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The Case Against Animal Testing

Animal testing results in the annual death of over 115 million animals due to cruel and painful experiments conducted for cosmetics and medicine safety. Advances in science have led to the development of cruelty-free testing methods, such as cell and tissue cultures, which eliminate the need for animal testing. Ethical considerations demand a worldwide prohibition of animal testing, as it is both unnecessary and inhumane.

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The Case Against Animal Testing

Animal testing results in the annual death of over 115 million animals due to cruel and painful experiments conducted for cosmetics and medicine safety. Advances in science have led to the development of cruelty-free testing methods, such as cell and tissue cultures, which eliminate the need for animal testing. Ethical considerations demand a worldwide prohibition of animal testing, as it is both unnecessary and inhumane.

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Animal Testing: Necessary or Obsolete?

Annually, more than 115 million animals are killed in laboratory experiments. Among

them, there are mices, rabbits, hamsters, monkeys, dogs, cats, and many other species. Numerous

businesses choose to test their cosmetics, medicines or other substances on animals. These tests

aim to identify possible adverse reactions to the substances in their formulas or to prove their

effectiveness. The animal’s chances of survival are almost null. As it is extremely cruel to do it

with innocent lives, animal testing should be prohibited worldwide.

In laboratories, animals are cruelly mistreated and are submitted to painful experiments.

Plenty of them are kept in small confined spaces with limited mobility. They are subjected to

tests that cause discomfort and agony, such as injecting toxic substances, surgical procedures,

wounds and burn inflictions. It can result in eye or skin irritations, burns, mutilations, or

poisonings. The animals only have two fates if they do not die quickly due to these experiments:

to be subjected to testing again or to be killed for their bodies to be studied. In other words, the

animal has no other option but to suffer and die.

Scientific advances allowed the development of reliable cruelty free testing methods,

being no longer necessary to conduct tests on animals. As an example, there is the cell and tissue

culture, where human or animal cells are grown in a controlled environment. So, the substances

are tested on these samples without the need to harm animals. Moreover, technology can

contribute to end animal testing. Advanced softwares can nowadays indicate possible adverse

reactions of a substance to the human body with a high degree of accuracy.

Some people believe that animal testing provides safety to products. That is

understandable, since some animals share approximately 90% of the genetic material as human
beings. However, with scientific advances, there are methods to recreate the same human genetic

material and conduct safe experiments without animal cruelty. It means that it is even safer to

test substances in human cells grown in a laboratory, composed 100% of human genetic material,

than to use animals as test subjects.

For ethical reasons, it is necessary that animal testing be prohibited worldwide. Animals

also feel pain and need to be respected as living beings. Cruelty-free testing is a possible

alternative in the present, since science allowed the discovery of methods such as cell and tissue

cultivation and technological softwares. Therefore, it is unacceptable that millions of animals

continue to die in laboratories every year.

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