methods, like the one described above, that require no living organism to suffer physically and mentally. Therefore, these methods can offer the solution of ending animal experimentation and more animals can have the opportunity to live a better and healthier life. All things considered, there should be an end to animals being experimented on. The reason is it violates morality, most of the time tests fail, and there are other solutions. No animal should have to suffer for unreliable tests that are often inapplicable to humans, especially when there are computer based methods to replace that job. Animals should be given the opportunity to live the life they want and no one should have the right to decide the purpose of any animal’s life.