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Ending Animal Testing: Humane Alternatives

Millions of animals are confined to barren cages in laboratories and subjected to painful procedures without enrichment, causing stress-related behaviors. While some animal testing is legally required, most is not, and non-animal test methods exist that are more humane and relevant for humans. Several countries have banned testing certain products like cosmetics on animals.

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Ending Animal Testing: Humane Alternatives

Millions of animals are confined to barren cages in laboratories and subjected to painful procedures without enrichment, causing stress-related behaviors. While some animal testing is legally required, most is not, and non-animal test methods exist that are more humane and relevant for humans. Several countries have banned testing certain products like cosmetics on animals.

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Right now, millions of mice, rats, rabbits, primates, cats, dogs, and other animals are

locked inside barren cages in laboratories across the country. They languish in pain,
suffer from extreme frustration, ache with loneliness, and long to be free.

Instead, all they can do is sit and wait in fear of the next terrifying and painful
procedure that will be performed on them. The complete lack of environmental
enrichment and the stress of their living situation cause some animals to develop
neurotic types of behavior such as incessantly spinning in circles, rocking back and
forth, pulling out their own fur, and even biting themselves. After enduring a life of pain,
loneliness, and terror, almost all of them will be killed.

There are many non-animal test methods that can be used in place of animal testing.
Not only are these non-animal tests more humane, they also have the potential to be
cheaper, faster, and more relevant to humans.

While some of the experimentation conducted on animals today is required by law, most
of it isn’t. In fact, a number of countries have implemented bans on the testing of certain
types of consumer goods on animals, such as the cosmetics-testing bans in the
European Union, India, Israel, New Zealand, Norway, and elsewhere.

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