Animal Testing Should Not Be Banned - 1227 Words

Each year in the United States alone, an estimated number of seventy million animals are injured or killed in order for private institutes, household product companies, military training programs, medical research’s, cosmetic industries, educational institutes and governmental agencies to gain knowledge of their own products and narrow out the harmful substances for consumers, All of which has been done at an innocent animal’s expense. Even though these companies have alternative choices to test on rather than animals, they choose to run animal trials due to the lack of rules and regulations to follow when it comes to animal safety. In our society, people seem to find it acceptable to turn a blind eye to these tests, but if the same number†¦show more content†¦However, simply because great strides are being made in science does not mean that the ends justify the means. The number of successes are very low, possibly due to the fact that animal experiments are un reliable and can be dangerously misleading because the animal’s bodies are notably different from our own, and they don’t contract the same diseases and symptoms as we do. Animal experimentation is not required to advance medical science in modern society, as these experiments are too unreliable at best, and fatally dangerous at worst, there’s not much else we could possibly gain from these trials any more. Some of these companies even have alternative choices to test on rather than animals, but the law doesn’t require they be used no matter how valid they are. Laws also state that no experimental test is illegal in regards to performing the test on animals, meaning no matter how cruel or irrelevant to human health the lab test is, there’s nothing we can do to stop it as long as they say it’s for research purposes. The real sickening part, however, is that ninety five percent of animals used in experiments are excluded from the only federal law that we’ve set in order for any sort of protection for these animals. The Animal Welfare Act (AWA) requires the minimal standards and treatment be provided for certain animals bred for the use of commercial sale, in research, transported commercially, or exhibited publicly. Giving test animals